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Sébastien Peyrouse

Associate researcher

Sébastien Peyrouse is a senior research fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies programme, a joint centre affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. He takes part in the FRIDE-run EUCAM programme since 2008. He is also an associated fellow at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations, Paris. He was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute for Central Asia Studies in Tashkent (1998-2000 and 2002-2005).

His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia, Islam and religious minorities, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China, India and South Asia. In English, he has published China as a Neighbor. Central Asian Perspectives and Strategies (with M. Laruelle, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, 2009), and “The Economic Aspects of the Chinese-Central-Asia Rapprochement” (Silk Road Papers, 2007).

Geo tags

Central Asia and Russia

Expert in

China Islam Russia 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

• 24/10/2011 - Human security in Central Asia: can the EU help out?

• 26/07/2011 - Security and Islam in Asia: lessons from China's Uyghur minority

• 03/11/2009 - The multiple paradoxes of the agriculture issue in Central Asia

• 13/10/2009 - Central Asia's growing partnership with China

• 18/06/2009 - Business and trade relationships between the EU and Central Asia

• 28/01/2009 - Facing the challenges of separatism: the EU, Central Asia and the Uyghur issue

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