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Mishawaka, IN
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November 06, 2026

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Dmitry V. Shlapentokh

Associate Professor (****-Present) Assistant Professor (1991-1996)

Indiana University

Department of History

South Bend, IN 46634-7111

Phone 574-***-****

E-mail: ********@****.***

Home Mailing Address: 1534 Hoover Avenue, South Bend, Indiana 46615-1311

Phone 574-***-****

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ph.D. (1988)

Fields: Modern Russian/European/World History (Political, Social, Intellectual)

Dissertation: "The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life (XIX-XX Centuries)"

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI., M.A.

Major: Russian/Soviet/European History, Russian Literature

Moscow State University, Russia, B.A.

Major: Russian/Soviet/European Political and Intellectual History, Including Literature

Thesis: "The University of Moscow and the October Revolution”

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2015-Present, Participation in numerous roundtable discussions/interviews with

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America

2022, Peer reviewer for several Israel Science Foundation grants

2021, Peer reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund grants

2015, 2017, 2019, Consulting for agency of Kazakhstan government

2013, Expert witness at House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Hearing entitled “China’s Rapid

Political and Economic Advances in Central Asia and Russia,” (April 16)

2005-2006, Eurasian Conflict Senior Policy Fellow, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

2003-2004, Contributing Fellow for Central European and Eurasian Studies at

Hudson Institute

Summer 2002, Harvard University, NEH Institute "Eurasia in World History," Faculty

Summer 1997, Columbia University, Visiting Scholar

Summer 1994, NEH Seminar in Moscow (extensive work in Russian Archives)

Summer 1992, Hoover Institution, Fellow

1990-1991, Harvard Russian Research Center, Fellow

Summer 1989, NEH Seminar, Yale University

1987-1988 State University of New York at Oswego, Visiting Assistant Professor

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2019, Provided peer review for Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, International Sociology, Journal of Political Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Turkish Studies, Review of International Studies, Eighteenth Century Studies, Journal of Defense Studies and Resource Management and Eurasian Studies, Religious, Social Sciences, National Identities, Journal of Political Science, MDPI, Turkish Studies.

Field reader for Fulbright-Hayes Projects Abroad

Reviewer for Princeton University Press.

Taught History and/or Russian language on a part-time basis at the following universities:

Michigan State University, Marygrove College, Queens College (CUNY), Jerusalem Branch Summers, 1993-1996, 1998-1999

Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University (Awarded on basis of academic achievement)

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD

Recent Russian History/Noveishaia Istoriia Rossii, (Russia)

The Education and Science (Obrozovanie i nauka), (Russia)

Member of Advisory Board of Centre for Geopolitics & Security in Realism Studies

HONORS

Fellow, The International Napoleonic Society

Included in Marquis Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who in America

Included in following books published by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England: Who's Who in the 21st Century, Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century

Included in A Biographical Dictionary of the Soviet Union 1917-1988, K. G. Saur, 1989

Included in Contemporary Authors

Nominated as possible Fellow by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

EXTRAMURAL AWARDS

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Fourth Annual Awards (2001)

IREX Short Term Grant (Summer 2000)

NEH Fellowship (Summer 1997)

American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant (Summer 1995)

Hoover Fellowship (Summer 1992)

Grant to attend workshop on Economic Culture (Boston University, Summer 1991)

Grant to attend Fourth Social Science Research Council Summer Research Workshop on Soviet Politics and Society (University of Toronto, Summer 1991)

Late Award and Kunstadter Scholarship, University of Chicago (Awarded on basis of academic achievement.)

INTRAMURAL AWARDS

Intercampus Research Fund, Indiana University (2005)

Summer Fellowship, Indiana University South Bend (2003)

Overseas Conference Fund, Office of International Programs (Summer 2000)

Mellon Endowment Grant-in-Aid, Indiana University, REEI (Summer 2000)

International Projects and Activities Grant, Office of International Programs (Summer 2000)

Summer Fellowship, Indiana University REEI (1999)

Summer Fellowship, Indiana University South Bend (1998)

Research Project Initiation Expense Grant, Indiana University (Summer, 1996)

Travel Grant, Overseas Conference Fund, IU Office of International Programs

(Summer 1995)

International Projects and Activities Grant, Office of International Programs (Summer 1995)

Research Project Initiation Expense Grant, Indiana University (Summer 1995)

Mellon Grant-in-Aid for Research, Indiana University REEI (Summer 1995)

Mellon Grant-in-Aid for Travel, Indiana University REEI (Summer 1995)

Summer Research Fellowship, Indiana University (Summer 1994)

Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University Research & Development Committee

(Spring 1993)

Multi-campus Research Project Initiation Expense Grant, Indiana University (Spring 1993)

International Projects and Activities Grant, The President's Council on International Programs (Spring 1993)

Grant to attend International Conference in Russia (Fall 1992)

Summer National Resource Research Fellowship (Summer 1992)

Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University (Awarded on basis of academic achievement)

PUBLICATIONS: Monographs

The creation of Kazakh National Identity. Relationship with Russia, Routledge 2023

Ideological Seduction and Intellectuals in Putin’s Russia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

The French Revolution and the Anti-Democratic Tradition in Russia, Routledge, 2018 (Paperback of 1996 edition)

The Proto-Totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes, Routledge, 2017 (Paperback of 2006 edition)

Mongol Conquest in the Novels of Vasilii Yan: the Case of Intellectual Biography, Columbia

University Press/Ibidem-verlag, 2017

Societal Breakdown and the Rise of the Early Modern State in Europe: Memory of the Future, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015, paperback edition, 2008 hard cover edition

Russian Elite Image of Iran: From the Late Soviet Era to the Present, Scholars Choice Edition, 2015. (In the preface, the publisher noted: “This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.” The work was also translated into Farsi in Iran. (The work was originally published by the U.S. Army War College, 2012.)

The Role of Small States in the Post-Cold War Era: The Case of Belarus, Strategic Studies

Institute, US Army War College, 2012)

The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life (1865-1905), Transaction, Rutgers University, 2008 (Paperback edition of 1996 hardcover edition)

Russia Between East and West, Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism, Brill, 2007

The Counterrevolution in Revolution, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1999

Soviet Cinematography 1918-1991, Ideological Conflict and Social Reality, (co-author), Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993

Ideologies in the Period of Glasnost: Response to Brezhnev's Stagnation, (co-author),

New York: Praeger, 1988

PUBLICATIONS: Book-Length

“From ‘Ancient Regime’ to ‘New Regime’,” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 19, 1999 (Published as a separate issue of this magazine.)

“Drunkenness in the Context of Political Culture: The Case of Russian Revolutions,”

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 4, 1994 (Published as a separate issue of this magazine.)

“Mark Aldanov and the French Revolution: The Case of the Writer as Historian,” Stanford: International Studies Working Papers, The Hoover Institution, 1993

PUBLICATIONS: Books Edited, Prepared for Publication

An Introduction to Afanasy Nikitin’s Journey Beyond the Three Seas, (Kindle Edition), Idea India, 2011

An Introduction to the Heart of Asia, by Nikolai Rerikh (Kindle Edition), Idea India, 2011

PUBLICATIONS: Book Chapters

“Jihadization of Islamic Resistance: The Pattern of Great Revolutions from Nationalist Movements to Radicalism” in Terrorism through the Ages, edited by Graham Wrightson, Brill, 2023.

“ISIS and Russia” in The Online Terrorist: Propaganda, Recruitment and Radicalization, edited by John R Vaeca, CRC Press, 2019.

“Russian expansion and control in Central Asia: the myth of Aryanism and Bartol’d’s legacy,” Tsentral’naia Aziia na perekrestke evropeiskikh i aziatskikh politicheskikh interesov: XVIII-XIX vv. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov mezhdunarodnogo seminara. Alma-Ata, 19-23 Avgusta 2019-Nach.red. D.V. Vasil’ev. Moscow: OntoPrint, 2019.

“Popular support for the Soviet political trial of the late 1920s and the origins of the Great Purges,” in State Organized Terror, edited by Timothy Bushnell, Vladimir Shlapentokh, Christopher Vanderpool and Leyaratnam Sundram. Routledge, 2019.

“Christianity in recent Soviet films: the case of Russophile ideology,” in Christianity and Russian Culture in Soviet Society, edited by Nicholas N. Petro. Routledge, 2019.

“Preparation for National Revolution, or Acceptance of Inevitable Decay,” in Manufacturing Phobias (edited by Hsham Ramadam and Jeff Shantz), University of Toronto Prss, 2016.

“Dugin’s Early Eurasianism and the Problem of Recycling Ideology” in Globalizing Geographic Perspectives from Eurasia. (Edited by Anita Sengupta and Suchandana Chatterjee); New Delhi: KW Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2015

“Solzhenitsyn “Red Wheel”: Between emotion and reality,” (In Russian, “Krasnoe koleso’

Solzhenitsyna: mezdu emotsiiami i real’nost’iu”); in Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna: No puti k “krasnomu kolesu, Moscow: Russkii Put’ 2013

“Chechen Conflict Viewed Through the Prism of National Bolshevism” in Conflict and Peace in Eurasia, Edited by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Routledge, 2013

“Russia and China are Working to Contain the Taliban,” in Taliban, Opposing Viewpoint Series, (Edited by Noah Berlatsky), Farmington Hills, MI, Greenhaven Press, 2011

“Civilization: Linguistic and Cultural Construct or Product of Power?” in Sprachgrenzen-Sprachkontakte-Kulturelle Vermittler, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010

“Russian Cosmism: Its Roots and Global Setting,” in Filosofiia Tvorchestva, Diskurs Kreativnost. Sovremennye Kreativnye Praktiki, Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Nauchno-Prakticheskoi Konferentsii, Ekaterinburg, 2010

“Gulf States and Chechen Resistance: Between Pragmatic Love and Sincere Hate,” Russian and CIS Relations with Gulf Region: Current Trends in Political and Economic Dynamics, Gulf Research Center, 2009

“A Case in Point: The Image of the Russian Revolution in Émigré Thought,” The Soviet Union, Internal and External Perspectives on Soviet Society, Palgrave, 2008

“Yakov Bromberg: the Case of a Russian Jewish Eurasianist in the USA,” Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies, Part 2, Moscow: Sefer, 2008

“Russia as Asiatic Threat,” The Rise of the Asian Community and the New Dialogue Between Past and Future of the World, Pusan: Dae Dong Philosophical Association, 2006

“The Problem of the ‘De-Americanization’ of American Higher Education,” New Bearing in Higher Education, Istanbul: Fatih University Press, 2006

“Whether Russia Belongs to the West in the View of Dmytro Čiževskij,” Dmytro Čyževskij osobnost a dilo, Prague: Národní knihovna CR, 2004

“Trotskyists' Approach to Violence in the Late 1920s and its Implications on the Great Terror,” The Soviet Union––A Popular State? Saint Petersburg: Evropiyskii Dom, 2003

“Russia and NATO Expansion: Paradigms of Encounters,” Security at the Fault Line: Security in Central and Southeastern Europe, NATO Defense College, 2001

“Universalization of the Rejection of Human Rights: Russia’s Case,” Negotiating Culture and Human Rights, Columbia University Press, 2001

“Soviet Movie Industry,” The International Movie Industry, Southern Illinois Press, 2000

“The Problem of Russian Democracy: Can Russia Rise Again?” Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (Simultaneously published in Social Philosophy & Policy,

Vol. 17, 2000)

“Utopia and Reality: An Image of the USA in Russian Liberal and Radical Publications,” Prospects, An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1999

“Bolshevism, Nationalism, and Statism: Soviet Ideology in Formation,” The Bolsheviks in Russian Society, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997

“Nikolai Berdiaev and the Influence of the Fedorovian Vision,” Analecta Husserliana, Kluwer, Vol. 51, 1996

“The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life,” Ramifications of the French Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press/Washington: Woodrow Wilson Press, 1994

“Third Thermidor,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850. Proceedings 1992

Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University, 1993

“Cinema, Religious Themes,” Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Union,

Vol. 5, 1993

“Inside Views of Soviet Life Provided by Soviet Movies: Political Authors and Their Ideologies,” Communication Yearbook (Co-author), Newbury, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992, Westview Press, 1991

“Avvakum,” Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Soviet Union, Vol. 3, 1991

“Russian Nationalism and Soviet Intellectuals Under Gorbachev,” The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature, Rice University Press, 1991

“Christianity in Recent Soviet Films, The Case of Russophile Ideology,” Christianity in Russian Culture and Soviet Society, Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1990

“Historians of the French Revolution and Russian Intellectuals from 1850 to 1900,” Consortium, Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1990

“Letters to the Editor in the USSR During the 1980's,” Research on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Anthony Jones (Ed.), Vol. 1, (Co-author), Greenwich/London: JAI Press, 1990

“Turgenev and Schopenhauer: Man and Nature as Viewed by Ivan S. Turgenev,” Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Studies Conference, Cedar Falls: University of Northern Iowa, 1989

ARTICLES

“Toward a new Chinse-Russian economic deal,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 50, Issue 1, 2025.

“History War.” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 50, Issue 1, 2025.

“From confrontation to pragmatism,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 50, Issue 2, 2025.

“Totalitarian Future: The case of Red China,” Brolly Journal of Social Sciences 6 (1), 2025.

“Germany in the Russian Jewish mind during the Cold War: The case of Efraim Sevela,” Critical Survey, 2025.

“Confounding expectations,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 49, Issue 6, 2024.

“Zelensky, Ukrainian tsadik, and war in Ukraine,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 48, No. 6, 2023.

“Kremlin will speed up assimilating non-Russian Tatars,” Oxford Analytica, 15 May 2023.

“Putin hovers between Russian and ‘Eurasian’ aims,” Oxford Analytica, 3 November 2022.

“Putin and Ukraine: Power and the construction of history,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, May 2022.

“Promoting the Kazakh world,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, March/April 2022.

“The window in many dimensions: Tongdonq Bai, Against Political Equality: the Confucius Case,” Journal of Global Analysis, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2022.

“Can the United States win a new cold war?” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 46, No. 5, 2021.

“Turkmenistan’s dilemma,” Slavonica, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2021.

“Hungarian gas flirtation and geopolitical arrangements of a post-unipolar world,” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 29, No. 2-3, 2021.

“Marxism and the role of the state in the Soviet and Chinese experience,” International Journal of China Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2021.

“The mind of a jihadist: the North Islamic Resistance,” Middle East Policy, 28 October 2021.

“Kazakhstan, distancing from Russia, courts ethnic Russians,” The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 13 September 2021.

“The Turkey-Cyprus conflict and its implications for Russia,” Acta Via Serica, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2021.

“From Tamerlane to Alexander the Great: Uzbekistan’s evolving national narrative,” The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 2 November 2020.

“Russia’s gas price discount for Bulgaria: the problem of imperial economic project,” Insight Turkey, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2020.

“Putin as Renaissance Ruler,” Acta Via Series, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2020.

Response to Prof. Ernest B. Hook’s comments on “So-called Eurasianism,” Comparative Civilization Review, Vol. 83, No. 83, Fall 2020.

“Instability in Central Asia,” New Zealand International Review, September/October 2020.

“The Stavropol’ riot: emerging civil culture and its limits,” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 26 September 2019.

“Bolshevik Revolution and disintegration of Soviet/Russian historical space in Central Asia,” Slavonica, August 2019.

“The political configuration of historical narrative: the case of Kazakhstan,” Slavonica, 26 February 2019.

“Distribution of gas and oil in Russia and Chechnya’s special position,” Slavonica, vol. 24, Nos. 1-2, 2019.

“Trumpism vs. anti-postmodernism,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 44, No. 2, March/April 2019.

“The Ankara-Moscow relationship: the role of Turkish Stream,” Middle East Policy, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 2019.

“The twisted mirror of perception: social science in political/ideology expediency – the case of Russian Eurasianism,” Comparative Civilization Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, Fall 2019.

“Marx, the ‘Asiatic Mode of Production’ and ‘Oriental Despotism’ as ‘true Socialism’,” Comparative Sociology, Vol. 18, Issue 4, 2019.

“China’s quest for global predominance,” Perspectives on Political Science, 19 July 2019.

“Azerbaijan and Iran: a shift in geopolitical gravity,” Middle East Policy, Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter 2019.

“Russia’s sharp turns,” Cairo Review, Fall 2018.

“The Time of Troubles in Alexander Dugin’s narrative,” European Review, 31 October 2018.

“Estonian Russians: the success story of integration,” Trames: A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Issue 3, 2018.

“The Bolshevik Revolution Centennial and the Disintegration of Soviet Space,” CACI Analyst, 25 May 2018.

“Russia’s Westernization and a New ‘Cold War’,” Russia in Global Affairs, 29 May 2018.

“Fedorovism in Early Post-Soviet Russia: The Collapse of the Meta-Imperial Project,” Slavonica, vol. 22, 2017; in 2018 the article was translated and published in French as: “Le fiodorovisme du début de l’ere post-soviétique et l’ecroulement du project méta-imperial,” Slavic Occitania, Numéro 46, 2018.

“The Death of Postmodernism,” Russia in Global Affairs, Vol. 4, 2017.

“El conflicto entre Rusia y Belorrusia: el ga y el ptroloio corno armas geopoliticas y la naturaliza de las actuale dlianzas” (in Spanish), Ierele.es, 27 November 2017.

“Russia and USA: Rhetoric and Reality,” Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Spring 2017, vol. 18, Issue 1.

“The Kremlin’s last resort: Kadyrovsti in Russia’s National Guard,” CACI Analyst, 3 March 2017.

“Turkmenistan’s Gas Export Dilemma,” CACI Analyst, 15 November 2017.

“Alexander Dugin’s views of Russian history: collapse and revival,” Debatte, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, December 2017.

“Clinton’s defeat in historical perspective,” New Zealand International Review, 1 May 2017.

“Historical narrative and emotional paradigms: the case of Solzhenitsyn’s The Red Wheel and his other works,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 15 April 2016.

“Prospects of Turkmenistan-Iran Gas Cooperation,” CACI Analyst, 12 October 2016.

“Kazakhstan’s History as Geopolitical Battlefield,” CACI Analyst, 17 March 2016.

“Ideological Framework of Early Post-Soviet Russia’s Relationship with Turkey: The Case of Alexander Dugin’s Eurasianism,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, June 2016.

“Kazakh and Russian History and its Geopolitical Implications,” Insight Turkey, 1 October 2016.

“Alexander Dugin’s ‘Times of Troubles’ as Paradigms of Russian History,” International Politics Review, 3 volumes, October 2015

“Outsourcing Jihadists and Putin’s Foreign Policy,” International Politics Affairs Forum, Summer 2015

“Russia’s Image in Early Modern Europe: Between Paradise and Despotic Hell,” The European Legacy, August-September 2015

“Countering Over-stretch,” New Zealand International Review, November/December 2015

“The ISIS Threat and Moscow’s Influence in Central Asia and the Middle East,” CACI Analyst, November 6, 2015

“Kazakhstan and the EEU,” CACI Analyst, March 4 2015

“Construction of Utopian West: The Russian Nineteenth Century Intelligentsia,” European Review, Vol. 22, 2014

“Geo-politics in the Modern World,” New Zealand International Review, Vol. 39, 2014

“The Great Friendship: Geopolitical fantasies about the Russia/European alliance in the early Putin era (2000-2008) – The Case of Alexander Dugin,” Debatte, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 22, 2014

“The Socialist Regime: The Intellectual Origin of the Image,” Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol. 5, 2014

“Implementation of an Ideological Paradigm: Early Duginian Eurasianism and Russia’s Post-Crimean Discourse.” Contemporary Security Policy, November 20, 2014

“Slavic, European or Asiatic? F. H. Duchinski on the Origins of the Russian People,” The European Legacy, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2014

“Tajikistan, Russia and Migrant Workers,” Caucasus International, Vol. 3, 2014

“Dugin, Azerbaijan, and Russian Energy Strategy, CACI Analyst, June 18, 2014

“Russia and Germany and the Chance for Ménage à trois,” Russia in Global Affairs, September 22, 2014

“Why the U.S. Should Allow Russia to Take Over Ukraine,” Russia in Global Affairs, June 7, 2014

“Russia Fears Jihadists Returning Home,’ CACI Analyst, May 7, 2014

“Ukrainian and Belorussian Dimensions of Turkmenistan Foreign Policy: Small States in a Multi-polar World,” Defense & Security Analysis, April, 2014

“The Maritime Guerillas: A Sign of Things to Come” New Zealand International Review, January/February, Vol. 39, 2014

“From Russian to Ukrainian Eurasianism: the New ‘Historical’ Friends and Enemies” Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 14, 2013

“Israel and the United States: A New Trend,” New Zealand International Review, September/October, 2013

“Russians as Asiatics: Memory About the Present,” European Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2013

“Russia Ramps Up Pressure on Tajikistan,” CACI Analyst, September 4, 2013

“Turkmenistan and Military Buildup in the Caspian Region: A Small State in the Post-Uni- Polar Era,” Journal of Eurasian Studies, July 2 (4), 2013

“A View from Russia: Moscow and Teheran’s Complex Relationship,” Iran Regional Forum, No. 4, June, 2013

”Kyrgyzstan Between China and Russia,” CACI Analyst, April 16, 2013

“The Death of the Byzantine Empire and Construction of Historical/Political Identities in Late Putin Russia,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, March, 2013

“North Caucasus Insurgence Funded by Magadan Gold,” CACI Analyst, January 23, 2013

“LNG Provides New Options for Turkmen Gas Export to Eastern Europe,” CACI Analyst, January 9, 2013

“Georgia’s Flirtation with Iran and Its Geopolitical Implications” The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2012

“The Image of the Russian Revolution on Russian TV,” Contemporary Review, Vol. 24, 2012

“Russian Nationalists as Georgian Allies,” Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 16, 2012

“Byzantine History and the Discourse of the Russian Political Intellectual Underground,”

Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol. 3, 2012

“China and Belarus: the Grand Plan,” January-February, New Zealand International Review,

Vol. 37, 2012

“Lev Gumilev: The Ideologist of the Soviet Empire,” History of European Ideas, July, 2012

“Afanasy Nikitin's Voyage Beyond the Three Seas: An Orthodox Russian in Medieval India,” Oriens Vol. 40, 2012

“The Intellectual and Political Exchange Among Jihadists: The Case of Mustafa Setmarian

Naser (Abu Musab al-Sun),” Journal of Applied Security Research, Vol. 7, 2012

“Love and Hate of Foreign Lands: The Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia,”

The European Legacy, Vol. 17, 2012

“The Problem of National Identification, ‘Many Layers of Pie’ of Sergei Kortunov,” (in Russian)

New Zealand Slavonic Journal, Vol. 44, 2012

“North Caucasian Resistance and Syrian Crisis,” No. 83, Middle East Insights,

December 3, 2012

“Russia: Calm Before the Storm,” The Salisbury Review, Autumn, 2012

“Regional Realignments in Central Asia,” CACI Analyst, November 28, 2012

“Tatarstan Influenced by North Caucasus Resistance,” CACI Analyst, October 31, 2012

“Russian Converts Join North Caucasian Resistance,” CACI Analyst,

August 22, 2012

“Russian Treatment of Tadjikistan Underlines Fear of Dependence in Central Asia,”

CACI Analyst, August 2, 2012

“Egypt: Change Without Change,” Middle East Insights, No. 67, July 19, 2012

“Turkmenistan Eyes Ukraine and Belarus for Potential Gas Exports,”

CACI Analyst, June 27, 2012

“North Caucasian Insurgency Changes Strategy,” CACI Analyst,

May 30, 2012

“The Anti-Semitism of History: The Case of the Russian Neo-Pagans,” European Review,

Vol. 20, No. 2, May 2012

“Azerbaijan-Iran Tensions Serve Russian Energy Interests,” CACI Analyst, April 18, 2012

“Turkey and Kyrgyzstan Deepen Ties,” CACI Analyst, March 21, 2012

“Clash Between Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan Underlines Risk of War in Central Asia,”

CACI Analyst, February 22, 2012

“Russia Pushes Eurasian Union, Central Asia Hesitates,” CACI Analyst, February 20, 2012

“Russian Treatment of Tajikistan Underlines Fear of Dependence in Central Asia,”

CACI Analyst, February 8, 2012

“Russia and the War on Terror: The Multiplicity of Roles,” Journal of Foreign Relations January 9, 2012

“The Fate of Nicolai Marr’s Linguistic Theories: The Case of Linguistics in the Political Context,” Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol. 2, 2011

“The Image of the Neighbor: Russia/USSR as a Primordial Asiatic Threat for East Europeans,”

New Zealand Slavonic Journal, Vol. 45, 2011

“The Struggle for the Byzantine Heritage in Post-Soviet Space,” Archivum Ottomanicum,

Vol. 28, 2011

“Jihadism in the Post-Soviet Era: The Case of Interaction of Theoretical and Practical Aspects of the Revolutionary Struggle,” Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 15, 2011

“CSTO Exercises Expose Eurasian Disunity,” CACI Analyst,

December 14, 2011

“Jihadists in Kazakhstan and the Increasing Instability in Central Asia,”

CACI Analyst, November 16, 2011

“Kavkaz Center and Civil War in Libya,” Defense Review Asia, October 27, 2011

“The Role of Converts in North Caucasian Terrorism,” CACI Analyst, September 21, 2011

“Huns in Eurasianist Thought: The Case of Lev Gumilev,” International Journal of Turkish Studies, Fall, Vol. 17, Nos. 1 & 2, 2011

“Putin's Moscow Approach to Iran: Between Pragmatism and Fear,” Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 13, June 2011

“Russia & the U.S.—Consequences for Central Asia,” Defense Review Asia, Vol. 5,

No. 3, May, 2011

“The Next Revolution,” Armed Forces Journal, April 2011

“Jihadism Spread of Kyrgyzstan,” CACI Analyst, February 16, 2011

“The U.S.-Russia Rapproachement and Consequences for Central Asia,” Defense Review Asia, Vol. 5, No. 1, February, 2011

“Kondopoga—Ethnic/Social Tension in Putin’s Russia,” European Review, Vol. 18, 2010

“The New Brave World,” Defense Review Asia, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2010

“The Rise of the Russian Khalifat: The View from the Jihadist Side,” Iran and the Caucasus,

Vol. 14, No. 1, 2010

“The Russian Far East: New Directions,” New Zealand International Review,

Vol. 35, Issue 2, 2010

“Merger of Stavropol and North Caucasus Breeds Ethnic Nationalism Among Local Russians” CACI Analyst, December 22, 2010

“The China-Central Asia Gas Deal,” Reflections, November 2010

“The New Détente and its Implications for U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Central Asia,”

CACI Analyst, October 12, 2010

“Gulf States/Saudi Arabia and Russia’s Approach to Iran, Similarities and Differences,”

Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 26, No. 3, September 2010

“Events in Kyrgyzstan,” Asia-Pacific Defense Reporter, Vol. 36, No. 5, June, 2010

“Kadyrov’s Contacts with Israel and the Jihadist Threat,” CACI Analyst, May 11, 2010

“Russia Sends Messages to Washington in New York Times article,”

CACI Analyst, March 17, 2010

“Uzbeks’ Role in Afghan Fighting,” Asia-Pacific Defense Reporter, Vol. 36, No. 11,

February 2010

“The Evolution of Jihadism in Russia,” CACI Analyst,

January 20, 2010

“History and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Putin’s Russia,” Context: The Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, Vol. 1, 2009

“Russian History and the Ideology of Putin’s Regime Through the Window of Contemporary Russian Movies,” Russian History, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2009

“The Trend in Russian Nationalism in the Last Years of the Putin Era,” Ab Imperio, Issue 4, 2009

“Verkhi i nizy russkogo natsonalizma, Moscow, Sova, 2007 and Russkii Natsionalism: Ideologiia nastroenie, Moscow: Sova, 2006” in AB Imperio, Vol. 4, 2009

“Kadyrov-Zakaev Talks Spark Concern in Moscow,” CACI Analyst, November 26, 2009

“The Former USSR’s Role in Pakistan Fighting,” Defence Review Asia,

Vol. 3, November, 2009

“The Image of Genghis Khan and Ethnic Identities in Post-Soviet Russia,” Asia-Europe Journal, September 2009

“China, Russia and the Risk of Explosion in Central Asia” CACI Analyst, July 15, 2009

“Gypsies: Idealized Rebels or the Scourge of Society,” Strategic Studies, Vol. XXVIII, 2008

“Alexander Dugin’s Views on the Middle East,” Space and Polity, Vol. 12, 2008

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