Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse

Senior Research Fellow

Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., and the ISDP, Stockholm.

He is an Associated Scholar with the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS, Paris), and with the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE, Madrid) and a member of the Brussels-based EUCAM (Europe-Central Asia Monitoring). He was a doctoral and postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute for Central Asia Studies in Tashkent (1998-2000 and 2002-2005), a Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University in Sapporo (2006), and a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington (2006-2007). He holds a Ph.D. at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Cultures in Paris.

Sébastien Peyrouse has authored or co-authored seven books on Central Asia in French. He is the author of Turkmenistan. Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2011), and the co-author of The ‘Chinese Question' in Central Asia. Domestic Order, Social Changes, and the Chinese Factor (London, New York: Hurst, Columbia University Press, February 2012).He has also 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.sebastienpeyrouse.com/