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What does China want?

Jonathan Steele: China in the Stans, 24 October 2013

Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia 
by Philip Shishkin.
Yale, 316 pp., £20, June 2013, 978 0 300 18436 5
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The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change and the Chinese Factor 
by Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse.
Hurst, 271 pp., £40, October 2012, 978 1 84904 179 9
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... There have been far worse problems in the part of Central Asia subject to China’s rule, as Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, two French scholars of the region, both at George Washington University, point out in their book. In Xinjiang, where massive immigration by Han Chinese has reduced the Muslim Uyghurs to about 45 per cent of the ...

Slavdom

Greg Afinogenov: What Russians Want, 4 June 2026

Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime 
by Marlène Laruelle.
Stanford, 402 pp., £26.99, January 2025, 978 1 5036 4159 4
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Russia’s World Order: How Civilisationism Explains the Conflict with the West 
by Paul Robinson.
Cornell, 160 pp., £22.99, April 2025, 978 1 5017 8001 1
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Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance 
by Jeremy Morris.
Bloomsbury, 243 pp., £21.99, March 2025, 978 1 350 50931 3
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... strategy.Each side still sees the other as expansionist and tyrannical. As the political scientist Marlène Laruelle shows in her new book, Putin and his supporters increasingly believe that Russia’s purpose is to serve as a katechon, a nuclear bulwark against the menace of Euro-Atlantic liberalism and its push for hegemony and homogenisation. The ...

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