Professor Marlene Laruelle
IAS Open Programme
George Washington University
Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. At IERES she is also Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program, a Co-Director of PONARS (Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia), and the founder and Director of the Central Asia Program.
She has published widely on Russia’s ideologies and nationalism, on Russia’s foreign policy and soft power strategies, and has published 10 monographs, the last one being Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West (Cornell University Press). She is currently working on Russia’s and China’s promotion of illiberal governance.
She is also Co-Investigator on the research project Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism (PANCOPOP), led by Professor Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough) and funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities under the Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in the Post-Pandemic World scheme. Professor Laruelle leads Strand 5 of the project, on Pandemic Geopolitics.