Marlène Laruelle
Marlène Laruelle (born 21 December 1972) is a French historian, sociologist, and political scientist specializing on Eurasia and Europe.[1] She is Research Professor and Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University (GW). Laruelle is also a Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia),[2] Director of GW’s Central Asia Program,[3] and Director of GW's Illiberalism Studies Program.[4] She received her Ph.D. in history at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO) and spent time as a post-doc in the area of political science at Sciences-Po in Paris. She is Senior Associate Scholar at the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI).[5] Her particular focus of interest is post-Soviet political, social and cultural developments, especially ideologies and nationalism.
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Books
Monographs
- 2018 Russian Nationalism. Imaginaries, Doctrines and Political Battlefields, London: Routledge, available in Open Access.
- 2018 Understanding Russia. The Challenges of Transformation, Lanham, Boulder, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, co-authored with Jean Radvanyi.
- 2014 Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2014).
- 2012 Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, hard cover 2008, paperback 2012).
- 2012 Globalizing Central Asia. Geopolitics And The Challenges Of Economic Development (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2012), co-authored with Sebastien Peyrouse.
- 2012 The ‘Chinese Question’ in Central Asia. Domestic Order, Social Changes, and the Chinese Factor (London/New York: Columbia University Press and Hurst, 2012), co-authored with Sebastien Peyrouse.
- 2009 In the Name of the Nation. Nationalism and Politics in contemporary Russia (New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2009).
Edited Volumes
- 2019 The Nazarbayev Generation. Youth in Kazakhstan. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- 2018 Entangled Far Rights. A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the 20th century, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press.
- 2018 Tajikistan on the Move. Statebuilding and Societal Transformations. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- 2018 Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World. Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, co-edited with Peter Rollberg.
- 2018 Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics, and Identities. London and Leiden: Brill.
- 2018 Constructing the Uzbek State. Narratives of the Post-Soviet Years. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- 2017 The Central Asia–Afghanistan Relationship. From Soviet Intervention to the Silk Road Initiatives, Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- 2016 Kazakhstan in the Making. Legitimacy, Symbols and Social Changes, Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- 2016 New Mobilities and Social Changes in Russia’s Arctic Regions, London: Routledge.
- 2015 Kyrgyzstan beyond ‘Democracy Island’ and ‘Failing State’: Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society, Lanham, MD: Lexington, co-edited with Johan Engval.
- 2015 Eurasianism and the European Far-right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship (Lexington Books, 2015).
- 2015 Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), co-edited with Mark Bassin and Sergei Glebov.
- 2011 Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies (Farnham, UK: Asghate, 2011), with Sebastien Peyrouse.
- 2010 China and India in Central Asia. A new “Great Game”? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), with Jean-François Huchet, Sébastien Peyrouse, Bayram Balci.
- 2010 Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia (London: Routledge, hard cover 2009, paperback 2010).