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Marlène Laruelle

Associate Researcher

Marlène Laruelle is a researcher within the FRIDE managed EUCAM programme. She is also visiting research fellow at the Russian and Eurasian Studies programme, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC; and an associate scholar at the French Center for Russian, Caucasian and East European Studies, School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS), and at the Post-Soviet Studies Department at Sciences Po, Paris.

She has expertise in Russian and Central Asian foreign policy think tanks and academia, and in Russian policy towards Central Asia. Her main areas of expertise are nationalism, national identities, political philosophy, intellectual trends and geopolitical conceptions of local elites in Russia and Central Asia. Her English-language publications include Russian Eurasianism. An Ideology of Empire (Woodrow Wilson Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); In the Name of the Nation. Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (Palgrave, 2009); and Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia (ed., Routledge, 2009).

Geo tags

Central Asia and Russia

Expert in

Afghanistan Conflict Development Security

Spoken languages

English, French, Russian

Written languages

English, French, Russian

Expert publications

• 08/05/2012 - Security and development in Central Asia: EU, Russian and Chinese policies compared

• 22/08/2011 - Involving Central Asia in Afghanistan's future - what can Europe do?

• 22/06/2011 - Why the EU needs to engage Russia on Asian security

• 13/06/2011 - Central Asian Islamism in the spotlight

• 14/12/2009 - The Growing Illiteracy in Central Asia: A Challenge for the EU

• 05/10/2009 - Russia in Central Asia: Old History, New Challenges?

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