Marlène Laruelle (; born 21 December 1972,
Maisons-Alfort
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) is a French
historian
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,
sociologist, and
political scientist
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specializing on Eurasia and Europe.
She is Research Professor and Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the
George Washington University
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(GW). Laruelle is also a co-director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia), Director of GW's Central Asia Program, and Director of GW's Illiberalism Studies Program. 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
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in Paris. She is Senior Associate Scholar at the
Institut français des relations internationales
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Overview
Ifri was establi ...
(IFRI). Her particular focus of interest is
post-Soviet
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political, social and cultural developments, especially ideologies and nationalism. She is the daughter of the French philosopher
François Laruelle
François Laruelle (; ; 22 August 1937 – 28 October 2024) was a French philosopher, of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Laruelle began publishing in the early 1970s and had around twenty book-l ...
.
Books
Monographs
* 2021 ''Is Russia Fascist?: Unraveling Propaganda East and West''. Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-1501754135
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* 2018 ''Russian Nationalism. Imaginaries, Doctrines and Political Battlefields'', London: Routledge, available i
Open Access
* 201
Understanding Russia. The Challenges of Transformation
Lanham, Boulder, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, co-authored with Jean Radvanyi.
* 201
Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North
(New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2014).
* 201
Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire
(Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, hard cover 2008, paperback 2012).
* 201
Globalizing Central Asia. Geopolitics And The Challenges Of Economic Development
(New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2012), co-authored with Sebastien Peyrouse.
* 201
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.
* 200
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.
* 201
Tajikistan on the Move. Statebuilding and Societal Transformations
Lanham, MD: Lexington.
* 201
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.
* 201
Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics, and Identities
London and Leiden: Brill.
* 201
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.
* 201
Kazakhstan in the Making. Legitimacy, Symbols and Social Changes
Lanham, MD: Lexington.
* 201
New Mobilities and Social Changes in Russia’s Arctic Regions
London: Routledge.
* 201
Kyrgyzstan beyond ‘Democracy Island’ and ‘Failing State’: Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society
Lanham, MD: Lexington, co-edited with Johan Engval.
* 201
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.
* 201
Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies
(Farnham, UK: Asghate, 2011), with Sebastien Peyrouse.
* 201
China and India in Central Asia. A new “Great Game”?
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), with Jean-François Huchet, Sébastien Peyrouse, Bayram Balci.
* 201
Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia
(London: Routledge, hard cover 2009, paperback 2010).
References
External links
Marlene Laruelle
— official website
Laruelle, Marlene , Elliott School of International Affairs , The George Washington University
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21st-century French historians
French political scientists
French sociologists
French women sociologists
1972 births
Living people
French women political scientists
French women historians