Edward Schatz

Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies
Director, Belt and Road in Global Perspective
Director, Eurasia Initiative
Professor, Department of Political Science

Trinity College
1 Devonshire Place 
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7 Canada

Edward Schatz

Areas of interest

  • Eurasia
  • Belt and Road Initiative
  • Central Asia

Biography

Main Bio

Edward Schatz is the Director of the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His books include Seeing China's Belt and Road (Oxford 2024, co-edited with Rachel Silvey), as well as Slow Anti-Americanism (Stanford UP, 2021)  Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central AsiaParadox of Power (co-edited with John Heathershaw, Pittsburgh, 2017), Political Ethnography (edited, U. Chicago Press, 2009), and Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond (Washington, 2004).