Dr. Marlène Laruelle

Senior Research Fellow

Marlène Laruelle is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program. She is also the Director of the Central Asia Program at George Washington University and a Research Professor of International Affairs, The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC.

She is an Associate Scholar at Sciences Po (the Institute of Political Studies, Paris), at the French Center for Russian, Caucasian and East-European Studies (CERCEC) at the School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS, Paris), at the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE, Madrid) and a member of the Brussels-based EUCAM (Europe-Central Asia Monitoring). She was a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2005-2006). She holds a Ph.D. at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures in Paris.

On Russia, her main areas of expertise are political and social evolutions, identity issues, nationalism, citizenship and migration. She has published Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Woodrow Wilson Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (Palgrave, 2009). She has edited Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia (London: Routledge, hard cover 2009, paperback 2010). She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple projects on Russian think tanks and political networks.

On Central Asia, her main areas of expertise are political and social evolutions, identity issues, and geopolitics. She has co-authored The ‘Chinese Question' in Central Asia. Domestic Order, Social Changes, and the Chinese Factor (London, New York: Hurst, Columbia University Press, February 2012), and co-edited China and India in Central Asia. A new "Great Game"? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2011).

For more information, see http://www.marlenelaruelle.com/