Edward Schatz

Professor
Director, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES)

Biography

Research interests: social mobilization, identity politics, qualitative methods, former USSR, Central Asia. Recent publications include Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Stanford U. Press) and Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (U. Pittsburgh Press, co-edited with John Heathershaw).. Current projects include a study of authoritarianism in Central Asia and an interdisciplinary, collaborative project on the long-term effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, soon to be published by Oxford U. Press.

Research Interests

• Social Mobilization
• Identity Politics
• Qualitative Methods
• Former USSR
• Central Asia

Recent News

• New Appointments
• Show Time: Posthumously published book by UTM’s Lee Ann Fujii tackles political violence
• New Appointments
• Exploring Violence and Peace in Divided Societies
• Ed Schatz delivers CESS Presidential Address
• Prof. Edward Schatz Elected President of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
• Professor Ed Schatz has been given the Giovanni Sartori Book Award
• Professor Ed Schatz honoured by APSA

Recent Publications

• Slow Anti-Americanism – Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia