Current Position

Sébastien PEYROUSE Mail: [email protected]

CURRENT POSITION

Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm.

Associated Scholar, Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS, Paris)

Expert for the “European Union-Central Asia Monitoring”, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS, Brussels) and Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE, Madrid), 2008-2010.

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

Visiting Research Fellow, Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’homme and Indian University Grant Commission (October 2009).

Visiting Research Fellow, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (January-April 2009)

Principal Investigator, Smith Richardson Foundation. Project: “Coping with the Russo-Chinese Competition in Central Asia: Local Perspectives and Strategies” (January-December 2008)

Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (October 2006-June 2007)

Research Fellow, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (July-September 2006)

Research Fellow, French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Charge of the Research Program “Religion, Politics and Ethnicity in Post-Soviet Central Asia” (September 2002-August 2005)

Lavoisier Fellow, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Almaty, Kazakhstan (January-June 2002)

Visiting Fellow, French Institute of Anatolian Studies, Istanbul, Turkey (May-August 2001)

Doctoral Fellow, French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (September 1998- October 2000)

Doctoral Fellow, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia (January-March 1998)

M.A. Fellow, French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (June-July 1996, April 1997)

M.A. Fellow, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia (November 1996- March 1997)

FIELDWORKS

Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan), June-July 1996, April 1997, September 1998 – November 2000, September 2002 – August 2005, February-April 2008.

Russia (Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan), November 1996-March 1997, January-March 1998, April 2004, annual stays since 2005.

India (Delhi, Srinagar, Kolkata, and Mumbai), October 2009.

China (Xinjiang, Gansu, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao) and Taipei, May, September-December 2008, July 2009.

Japan (Sapporo, Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima), July-September 2006.

Turkey (Istanbul), May-August 2001.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Managing Editor of The China and Eurasia Forum Quaterly (mid 2009-)

Member of the Editorial Board, Nationalities Papers (2007-), Central Eurasian Reader (2007-), Central Eurasian Studies Review (2005-), Cahiers d'Asie centrale, (2003-)

Referees on articles published in Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Cahiers du monde russe, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, Tiers-monde, Kennan Occasional Papers.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures (INALCO), 2002

M.A., Post-Soviet Studies, INALCO, 1997

B.A., Post-Soviet Studies, INALCO, 1994

CONFERENCES ORGANIZING

“Central Asia, the new ‘Great Game’ between the Emerging Powers of China and India”, October 14- 15, 2009, New Delhi, organized by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (Tashkent), the French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (Hong-Kong), and the French Center for Human Sciences (New Delhi). Proceedings to be published in English.

“ Central Asia/China: From Geopolitics To Partnership”, June 4-5, 2008, Almaty, Kazakhstan, organized by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (Tashkent), the French Center for the

Study of Contemporary China (Hong-Kong), the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (Almaty) and the Institute of Oriental Studies (Almaty). Proceedings published in Russian.

“ Islam, Politics and Nationalism in the former USSR, Comparative Analysis of Russia and Central Asian Republics”, April 1-2, 2004, Kazan, Russia, organized by IFEAC and the Tatarstan Institute of Federalism. Proceedings published in French and in Russian.

EXPERTISE

Working for French consulting firms and private research institutions since 2005, completing special papers and month political reports. Areas of Expertise: Political and social conditions in the five Central Asian republics, The situation of religion, Islam, Islamism, and religious minorities, Geopolitics and geo-economy of Central Asia, International Relations, The rise of Chinese influence and mutual perceptions between China and Central Asia.

LANGUAGES

Fluent French, English, and Russian, Working knowledge in Chinese and German

PUBLICATIONS

1. BOOKS

Des chrétiens entre athéisme et islam: regards sur la question religieuse en Asie centrale soviétique et post-soviétique [Christians Between Atheism and Islam: Studies of Religion in Soviet and Post- Soviet Central Asia], Preface by Patrick Michel, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose/IFEAC, 2003, 406 p.

Les Russes du Kazakhstan. Identités nationales et nouveaux Etats dans l’espace post-soviétique [Russians in Kazakhstan. National Identities and New States in the Post-Soviet Space], co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, Preface by Catherine Poujol, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose/IFEAC, 2004, 354 p.

Asie centrale, la dérive autoritaire [Central Asia, the Drift Towards Authoritarianism], co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, Paris: Autrement/CERI, 2006, 142 p.

Turkménistan. Un destin au carrefour des empires [Turkmenistan: a Destiny at the Crossroads of Empires], Paris: Belin, 2007, 184 p.

Histoire de l’Asie centrale contemporaine [History of Contemporary Central Asia], Paris: Fayard, 2008, 313 p., co-authored with Pierre Chuvin et René Létolle.

L’Asie centrale à l’aune de la mondialisation. Une approche géoéconomique [Central Asia facing globalization. A geoeconomic approach], Paris, Armand Colin, to be published in April 2010, co- authored with Marlène Laruelle.

2. EDITED VOLUMES

With Marlène Laruelle and Bulat Sultanov, Tsentral’naia Aziia i Kitai: sostoianie i perspektivy sotrudnichestva [Central Asia and China: State and Perspectives on Cooperation], Almaty: KISI/IFEAC, 2009, 289 p.

With Marlène Laruelle, Islam et politique en ex-URSS (Russie d'Europe et Asie centrale) [Islam and Politics in the Former Soviet Union (European Russia and Central Asia)], Paris: L'Harmattan/IFEAC, 2005, 338 p. Translated in Russian: Islam, identichnost’ i politika v postsovetskom prostranstve [Islam and Politics in the Former Soviet Union (European Russia and Central Asia)], Kazan: Institute of Federalism, 2005, 251 p.

3. EDITED JOURNALS (SPECIAL ISSUES)

“ Central Asian Perceptions of China,” China and Eurasia Forum Quaterly, vol. 7, no.1, 2009, with Marlène Laruelle, .

“Quinze ans d'indépendance. Les nouveaux enjeux en Asie centrale” [Fifteen Years of Independence. New Issues in Central Asia], La Revue internationale et stratégique, no. 64, 2006.

“Gestion de l'indépendance et legs soviétique en Asie centrale” [Managing Independence and the Soviet Legacy in Central Asia], Cahiers d'Asie centrale, no. 13-14, 2004, 334 p.

4. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES IN ENGLISH

“Is there any unity to the Trans-Caspian Region? The economic relations between Central Asia and the Caucasus”, Asia Europe Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, 2009, pp. 543-557.

“Chinese Economic Presence in Kazakhstan: China’s Resolve and Central Asia’s Apprehension,” China Perspectives, no. 3, 2008, pp. 55-75.

“The Partnership between Islam and Orthodox Christianity in Central Asia,” Religion, State & Society, vol. 36, no. 4, 2008, pp. 393-405.

“The ‘Imperial Minority’: An Interpretative Framework of the Russians in Kazakhstan in the 1990s,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 36, no. 1, 2008, pp. 105-123.

“Christian Movements in Central Asia: Managing a Religious Minority in Soviet Times,” Acta Slavica Iaponica, Tomus 25, 2008, pp. 135-161.

“ Islam in Central Asia: National Specificities and Post-Soviet Globalization,” Religion, State and Society, vol. 35, no. 3, 2007, pp. 245-260.

“Nationhood and the Minority Question in Central Asia. The Russians in Kazakhstan,” Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 59, no. 3, 2007, pp. 481-501.

“The Relationship between Church and State in the Post-Soviet World. The Case of Christianity in Central Asia,” Journal of Church and State, vol. 49, Winter 2007, pp. 97-115.

“ Christianity and Nationality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia: Mutual Intrusions and Instrumentalizations,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 32, no. 3, 2004, pp. 651-674.

5. LONG POLICY PAPERS

“ Central Asia’s Growing Partnership with China”, EUCAM Policy Papers, October 2009, . “The Militarization of the Caspian Sea: ‘Great Games’ and ‘Small Games’ Over the Caspian Fleets,” The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, 2009, pp. 17-35, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, .

“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Successes and Challenges”, The Journal of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University, no. 1, vol. XVIII, 2009, pp. 1-14, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle.

“Business and Trade Relationship between the EU and Central Asia”, EUCAM Working Paper, no. 1, 2009, 15 p., .

China as a Neighbor. Central Asian Perspectives and Strategies, Washington DC: Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, Silk Road Monograph, April 2009, 202 p., co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, .

“Cross-Border Minorities As Cultural And Economic Mediators Between China And Central Asia,” The China and Eurasia Forum Quaterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, pp. 93-119, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, .

“ Facing the Challenge of Separatism: The EU, Central Asia and the Uyghur Issue,” EUCAM Brief Paper, no. 4, January 2009, 6 p., .

“The Russian Minority in Central Asia: Migration, Politics, and Language,” Kennan Occasional Papers, Washington D.C.: Kennan Institute, no. 297, 2008, 28 p.

“The Economic Aspects of the Chinese-Central-Asia Rapprochement,” Silk Road Papers, Washington D.C.: Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, September 2007, 74 p. .

“The Rise of Political Islam in Soviet Central Asia,” Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Washington D.C.: Hudson Institute, vol. 5, 2007, pp. 40-54. .

“The Hydroelectric Sector in Central Asia and the Growing Role of China,” China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 2007, pp. 131-148. .

6. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES IN FRENCH

“La présence économique chinoise au Kazakhstan. Volontarisme chinois et appréhensions centre- asiatiques”, Perspectives chinoises, n° 3, 2008, pp. 36-52.

“ Logiques et acteurs du présidentialisme au Kazakhstan : la ‘Famille’, les technocrates et les oligarques” [Logics and Actors of Presidentialism in Kazakhstan: The Presidential Family, Technocrats and Oligarchs], Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, no. 2, 2008, pp. 149-172.

“ Les Russes d’Asie centrale : une minorité en déclin face à de multiples défis” [The Russians of Central Asia: a Minority in Decline facing Multiple Challenges], Revue d’études comparatives Est- Ouest, no. 1, 2008, pp. 149-177.

“Les flux migratoires des Russes d’Asie centrale vers la Russie” [Migratory Flows of Russians from Central Asia Towards Russia], Espace, Populations, Sociétés, no. 1, 2007, pp. 47-57.

“Existe-t-il un ancrage spatial des minorités chrétiennes en Asie centrale ? Le poids du passé russo- soviétique” [Is there a Spatial Specificity of the Christian Minorities in Central Asia? The Legacy of the Russian-Soviet Past], Revue d'études des mondes musulman et méditerranéen (REMMM), no. 107- 108, 2005, pp. 461-481.

“La gestion du fait religieux en Asie centrale : maintien du cadre conceptuel soviétique et renouveau factice” [Managing Religious Diversity in Central Asia: Feigned Renewal and Continuation of the Soviet Conceptual Framework], Cahiers d'Asie centrale, no. 13-14, 2004, pp. 77-120.

“ Les missions orthodoxes entre pouvoir tsariste et allogènes. Un exemple des ambiguïtés de la politique coloniale russe dans les steppes kazakhes” [Christian Orthodox Missions between Tsarist Power and Natives. An Example of Ambiguity in Russian Colonial Policy in the Kazakh steppes], Cahiers du monde russe, vol. 45, no. 1-2, 2004, pp. 109-135.

“Entre Russie et Asie centrale : regards croisés sur la minorité russe du Kazakhstan” [Between Russia and Central Asia: Mutual Views of the Russian Minority in Kazakhstan], Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée Orientale et le Monde Turco-Iranien (CEMOTI), no. 34, 2002, pp. 99-118.

7. OTHER ARTICLES IN FRENCH

“Recomposition géopolitique sur le vieux continent ? L’Organisation de coopération de Shanghai” [Geopolitical Reorganization on the old continent? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization], La Revue internationale et stratégique, no. 72, Winter 2008-2009, pp. 181-189, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle.

“La présence chinoise en Asie centrale. Portée géopolitique, enjeux économiques et impact culturel” [The Chinese Presence in Central Asia. Geopolitical Scope, Economic Stakes and Cultural Impact], Etudes du CERI, no. 148, September 2008.

“ Gök-Tepe, histoire et mémoire du Turkménistan” [Goek-Tepe, History and Memory of the Turkmenistan], Le Courrier des pays de l’Est, no. 1067, 2008, pp. 34-37.

“Asie centrale, la fin d'une époque ?” [Central Asia, the End of an Era?], Politique internationale, no. 115, June 2007, pp. 343-360.

“ Le tournant ouzbek de 2005. Eléments d'interprétation de l'insurrection d'Andijan” [The 2005 Turning Point in Uzbekistan. Some Interpretative Elements of the Andijan Uprising], La Revue internationale et stratégique, no. 64, 2006, pp. 78-87.

“Vers une sortie de l’influence russe et du passé soviétique ? Analyse des éléments de continuité en Asie centrale” [Towards the End of the Russian and Soviet Influence? An Analysis of Continuity in Central Asia], Outre-terre. Revue française de géopolitique, vol. 16, no. 3, 2006, pp. 227-243.

“ L’Asie centrale quinze ans après l’indépendance : un bilan en demi-teinte” [Central Asia Fifteen Years after Independence: A Mitigated Balance], Politique étrangère, no. 2, 2006, pp. 397-406.

“Asie centrale, la dérive autoritaire” [Central Asia, the Drift towards Authoritarianism], Notes de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, no. 3, 2006, 15 p.

“ Société civile et libertés publiques en Asie centrale post-soviétique” [Civil Society and Public Liberties in Post-Soviet Central Asia], Géostratégiques, Institut international d’études stratégiques, no. 12, 2006, pp. 107-123.

“ Religion et pouvoir d’Etat en Asie centrale. Un système fragilisé” [Religion and State Power in Central Asia. A weakened System], Transcontinentales, no. 1, 2005, pp. 69-84.

“ Une majorité devenue minorité. Les Russes du Kazakhstan” [A Minority as the Former Majority. Russians in Kazakhstan], Slavica Occitania, no. 20, 2005, pp. 359-384.

“ Les Eglises chrétiennes en Asie centrale : l'expérience soviétique et post-soviétique” [Christian Churches in Central Asia: Soviet and Post-Soviet Experiences], Oriente Moderno, no. 3, 2004, pp. 575-592.

“Le christianisme en Asie centrale. Miroir des évolutions politiques” [Christianity in Central Asia as a Mirror of Political Evolutions], Le Courrier des pays de l’Est, no. 1045, 2004, pp. 51-61.

“Croyants et mouvements chrétiens en Asie centrale de 1945 à nos jours : réalités soviétiques et post-soviétiques d'une minorité en milieu musulman” [Christian Movements and Believers in Central Asia from 1945 until the Present: Soviet and Post-Soviet Realities of a Minority in a Muslim Area], Revue des études slaves, no. 2-3, 2003, pp. 607-611.

“ Pour une histoire des mouvements chrétiens en Asie centrale. Le cas de l’Eglise luthérienne” [History of Christian Movements in Central Asia: The Case of the Lutheran Church], Cahiers d’Asie centrale, no. 9, 2001, pp. 209-234.

“Chrétiens en terre d’islam : Esquisse d’une histoire du christianisme en Asie centrale” [Christians in Islamic Lands: A Short History of Christianity in Central Asia], Slovo, no. 23-24, 1999, pp. 368-376.

Entries on Central Asia in RAMSES (2008) and L’état du monde (2008, 2009, 2010).

8. BOOK CHAPTERS

“ Christian Minorities in Central Asia”, in Avrum Ehrlich (ed.), Negotiating Identity Amongst the Religious Minorities in Asia, Leiden/Boston: Brill, forthcoming, 2009.

“Christians as the main religious minority in Central Asia,” in J. Sahadeo, R. Zanka (ed.), Everyday life in Central Asia. Past and Present, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, pp. 406-420.

“Regards sur la présence russe et polonaise au Kazakhstan : décembristes et révolutionnaires exilés dans les steppes” [A History of the Russian presence in Kazakhstan: Decembrists and Revolutionaries Exiled in the Steppes], in C. Poujol (ed.), Contributions à l’histoire contemporaine du Kazakhstan [Contributions to the Contemporary History of Kazakhstan], Paris: Les Indes savantes, forthcoming, 2009.

“ Les processus globaux de recomposition identitaire et religieuse : l'islam post-soviétique” [The Global Processes of National and Religious Recomposition: The case of Post-Soviet Islam], in M. Laruelle, S. Peyrouse (ed.), Islam et politique en ex-URSS (Russie d’Europe et Asie centrale) [Islam and Politics in the Former Soviet Union (European Russia and Central Asia)], Paris: L'Harmattan/IFEAC, 2005, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, pp. 15-37.

“ La recomposition du spectre religieux en Asie centrale. L'alliance entre Etat, islam officiel et christianisme orthodoxe” [The Recomposition of the Religious Spectrum in Central Asia. The Alliance between the State, Official Islam and Russian Christian Orthodoxy], in M. Laruelle, S. Peyrouse (ed.), Islam et politique en ex-URSS (Russie d’Europe et Asie centrale) [Islam and Politics in the Former Soviet Union (European Russia and Central Asia)], Paris: L'Harmattan/IFEAC, 2005, pp. 61-84.

“Nouvelles formulations idéologiques et théologiques de l'islam post-soviétique” [New Ideological and Theological Formulations of Post-Soviet Islam], in M. Laruelle, S. Peyrouse (ed.), Islam et politique en ex-URSS (Russie d’Europe et Asie centrale) [Islam and Politics in the Former Soviet Union (European Russia and Central Asia)], Paris: L'Harmattan/IFEAC, 2005, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, pp. 273-295.

9. PUBLICATIONS IN RUSSIAN, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH

“Relaciones empresariales y comerciales entre la UE y Asia Central”, EUCAM Document de trabajo, Junio 2009, .

“ Un enfoque histórico y estructural de Asia Central desde una perspectiva regional”, Boletin GovernAsia. La situación de la gobernanza en Asia Central, no. 8, 2009, pp. 10-25, , co-authored with Marlène Laruelle.

“Rückkehr und Aufbruch. Zentralasiatische Migrationsströme,” [Return and Departure. The Central Asian Migrations] Osteuropa. Machtmosaik Zentralasien. Traditionen, Restriktionen, Aspirationen [Osteuropa. Central Asian Mosaic of Power. Traditions, Restrictions, Aspirations], vol. 57, no. 7-9, 2007, pp. 245-256.

“La politica americana in Uzbekistan: un impergno esistante ?” [The American Policy in Uzbekistan: a Hesitating Commitment?], in A. Colombo (ed.), La sfida americana. Europa, Medio Oriente e Asia orientaledi fronte all’egemonia globale degli Stati Uniti [The American Challenge: Europe, the

Middle-East and Central Asia in View of the Supremacy of the United States], co-authored with Marlène Laruelle, Milan: CEMISS-IPSI, 2006, pp. 79-99.

“Upravlenie religioznym faktorom v Tsentral’noi Azii: prodolzhenie sovetskoi kontseptual’noi skhemy i psevdovozrozhdenie” [Managing Religious Diversity in Central Asia: Feigned Renewal and Continuation of the Soviet Conceptual Framework], in S. Abashin, V. Buzhkov (ed.), Islam v Tsentral’noi Azii [Islam in Central Asia], Moscow: Institut etnologii i antropologii, vol. 32, 2006, pp. 9- 32.

“ Vvedenie. Global’nye protsessy transformatsii identichnosti i religioznosti. Postsovetskii islam” [Introduction. The Global Processes of National and Religious Recomposition: The Case of Post- Soviet Islam], in Islam, identichnost’ i politika v postsovetskom prostranstve [Islam, Identity and the Politics in Post-Soviet Space], Kazan: Institute of Federalism, 2005, pp. 7-25, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle.

“ Izmenenie religioznogo spektra v Tsentral’noi Azii: soiuz mezhdu islamom i pravoslavnym khristianstvom” [The Recomposition of the Religious Spectrum in Central Asia. The Alliance between the State, Official Islam and Russian Christian Orthodoxy], in Islam, identichnost’ i politika v postsovetskom prostranstve [Islam, Identity and Politics in the Post-Soviet Space], Kazan: Institute of Federalism, 2005, pp. 142-161.

“Russkie na Altae. Istoricheskaia pamiat’ i natsional’noe samosoznanie v Kazakhstane” [Russians in Altay. Historic Memory and National Conscience in Kazakhstan], Ab Imperio, Kazan, no. 1, 2004, pp. 439-466, co-authored with Marlène Laruelle.

“Khristianstvo v sovremennoi Tsentral’noi Azii” [Christianity in Contemporary Central Asia], Vestnik Evrazii – Acta Eurasica, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, no. 2 (21), 2003, pp. 160-189.

12. BOOK REVIEWS

In The Russian Review: I. Ohayon, La sédentarisation des Kazakhs dans l'URSS de Staline. Collectivisation et changement social (1928-1945), Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose/IFEAC, 2006.

In Nationalities Papers: J. Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007; A. Khalid, Islam after Communism. Religion and Politics in Central Asia, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007.

In The International Journal of Middle-East Studies: A. Papas, Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan, Paris: Jean Maisonneuve successeur, 2005.

In Europe-Asia Studies: B. Studer, B. Unfried, I. Herrmann (ed.), Parler de soi sous Staline. La construction identitaire dans le communisme des années trente, Paris: MSH, 2002.

In Cahiers du monde russe: Y. Ro'i (ed.), Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia. London/New York: Frank Cass, The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University,

2004; T. Uyama (ed.), Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia, 21st Century COE Program Slavic Eurasian Studies no. 14, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 2007.

In Central Eurasian Reader: A.-A Rorlich, “Islam, Identity and Politics: Kazakhstan, 1990-2000,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 31, no. 2, 2003, pp. 157-176; B. Kiepenheuer-Drechsler, “Trapped in Permanent Neutrality: Looking behind the Symbolic Production of the Turkmen Nation,” Central Asian Survey, vol. 25, no. 1-2, 2006, pp. 129-142; C. Surucu, “Modernity, Nationalism, Resistance: Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan,” Central Asian Survey, vol. 21, no. 4, 2002, pp. 385-402; E. Poppe, L. Hagendoorn, “Titular Identification of Russians in Former Soviet Republics,” Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 55, no. 5, 2003, pp. 771-787; G. Raballand, “L’eau en Asie centrale: entre interdépendance régionale et vulnérabilités nationales,” Géoéconomie, vol. 18, 2001, pp. 119-144; M. Flynn, “Renegotiating Stability, Security and Identity in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Experience of Russian Communities in Uzbekistan,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 35, no. 2, 2007, pp. 267-288; F. Aubin, “Jesus in the Confrontation between Islam and Christianity Transposed into China,” in R. Malek (ed.), The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ, Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica – China Zentrum (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series: 50/3a), 2005, pp. 869-887.

In Cahiers d’Asie centrale: S. Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie centrale : voyageurs et aventuriers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, Geneva: Olizane, 2003; M. B. Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002.

13. PUBLICATIONS FOR BROADER AUDIENCES

“ Kazakhstan’s Cereal Power And Its Regional Impact,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, July 15, 2009, .

“The Growth Of Commercial Exchanges Between Central Europe And Central Asia,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, April 22, 2009, .

“The Growing Trade Stakes Of The Chinese-Kyrgyz-Uzbek Railway Project,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, March 11, 2009, .

“China’s Recent Advance in Central Asia,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, December 12, 2008, .

“ Sino-Kazakh Relations: A Nascent Strategic Partnership,” China Brief, November 7, 2008, .

“Russia and India Face Kazakhstan’s Space Ambitions,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, October 29, 2008, .

“ Stakes and implications of the Construction boom in Turkmenistan,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, July 7, 2008, .

“Flowing Downstream: The Sino-Kazakh Water Dispute,” China Brief, vol. 7, no. 10, May 16, 2007, pp. 7-10, .

“Central Eurasian Studies in France,” Central Eurasian Studies Review, vol. 6, no. 1-2, 2007, pp. 44-46 .

“Kazakhstan’s Economic Presence in Central Asia,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, October 5, 2007, .

“Turkménistan : la réouverture du jeu politique et énergétique ?,” [Turkmenistan: The Reopening of Politics and Energy Game?], Foreign Policy, no. 5, 2007, pp. 79-80.

“L’islam dans l’espace postsoviétique,” Questions internationales, Paris: La Documentation française, no. 21, 2006, pp. 26-27.

“Christen. Einsam zwischen Islam und Orthodoxie,” Der Überblick, no. 1, 2006, pp. 66-69.

“ Christian Proselytism in Kazakhstan,” Central Asia and Caucasus Analyst, January 26, 2006, .

“ Entretien avec Régis Gente sur le christianisme au Kazakhstan” [Interview by Régis Gente on Christianity in Central Asia], Peuples du monde, no. 396, 2005, pp. 30-31.

“L’Asie centrale post-soviétique : fermeture politique et dérive autoritaire” [Post-Soviet Central Asia: Political Closure and Drift towards Authoritarianism], La Lettre du Colisée, no. 50, 2004, p. 12.

“Les chrétiens en Asie centrale : communautés traditionnelles et nouveaux missionnaires face aux Etats post-soviétiques – Entretien avec Sébastien Peyrouse” [Christians in Central Asia : Traditional Communities and New Missionnaries in the Post-Soviet States – An interview with Sebastien Peyrouse], Religioscope, January 5, 2004. .

“Religious diversity in Post-Soviet Central Asia,” ISIM Newsletter, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, no. 14, 2004, pp. 48-49.

“Towards a Connection Between Religion and Nationality in Central Asia?,” Central Eurasia Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Winter 2005, pp. 13-16 .

11. GUEST LECTURES

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Successes and Challenges, Nehru Center, Mumbai, October 28, 2009.

Central Asia Strategies for dealing with China, Center for Central Eurasian Studies, Mumbai University, October 27, 2009.

Central Asia between Russia and China: Local Strategies and Perspectives on the new 'Great Game', Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Delhi, October 21, 2009.

The Chinese Economic Presence in Central Asia. Sinophobia and Sinophilia among Central Asian Elites, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, October 12, 2009.

Political and Geopolitical Stakes of the Sino-Central-Asian Relations, Center for Central Asia Studies in Kashmir University, Srinagar, October 7, 2009.

Central Asia Strategies for dealing with China, The Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., April 29, 2009; The Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, May 12, 2009.

Central Asia between Russia and China: Local Strategies and Perspectives on the new ‘Great Game’, Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Stockholm University, March 25, 2009.

The Chinese Economic Presence in Central Asia. Sinophobia and Sinophilia among Central Asian Elites, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, October 30, 2008.

The Chinese Presence in Central Asia and its Social Reception, Centre français d’études de la Chine contemporaine (CEFC), Hong Kong, October 29, 2008.

Political and Geopolitical Stakes of the Sino-Central-Asian Relations, Graduate Institute of Russian Studies, National Chengdu University, Taipei, October 17, 2008.

Cultural and Economic Mediators of the China-Central Asia Relations, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Central Asia, Ching Yun University, Taipei, October 16, 2008.

The Political and Religious Situation in Contemporary Central Asia, Graduate Institute for Central Asian Studies, Xian Normal University, China, October 9, 2008.

The Economic and Social Situation in Contemporary Central Asia, Institute for Central Asian Studies, Lanzhou University, China, October 2, 2008.

La présence chinoise en Asie centrale et sa réception sociale [The Chinese Presence in Central Asia and its Social Reception], Doctoral Workshops of the French Center, Beijing, May 8, 2008.

From Repatriation to Remittance: The Evolution of Migration Flows from Central Asia to Russia, Kennan Institute Seminar, Washington D.C., April 30, 2007.

Islam and Politics in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March 22, 2007.

Managing Religion in Central Asia: The Continuity of the Soviet Conceptual Framework, Central Asia Seminars, Tokyo University, September 16, 2006.

State, Religion and Secularism Issue in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Summer Symposium, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, July 9, 2006.

Central Asia Fifteen Years after Independence: The Drift towards Authoritarianism, Kennan Institute Seminar, Washington D.C., March 20, 2006.

Asie centrale, quinze ans après l’indépendance : un bilan en demi-teinte [Central Asia fifteen years after Independence. A Mitigated Balance], Paris, Foundation for Strategic Research, March 1, 2006.

Presentation of the book Central Asia, the Drift towards Authoritarianism, Paris, Center of International Relations Studies (CERI), February 24, 2006.

13. COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATIONS

Central Asia as Afghanistan’s “Near Abroad”: the Drug-Trafficking Issue, “Security Issues in Central Asia and the Swedish EU Presidency”, EUCAM-ISDP joint seminar, ISPD, Stockholm, 5 November 2009.

Rural poverty and the state of the agricultural sector in Central Asia, “The Development and Security Nexus. The 2009 Conference of the Swedish Network of Peace, Conflict and Development Research”, Stockholm University, 6-7 November 2009.

The Chinese Economic Presence in Central Asia, international conference “Central Asia, the New ‘Great Game’ between the Emerging Powers of China and India”, Delhi, organized by the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (Tashkent), the French Center for the Study of Contemporary China (Hong-Kong), and the French Center for Human Sciences (Delhi), October 14-15, 2009.

The European Union Policy In Central Asia: New Strategies And Old Complexities, 9th Conference of Central Asian & Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Shanghai International Culture Association, Shanghai Center for International Studies and the Center of SCO Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, July 17-19, 2009.

The Repatriation Issue of Russians from Central Asia: Migratory Flows and the Russophonia Question, Conference “National Identity in Eurasia II: Migrancy & Diaspora”, Wolfson College, Oxford University, July 10-12, 2009.

Central Asian Perceptions of China, Conference “Strategic Assessment of the Caspian Sea Basin Region”, Brookings, Energy Security Initiative And National Committee On American Foreign Policy, Brookings Institute, Washington D.C., May 7-8, 2009.

Sinophobia and Sinophilia in Central Asia, “Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and Beyond”, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., 6-7 May, 2009.

EU business relations with Central Asia, Conference “Promoting Regional Cooperation and Development in Central Asia”, The Wolfensohn Centre for Development (Brookings Institution), the Carnegie Endowment, the Centre for European policy Studies (CEPS) and the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), Brussels, March 2-3, 2009.

Secularism Issue in the Post-Soviet Space, Round-table “Religion in the former Soviet Union: Official, Unofficial, Secular, Diverse”, Kennan Institute, Washington D.C., March 20, 2007.

The Partnership between Islam and Orthodox Christianity in Central Asia, International Conference “Islam and Orthodoxy: Confrontation, Cohabitation and Comparison”, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University, Vienna, Austria, March 12-13, 2007.

The “Imperial Minority”: An Interpretative Framework of the Russians in Kazakhstan?, 6th Annual International Young Researchers Conference “Orienting the Russian Empire”, Havighurst Center, Miami University, Ohio, October 26-28, 2006.

Laïcité et gestion de la religion en Asie centrale [Managing Secularism and Religion in Central Asia], International Conference “Secularism in the World and the Post-Soviet experiences”, French-Russian Center in Social Sciences and Humanities and RGGU, Moscow, Russia, October 27-28, 2005.

The American Policy in Uzbekistan: a Hesitating Commitment?, International Conference “Il sistema internazionale e la nuova politica estera degli Stati Uniti” [Le Système international et la nouvelle politique étrangère américaine], Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Milan, Italy, May 30, 2005.

Proselytizing Stakes and Christian Perspectives in Soviet Central Asia, International Conference “Religious conversion after Socialism”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany, April 7-9, 2005.

How the Christian Denominations View Extremism in Central Asia, International Conference “Three Years after the Tashkent Resolution against Religiously Motivated Polical Terrorism and Extremism”, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, December 10, 2002.

14. CONVENTION PAPERS

The Chinese Presence and its Social Reception in Central Asia, International Conference on Central Eurasian Studies: Past, Present and Future, Maltepe University, Istanbul, March 17-19, 2009.

Central Asia as a boundary of Islam? A reflection on Post-soviet Islam and Christianity, National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Washington D.C., November 16-18, 2006.

When a Majority becomes a Minority: Russians in Kazakhstan, Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York, March 23-25, 2006.

The Ambiguities of Secularism in Central Asia, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington D.C., November 18-20, 2005.

Managing Religion in Central Asia. The Continuity of the Soviet Conceptual Framework, Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Boston University, September 29-October 2, 2005.

The Orthodox Church Mission in the Kazakh Steppe (1881-1917): A Russian Religious Vision of Kazakhs, VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), Berlin, Germany, June 25-30, 2005.

Russians in Kazakhstan and the Question of Emigration, Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Bloomington, Indiana University, October 4-7, 2004.

Between Russia and Central Asia: Stakes and Perspectives of the Russian Minority in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Toronto, November 20-23, 2003.

Christians and Muslims Relationships in Central Asia, Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Anchorage, Alaska, November 6-9, 2003.

Between Atheism and Islam: Christians in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Boston, Harvard University, October 3-5, 2003.

Christianity and Nationality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia: Mutual Intrusions and Instrumentalisations, Annual Convention of the Association for the Study on Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New-York, April 3-5, 2003.

The Russian minority's Political Situation in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, European Society of Central Asian Studies Conference, Bordeaux, France, September 25-27, 2002.

Between Politics and Religion: The Christian Movements in Post-Soviet Central Asia, European Society of Central Asian Studies Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 27-30, 2000.

A Christian Revival in Central Asia? Between Introversion and Universalism, 6th annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, March 27, 1999.

Un exemple d’espace social hors du contrôle du pouvoir : les minorités chrétiennes en Asie centrale post-soviétique [An example of Social Space Beyond the Control of the Power: Christian Minorities in Central Asia], Annual Convention of the French Association for the Arabic and Muslim Studies (AFEMAM), Tours, France, July 2-4, 1999.

Solidarités chrétiennes en Asie centrale ? [A Christian Solidarity in Central Asia?], Annual Convention of the French Association for the Arabic and Muslim Studies (AFEMAM), Lyon, France, July 2-4, 1998.

15. SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

The Post-Soviet States of Central Asia, 1991-2006: Political Trajectories Fifteen Years after Independence, History Department, Brock University, Saintes-Catharines, Canada, March 23, 2007.

Islam and politics in Post-Soviet Central Asia: a Response to Globalization?, Woodrow Wilson Work in Progress, Washington D.C., November 21, 2006.

Question nationale, question religieuse : les Russes en Asie centrale [National and Religious Questions: Russians in Central Asia], Eurasian Studies Doctoral Seminar, INALCO, Paris, December 14, 2004.

Une majorité devenue minorité : les Russes du Kazakhstan [A Minority as the Former Majority. Russians in Kazakhstan], Russian Studies Seminar, Le Mirail University, Toulouse, December 10, 2004.

Les Russes du Kazakhstan : situation politique et sociale d’une minorité [Russians in Kazakhstan: Social and Political Situation of a Minority], Uzbekistan Institute of Oriental Studies and IFEAC joint seminar, Tashkent, January 14, 2004.

Presentation of the book Christians between Atheism and Islam at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, the French Cultural Center in Bishkek, and the French Cultural Center in Almaty, May 6-7, 2004.

Le christianisme en Asie centrale contemporaine [Christianity in Contemporary Central Asia], IFEAC Doctoral Seminar, Tashkent, December 12, 2002.