Cet ouvrage, paru récemment chez Stanford University Press, analyse l'évolution des récits, thèmes et stratégies idéologiques de la Russie postsoviétique. Il montre comment le pouvoir russe sous Vladimir Poutine oscille entre recherche d'un consensus national organique et imposition d'une idéologie d'État par le haut en réaction aux crises internes et aux pressions extérieures.Depuis trois décennies, le récit national russe est porté par une pluralité d'acteurs incarnant la coexiste...

Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits' clichés that depict the Russian regime as either a cynical kleptocracy or the product of Putin's grand Machiavellian designs, Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime offers a critical genealogy of ideology in Russia today. Marlene Laruelle provides an innovative, multi-method analy...

The European Union in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of EU interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia and analyzes the broad outlines of EU engagement over the coming years. It is part of a six-part CSIS series, “Eurasia from the Outside In,” which includes studies focusing on Turkey, the European Union, Iran, India, Russia, and China.

Le but de cet ouvrage est de faire le point, près de quinze ans après la chute de l'Union soviétique, sur les évolutions en cours dans cet espace, en mettant l'accent sur la question religieuse et ses liens avec le politique. Cette imbrication du religieux, du politique et du national s'inscrit dans des processus généraux, au travers desquels les sociétés post-soviétiques ont été jusqu'ici trop rarement analysées. Ces thématiques permettront d'amorcer une réflexion plus générale concernant...

In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same time Russia has branded itself as...

Since the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, Russia’s support to the European far right—and to a variety of populist leaders more globally—has become a cornerstone of the West’s perception of Moscow as a “spoiler” on the international scene. The fact that Russia’s most fervent supporters are now to be found on the right of the ideological spectrum should not be a surprise. The European far right has always had Russophile tendencies, but these were obscured during the Cold War, when rightist politic...

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Russia's Arctic strategy, ranging from climate change issues and territorial disputes to energy policy and domestic challenges. As the receding polar ice increases the accessibility of the Arctic region, rival powers have been manoeuvering for geopolitical and resource security. Geographically, Russia controls half of the Arctic coastline, 40 percent of the land area beyond the Circumpolar North, and three quarters of the Arctic popul...

Guerre d’août 2008 entre la Géorgie et la Russie pour le contrôle sur les républiques sécessionnistes d’Ossétie du Sud et d’Abkhazie, conflits interethniques entre Kirghizes et Ouzbeks au sud du Kirghizstan en juin 2010, départ des troupes occidentales d’Afghanistan en 2014… : le Caucase, l’Asie centrale et l’Afghanistan ne cessent d’occuper l’actualité internationale et de susciter l’attention inquiète du reste du monde. Les connaissances sur ces « éclats d’empires » se sont considérablem...

Le second mandat de Trump est marqué par son ambition idéologique. Conservatrice et remettant constamment en cause l'État de droit démocratique, cette pensée réactionnaire se fait entendre bien au-delà des États-Unis. Il est essentiel d'en comprendre les ressorts et les logiques, d'analyser ce qui charpente ces mouvements illibéraux dont l'ampleur ne cesse de croître ? Dans cet univers idélogique aux contours lâches, la convergence des haines est alimentée par quelques traits communs. L'éc...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia's Arctic policies since the 2022 war with Ukraine began. Covering geopolitical transformations, domestic evolutions and the role of climate change, it traces how, for around two decades, Russia has renewed its strategic interest in the Arctic region. It reflects on how, with more than half of the circumpolar territories, Russia's Arctic regions generate between 10 and 15% of Russia's GDP and a quarter of its exports, wi...

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today.The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another hi...

Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the transformations of the region as a whole. And yet, more than 25 years after the collapse of the Sovi...