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Welcome to the Institute of Middle Eastern, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies! We are an interdisciplinary research institute situated in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. On these pages, you will find details of our research, events and opportunities to participate in the work of MECACS. We welcome queries from prospective students, academics and practitioners, media and policymakers from or on the studied regions.
Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states’ response to the Ukrainian crisis – A Seminar with Dr. Timur Dadabaev
Dr. Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University…
Special issue on EU-Central Asian interactions, Central Asia Survey, Vol. 41, No, 4, December 2022
The new special issue ‘EU-Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices’, co-edited by the former director of MECACS Rick Fawn, together with Karolina Kluczewska and Oleg Korneev, has just been…
MECACS Director Dr Fiona McCallum Guiney has published two articles from her EU-funded project Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe
The first article ‘Generational perspectives on homeland-oriented diasporic humanitarianism: Coptic, Assyrian and Iraqi Christian charities in the UK.’ Is available open access in International Migration Review. The article explores generational…
MECACS Reads Issue #1