Despite the growing complexity and multidimensionality of the system of international research collaborations, the colonial discourse casting the collaborative relationships in terms of polarized North–South antitheses persists and continues to exert influence on the nature of power distribution in the relationships, as well as on the conceptualization of some players in the relationship as superior donors, whereas others as inferior recipients. In this article, I demonstrate how dichotomic representation of the geopolitical entities involved in international research collaboration fails to acknowledge the existence and marginalizes a large and extremely talented academic community of Eurasian scholars, which has the potential to enrich and transform the global knowledge system if it becomes more actively and authoritatively involved in the international system of ideas exchange and knowledge generation. I argue that this invisibilization of post-Soviet research community is part of the logic of postcolonial governmentality, which creates the demand and draws the post-Soviet world into international trade in knowledge-related expert services, whereby profits and benefits from the trade are reaped by the countries, which self-categorize as the North, while undermining the potential of the former Soviet scholarly community to contribute to global knowledge production on equal terms.

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隐秘的欧亚大陆：南北二分法如何使国际研究合作中的后苏联学者边缘化

尽管国际研究合作体系的复杂性和多维性日益增长，但根据南北对立的极化关系建立合作关系的殖民话语仍然存在，并继续对关系中权力分配的性质以及对权力关系的影响。关系中的一些参与者被概念化为上级捐赠者，而其他人则被视为劣质接收者。在本文中，我演示了参与国际研究合作的地缘政治实体的二分法表示如何无法承认其存在，并使边缘化的欧亚学者庞大而才华横溢的学术界边缘化，如果它更加积极和权威地参与国际思想交流和知识生成系统，则有可能丰富和改变全球知识体系。我认为，后苏联研究界的这种不稳定性是后殖民政府统治逻辑的一部分，它创造了需求，并将后苏联世界吸引到了与知识有关的专家服务的国际贸易中，从而从该贸易中获得利润和收益。这些国家被归类为北方，而这削弱了前苏联学术界为平等发展全球知识做出贡献的潜力。