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Marlene Laruelle

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Research Professor; Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES); Director, Central Asia Program; Director, Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-director, PONARS Eurasia

Affiliation

Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

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Expertise

Ideology, Political Philosophy, Nationalism, Far Right, Extremism, Populism, Illiberalism, Great Power Competition, Russia, Europe, Arctic, Central Asia

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Manufacturing Support for War: Russia’s Preppers, Fellow Travelers, and Activist Networks

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The impact on Russia of its war against Ukraine is heavier than President Vladimir Putin anticipated, both in terms of military losses and economic isolation. The…

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Disinformation and Religion on the Russian Scene: Reactionary Politics and Orthodox Fundamentalism

(Berkley Center) The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the production of disinformation on Russia’s media scene. Religion has played a role in this development. The Moscow Patriarchate, which has backed state…

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Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan

Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis By Mariya Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz | March 1, 2021 Despite a history of using discourses of danger…

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Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence

(Post-Soviet Affairs) This article argues that to capture Russia’s influence abroad, one needs to comprehend the country’s “gray diplomacy” as a neoliberal realm open to individual initiatives. We define “entrepreneurs…

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Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

(UCL Press) Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in…

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Russia’s African Toolkit: Digital Influence and Entrepreneurs of Influence

(Orbis) Today, Russian influence on the African continent is still anecdotic compared to the People’s Republic of China, the United States, and former colonial powers, such as France. Yet, Moscow…

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Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence

(Ifri) This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms: Russia’s history and culture; its Soviet legacy;…

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How the Battle Over Collective Memory Will Define Russia’s Place in Europe

(Moscow Times) As the proverb goes, the past tells us above all about the present. The current memory wars between Russia, on the one hand, and Central European countries, led…

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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

(Nationalities Papers) Abstract: A new wave of scholarship has made major advances in how we understand the politics of civilizational identity by drawing powerfully from conceptual tools developed over the years to…

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Accusing Russia of Fascism: Polemics around Russia’s Belonging to Europe

(Russia in Global Affairs) Abstract: With memory wars between Central and Eastern European states and Russia, the Second World War has become a useable past instrumentalized as a currency for legitimacy on…

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