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Peer-reviewed journal articles in english

“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 Postsoviet 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.

Policy articles in English  

“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, 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.  

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

“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, 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.  

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

Peer-reviewed journal articles in french

“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.

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

“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.

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, 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).

Book Chapters

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

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

Russian-language and German-language Scholarly Publications

“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.

“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.

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.

Publications for broader audiences

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

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

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

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

“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, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 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, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 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.

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