Books

Nine monographs and two edited volumes, published between 2015 and 2024, that together chart the end of the unipolar moment and the rise of a Eurasian world order.

Monographs

Authored books

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Clarity Press · 2024

The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order

Places the war within three decades of failed attempts to build an inclusive European security order and argues that it has accelerated the transition to a multipolar system centred on Eurasia. Spanish edition published by Akal (2025).

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Clarity Press · 2023

The Think Tank Racket

An examination of how think tanks, funded by governments and defence contractors, shape public debate on Russia and narrow the space for diplomacy.

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Palgrave Macmillan · 2022

Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics

Traces the long history of anti-Russian narratives in Western thought, from the sixteenth century to the present, and analyses their function in contemporary international politics.

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Rowman & Littlefield · 2021

Russian Conservatism

An intellectual history of Russian conservatism and its revival as a governing philosophy, explaining why a tradition shaped by repeated revolutionary rupture prizes gradual change and continuity.

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Rowman & Littlefield · 2021

Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia

Argues that Europe's prosperity and security in a multipolar world depend on engaging with, rather than walling itself off from, an integrating Eurasian continent.

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Bloomsbury · 2021

Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Explores how artificial intelligence, automation and digital platforms are reshaping the competition for technological sovereignty among the great powers.

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Cover of The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia
Routledge · 2018

The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia

Applies the sociological distinction between community and society to the divergent trajectories of the West and Russia, and to the appeal of conservative politics in both.

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Routledge · 2017

Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia

The foundational study of Russia's turn from a Greater Europe to a Greater Eurasia, built around strategic industries, transport corridors and financial instruments. Also available in German.

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Routledge · 2015

EU and NATO Relations with Russia

Drawing on his doctoral research, examines how security institutions that exclude Russia created a security dilemma in Europe after the Cold War.

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Edited volumes

Co-edited with Alexander Lukin

Two collections bringing together scholars from Russia, China, India, Europe and beyond on the return of Eurasia to the centre of international politics.

Cover of The Return of Eurasia: Continuity and Change
Palgrave Macmillan · 2021

The Return of Eurasia: Continuity and Change

Examines the historical continuities behind Eurasian integration and the new institutions, from the Eurasian Economic Union to the Belt and Road Initiative, that are giving it form.

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Palgrave Macmillan · 2020

Russia in a Changing World

Assesses Russia's foreign policy and domestic trajectory amid the erosion of the post-Cold War order and the shift of economic power towards Asia.

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Discussion

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Many of the themes in these books are developed further in Glenn Diesen's podcast conversations and Substack essays.