This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.

Roberto Colombo is a doctoral researcher in Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow. He is co-author of Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation (2021).

Emil A. Souleimanov is a full professor at the Department of Security Studies, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. He is author of Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict (2013) and co-author of Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation (2021).