Celebrating Professor Raymond Hinnebusch’s Retirement and Legacy at St Andrews

Professor Raymond Hinnebusch retired in summer 2025 after almost thirty years of dedicated service to the University of St Andrews. Professor Hinnebusch took up a position as Professor at the University in 1996.

In 2002, he co-founded the Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS) to bring together scholars of the three regions in the different Schools of the University, which is housed and managed in the School of International Relations. He also co-founded the MLitt in Middle East, Central Asian and Caucasus Security Studies (MECCASS) in 2003, and the Centre for Syrian Studies (CSS) in 2008.

On 18 November 2025, to celebrate Professor Hinnebusch's achievements and contributions to scholarship of International Relations, MECACS and CSS held the event Reflections on trends and advances in the study of war, sectarianism, international intervention in Syria and the wider Middle East, bringing together colleagues at St Andrews and internationally, as well as past and current students.