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Overview

Marlène Laruelle is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focused expertise in Sociology and Political Science, as well as Political Science and International Relations. Their work also touches on Social Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research explores several interconnected topics including:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Eastern European Communism and Reforms
  • Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Arctic and Russian Policy Studies

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications in prominent venues such as:

  • Nationalities Papers
  • Journal of Illiberalism Studies
  • Problems of Post-Communism
  • East European Politics
  • Post-Soviet Affairs

Some recent papers authored by Marlène Laruelle include:

  • "Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction," 2022, East European Politics
  • "Making Sense of Russia's Illiberalism," 2020, Journal of democracy
  • "Beyond "hybrid warfare": a digital exploration of Russia's entrepreneurs of influence," 2021, Post-Soviet Affairs

Frequent co-authors in their work include Henry E. Hale, Kévin Limonier, Eliot Borenstein, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, and Margarita Karnysheva.

Marlène Laruelle has contributed to the academic literature through several book publications across various publishers. Notable works include:

  • "Is Russia Fascist?" (2021), published twice by Cornell University Press eBooks
  • "Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War" (2020), Bloomsbury Academic eBooks
  • "The History of Birobidzhan" (2023), Bloomsbury Academic eBooks
  • "Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime" (2024), Stanford University Press eBooks
  • "Central Peripheries" (2021), UCL Press
  • "La pensée réactionnaire est-elle de retour?" (2025), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Best Publications

  • In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia

    Marlène Laruelle

  • Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire

    Marlène Laruelle;Mischa Gabowitsch

  • Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction

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  • The three colors of Novorossiya, or the Russian nationalist mythmaking of the Ukrainian crisis

    Marlene Laruelle

  • The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change, and the Chinese Factor

    Marlène Laruelle;Sébastien Peyrouse

  • Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development

    Marlene Laruelle;Sebastien Peyrouse

  • Russia as a “Divided Nation,” from Compatriots to Crimea: A Contribution to the Discussion on Nationalism and Foreign Policy

    Marlene Laruelle

  • In the Name of the Nation

    Marlène Laruelle

  • The two faces of contemporary Eurasianism: an imperial version of Russian nationalism

    Marlène Laruelle

  • Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia

    Marlène Laruelle

  • L'idéologie eurasiste russe ou Comment penser l'Empire

    Marlène Laruelle

  • Discussing Neopatrimonialism and Patronal Presidentialism in the Central Asian Context

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Central Asian Labor Migrants in Russia: The "Diasporization" of the Central Asian States?

    Marlène Laruelle

  • Russia as an anti-liberal European civilisation

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments

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  • The Return of the Aryan Myth: Tajikistan in Search of a Secularized National Ideology

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism

    Mark Bassin;Sergey Glebov;Marlene Laruelle

  • The paradigm of nationalism in Kyrgyzstan. Evolving narrative, the sovereignty issue, and political agenda

    Marlène Laruelle

  • Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Alexei Navalny and challenges in reconciling “nationalism” and “liberalism”

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Making Sense of Russia's Illiberalism

    Marlene Laruelle

  • Untangling the puzzle of “Russia’s influence” in Kazakhstan

    Marlene Laruelle;Dylan Royce;Serik Beyssembayev

  • The Izborsky Club, or the New Conservative Avant-Garde in Russia

    Marlene Laruelle

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry E. Hale
Henry E. Hale George Washington University
Alexander Cooley
Alexander Cooley Barnard College
Igor Esau
Igor Esau University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Joshua A. Tucker
Joshua A. Tucker New York University
Theodore P. Gerber
Theodore P. Gerber University of Wisconsin–Madison

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