Professor Luca Anceschi

  • Professor of Eurasian Studies (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 01413306559
email: Luca.Anceschi@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: They/them/theirs

Central & East European Studies, 9 Lilybank gardens

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X

Biography

I have been teaching Central Asian Studies in CEES since September 2013, and took up a Professorship in Eurasian Studies in August 2021.

Before joining the University of  Glasgow, I lectured in International Relations at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where, in 2012-2013, I held a Discovery Early Career Fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council.

There are three major lines of inquiry in my research agenda, which remained focused throughout my career on the Politics and International Relations of post-Soviet Central Asia.

One of my key interests relates to the investigation of the region’s processes of foreign policymaking. Here, my work contributed to unveil the domestic power implications of policy frameworks designed to operate at international level. I authored two monographs looking at how foreign policy is made across Central Asia.

I have a longstanding interest in locating discursively Central Asia’s energy mega projects in multidisciplinary debates on the domestic and international roles played by energy infrastructure. As part of my contribution to these debates, I completed a multi-level study of the virtual politics of the TAPI megaproject, a long-distance natural gas pipeline intended to operate across the Central/South Asia divide. This study appeared in article form on the Central Asian Survey.

A third, more recent line of research is meant to result in a multi-stage investigation of personalism and personalist rule, both within and beyond Central Asia. My initial contribution to Political Science debates on personalism centred on the processes that regulated power transfers out of personalist regimes in post-Niyazov Turkmenistan and post-Karimov Uzbekistan. A research article exploring these themes has appeared on the Journal of Contemporary Asia. More recently, I have edited, together with colleagues in Dublin and Quebec City, Personalism & Personalist Regimes, a major edited collection published by Oxford University Press, which looks comparatively at contemporary forms of personalism and personalist rulership across the world. 

I contribute regularly to the international debate on Central Asian Affairs. I have been a regular writer for Open Democracy Russiaand I am frequently interviewed in the Central Asia-focused podcasts organised by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. I have been quoted in The Economist, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Since 2015, I have been the editor of Europe-Asia Studies, which has been based at CEES since its establishment in 1949 and still remains the world’s premier academic journal for the study of the post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia.

Research interests

 

  • The making of foreign policy in post-Soviet Central Asia
  • The geopolitics of Eurasian energy in the era of climate change
  • Personalism and personal rule in post-Soviet Central Asia  

Research groups

  • Central & East European Studies

Publications

Selected publications

Anceschi, L. (2020) Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era. Series: Central Asia research forum. Routledge. ISBN 9780415711432 (doi: 10.4324/9781315674698)

Anceschi, L. (2017) Turkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy: the case of the TAPI pipeline project. Central Asian Survey, 36(4), pp. 409-429. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2017.1391747)

Anceschi, L. (2014) The tyranny of pragmatism: EU–Kazakhstani relations. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.864101)

Anceschi, L. (2008) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime. Series: Central Asian studies series. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415454407

All publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2021 | 2020 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2005
Number of items: 37.

2024

Anceschi, L. (2024) The global history of the Atomic Steppe. Central Asian Affairs, 11(2), pp. 191-193. (doi: 10.30965/22142290-12340032)[Book Review]

Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (Eds.) (2024) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780192848567

Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (2024) On 'new' and 'old' personal rule: concluding remarks. In: Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 312-332. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, L. (2024) Personalist rule and regime continuity in Central Asia. In: Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 205-230. ISBN 9780192848567

Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (2024) Introduction: Personalism and Personalist Regimes. In: Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780192848567

2021

Anceschi, L. (2021) After personalism: rethinking power transfers in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 51(4), pp. 660-680. (doi: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1772853)

2020

Anceschi, L. (2020) Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era. Series: Central Asia research forum. Routledge. ISBN 9780415711432 (doi: 10.4324/9781315674698)

Anceschi, L. and Smith, D. J. (2020) From the Editors. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1705613)

2017

Anceschi, L. (2017) Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism and Nazarbayev’s anti-imperial foreign policy. In: Bassin, M. and Pozo, G. (eds.) The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Culture and Russia’s Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., pp. 283-300. ISBN 9781786601612

Anceschi, L. (2017) Turkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy: the case of the TAPI pipeline project. Central Asian Survey, 36(4), pp. 409-429. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2017.1391747)

2015

Anceschi, L. (2015) The irreplaceables in Central Asia. Open Democracy, 2015, 24 Apr.

Anceschi, L. (2015) The persistence of media control under consolidated authoritarianism: containing Kazakhstan’s digital media. Demokratizatsiya, 23(3), pp. 277-295.

2014

Anceschi, L. , Gervasio, G. and Teti, A. (Eds.) (2014) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, L. (2014) Authoritarian informality: elite centralization in Turkmenistan. In: Anceschi, L., Gervasio, G. and Teti, A. (eds.) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon, pp. 190-206. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, L. (2014) Dilemmas of compatibility: GCC-Kazakhstani relations. Journal of Arabian Studies, 4(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1080/21534764.2014.918466)

Anceschi, L. (2014) The importance of (not) being a stan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2014) Regime-building, identity-making and foreign policy: neo-Eurasianist rhetoric in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Nationalities Papers, 42(5), pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1080/00905992.2014.928276)

Anceschi, L. (2014) The tyranny of pragmatism: EU–Kazakhstani relations. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.864101)

2013

Anceschi, L. (2013) Belusconi’s l’amico Nursultan, and the Shalabayeva affair. Open Democracy,

2012

Anceschi, L. and Symons, J. (Eds.) (2012) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230279872

Anceschi, L. (2012) Central Asia: succession planning in dictatorships. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Central Asian Islam: activism, radicalism, and opposition. Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Change put on hold in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Elections in Turkmenistan: Niyazovshchina redux? Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Energy governance and climate change: Central Asia’s uneasy nexus. In: Anceschi, L. and Symons, J. (eds.) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 180-197. ISBN 9780230279872

Anceschi, L. (2012) When it’s not time for change: Russia, China and the Arab revolutions. In: Akbarzadeh, S., Isakhan, B. and Mansouri, F. (eds.) The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a Changing Middle East. Series: Islamic studies series. Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, pp. 131-152. ISBN 9780522861600

2011

Anceschi, L. (2011) Reinforcing authoritarianism through media control: the case of post-Soviet Turkmenistan. In: Freeman, E. and Shafer, R. (eds.) After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia. Series: Eurasion political economy and public policy study series. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, MI, pp. 59-77. ISBN 9781611860054

Anceschi, L. and Akbarzadeh, S. (2011) Central Asia: pragmatism in action. In: Akbarzadeh, S. (ed.) America’s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration’s Policies. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 217-235. ISBN 9780230112773

2010

Anceschi, L. (2010) External conditionality, domestic insulation and energy security: The international politics of post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3), pp. 93-114.

Anceschi, L. (2010) Integrating domestic politics and foreign policy making: the cases of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey, 29(2), pp. 143-158. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2010.498231)

Anceschi, L. and Peyrouse, S. (2010) Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3),

2009

Anceschi, L. , Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) Europe, the United States and the Islamic world: conceptualising a triangular relationship. International Politics, 46(5), pp. 505-516.

Anceschi, L. , Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) The Islamic world between Europe and the United States. International Politics, 46(5),

2008

Anceschi, L. (2008) Analysing Turkmen foreign policy in the Berdymuhammedov Era. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 6(4), pp. 35-48.

Anceschi, L. (2008) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime. Series: Central Asian studies series. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415454407

2005

Anceschi, L. (2005) Asia Centrale post-sovietica: Cosa c’è dopo la pianificazione centralizzata? Oriente Moderno, 85(2-3), pp. 254-268.

Anceschi, L. (2005) La nottola di Minerva sull’Asia Centrale. Elezioni ed autoritarismo nel Kyrgyzstan post-sovietico (1990 – 2005). Meridione, 5(3), pp. 186-214.

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Number of items: 37.

Articles

Anceschi, L. (2021) After personalism: rethinking power transfers in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 51(4), pp. 660-680. (doi: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1772853)

Anceschi, L. and Smith, D. J. (2020) From the Editors. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1705613)

Anceschi, L. (2017) Turkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy: the case of the TAPI pipeline project. Central Asian Survey, 36(4), pp. 409-429. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2017.1391747)

Anceschi, L. (2015) The irreplaceables in Central Asia. Open Democracy, 2015, 24 Apr.

Anceschi, L. (2015) The persistence of media control under consolidated authoritarianism: containing Kazakhstan’s digital media. Demokratizatsiya, 23(3), pp. 277-295.

Anceschi, L. (2014) Dilemmas of compatibility: GCC-Kazakhstani relations. Journal of Arabian Studies, 4(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1080/21534764.2014.918466)

Anceschi, L. (2014) The importance of (not) being a stan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2014) Regime-building, identity-making and foreign policy: neo-Eurasianist rhetoric in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Nationalities Papers, 42(5), pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1080/00905992.2014.928276)

Anceschi, L. (2014) The tyranny of pragmatism: EU–Kazakhstani relations. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.864101)

Anceschi, L. (2013) Belusconi’s l’amico Nursultan, and the Shalabayeva affair. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Central Asia: succession planning in dictatorships. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Central Asian Islam: activism, radicalism, and opposition. Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Change put on hold in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. (2012) Elections in Turkmenistan: Niyazovshchina redux? Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. (2010) External conditionality, domestic insulation and energy security: The international politics of post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3), pp. 93-114.

Anceschi, L. (2010) Integrating domestic politics and foreign policy making: the cases of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey, 29(2), pp. 143-158. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2010.498231)

Anceschi, L. and Peyrouse, S. (2010) Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3),

Anceschi, L. , Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) Europe, the United States and the Islamic world: conceptualising a triangular relationship. International Politics, 46(5), pp. 505-516.

Anceschi, L. , Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) The Islamic world between Europe and the United States. International Politics, 46(5),

Anceschi, L. (2008) Analysing Turkmen foreign policy in the Berdymuhammedov Era. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 6(4), pp. 35-48.

Anceschi, L. (2005) Asia Centrale post-sovietica: Cosa c’è dopo la pianificazione centralizzata? Oriente Moderno, 85(2-3), pp. 254-268.

Anceschi, L. (2005) La nottola di Minerva sull’Asia Centrale. Elezioni ed autoritarismo nel Kyrgyzstan post-sovietico (1990 – 2005). Meridione, 5(3), pp. 186-214.

Books

Anceschi, L. (2020) Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era. Series: Central Asia research forum. Routledge. ISBN 9780415711432 (doi: 10.4324/9781315674698)

Anceschi, L. (2008) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime. Series: Central Asian studies series. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415454407

Book Sections

Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (2024) On 'new' and 'old' personal rule: concluding remarks. In: Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 312-332. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, L. (2024) Personalist rule and regime continuity in Central Asia. In: Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 205-230. ISBN 9780192848567

Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (2024) Introduction: Personalism and Personalist Regimes. In: Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, L. (2017) Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism and Nazarbayev’s anti-imperial foreign policy. In: Bassin, M. and Pozo, G. (eds.) The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Culture and Russia’s Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., pp. 283-300. ISBN 9781786601612

Anceschi, L. (2014) Authoritarian informality: elite centralization in Turkmenistan. In: Anceschi, L., Gervasio, G. and Teti, A. (eds.) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon, pp. 190-206. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, L. (2012) Energy governance and climate change: Central Asia’s uneasy nexus. In: Anceschi, L. and Symons, J. (eds.) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 180-197. ISBN 9780230279872

Anceschi, L. (2012) When it’s not time for change: Russia, China and the Arab revolutions. In: Akbarzadeh, S., Isakhan, B. and Mansouri, F. (eds.) The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a Changing Middle East. Series: Islamic studies series. Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, pp. 131-152. ISBN 9780522861600

Anceschi, L. (2011) Reinforcing authoritarianism through media control: the case of post-Soviet Turkmenistan. In: Freeman, E. and Shafer, R. (eds.) After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia. Series: Eurasion political economy and public policy study series. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, MI, pp. 59-77. ISBN 9781611860054

Anceschi, L. and Akbarzadeh, S. (2011) Central Asia: pragmatism in action. In: Akbarzadeh, S. (ed.) America’s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration’s Policies. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 217-235. ISBN 9780230112773

Book Reviews

Anceschi, L. (2024) The global history of the Atomic Steppe. Central Asian Affairs, 11(2), pp. 191-193. (doi: 10.30965/22142290-12340032)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Baturo, A., Anceschi, L. and Cavatorta, F. (Eds.) (2024) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, L. , Gervasio, G. and Teti, A. (Eds.) (2014) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, L. and Symons, J. (Eds.) (2012) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230279872

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Supervision

I am happy to consider proposals from students interested in pursuing postgraduate research related to any of the following areas:

  • Politics and International Relations of post-Soviet Central Asia
  • Eurasian security (both traditional and non-traditional)
  • Eurasian integration, especially the Eurasian Economic Union
  • The geopolitics of Eurasian energy
  • Comparative authoritarianism

 

Currently supervised students:

 

  • Gabdullin, Gabit
    Eurasian Economic Union: Political and socio-economic implications
  • Heneghan, Matthew
    Remittance Regimes: Migrational (inter)dependencies between Russia and Eurasia and the comparative effects on political and institutional development
  • Khalafov, Teymur
    Natural Resource Funds (NRFs) in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan - unexpected efficiency
  • Kobilov, Firdavs
    Uzbekistan’s modern foreign policy

Doctoral supervision: Past students

 

Paolo Sorbello, Industrial Relations in Kazakhstan's Oil Sector [1991-2019]

Julia Schwab, Understanding resource nationalism in Russia and Kazakhstan: A mixed-method case study of frames, narratives, and imaginaries around Sakhalin-2 and Kashagan

Teaching

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