Marie Bennigsen-Broxup is one of the leading Europe

Europe

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an experts on the Caucasus

Caucasus

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 and Central Asia

Central Asia

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, with particular emphasis on Muslim

Muslim

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 communities within these regions. She is a daughter of the Russia

Russia

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n émigré scholar of Islam

Islam

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, Alexandre Bennigsen

Alexandre Bennigsen

Alexandre Bennigsen was a scholar of Islam in the Soviet Union.Bennigsen was born in St Petersburg in 1913...

. Broxup joined the Society for Central Asian Studies in Oxford

Oxford

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 in 1981 and has been edited the London

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-based Central Asian Survey

Central Asian Survey

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 quarterly since then. She also edited Central Asia and Caucasus Chronicle from 1981 to 1990, and served as a consultant on Caucasian affairs to the French ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs. She has traveled to study the situation in Chechnya

Chechnya

The Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...

several times since 1993.

Main works

• The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State (Croom Helm, London, 1983 coauthored with Alexandre Bennigsen)
• The North Caucasus Barrier. The Russian Advance towards the Muslim World (Hurst & Co, London, 1992)