Prof Rick Fawn
Professor
Research areas
Professor Rick Fawn is a specialist on international security, with a geographic concentration on the former communist space. He has conducted research in and published on Central Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. He has also made numerous invited contributions to governments and media and given many papers and invited lectures and keynote addresses in the UK and overseas.
Dr Fawn has received research grants from various bodies, including the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, the Russell Trust, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland; and was a coordinator of the 8-University £4,700,000 ESRC/AHRC-funded Centre of Excellence, the Centre for Russian and Central and East European Studies (CRCEES).
He was the recipient of a European Union Marie Curie ITN grant valued at 580,000Euro for St Andrews.
Having previous been Director of the University's Centre for Russia and East European Studies, he is currently Director of the Institute for the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies.
Member of the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Institute; Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies; and the Centre for Russian, Soviet and Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of St Andrews.
BOOKS
- Managing Security Threats along the EU’s Eastern Flanks (as editor, Palgrave, 2020), 275pp.
- International Organizations and Internal Conditionality: Making Norms Matter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 328pp.
- Georgia: Revolution and War (as editor, Routledge, 2013)
- Historical Dictionary of the Czech State (co-authored with Jiri Hochman; 2010), 440pp.
- Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the Global (Cambridge University Press, 2009; as editor), 261pp.
- The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006; co-edited with Raymond Hinnebusch), 357pp.
- Ideology and National Identity in Post-communist Foreign Policies (Routledge, 2003, as editor), 241pp.
- Global Responses to Terrorism: 9/11, Afghanistan and Beyond (Routledge, 2003; co-edited with Mary Buckley), 334 pp.
- Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy (Routledge, as editor, 2003).
- Russia after Communism (Routledge, 2002, as co-editor with Stephen White).
- The Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2001; as co-editor with Andrew Dawson).
- The Czech Republic: A Nation of Velvet (Routledge, 2000).
- International Society after the Cold War: Anarchy and Order Reconsidered (Macmillan, 1996, as co-editor with Jeremy Larkins), 302 pp.
* The author also of some four dozen refereed articles and book chapters as well as numerous policy-related, media and other written submissions.
PhD supervision
- Erin Sindle
- Huseyin Nurlu
- Maria Chatzitheodorou
- Erin Sindle
Selected publications
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Kulaty stul: Tri dekady ceske zahranicni politiky pohledem zvenku: Round Table: Three Decades of Czech Foreign Policy from the Outside
Fawn, R., 2024, Mezinarodni Politika, p. 4-7.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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Defending democratization: how the OSCE’s ODIHR can counteract Russian authoritarian influence
Fawn, R., 21 Aug 2023, Power 3.0: Understanding Modern Authoritarian Influence.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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Open access
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices
Fawn, R., Kluczewska, K. & Korneev, O., 1 Feb 2023, In: Central Asian Survey. 41, 4, p. 617–638 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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European-Central Asian international election observation cooperation and contestation
Fawn, R., 31 May 2023, European-Central Asia relations: new connectivity frameworks. Khan, K. H. & Mihr, A. (eds.). Singapore: Springer Singapore, p. 157-190 34 p. (Europe-Asia connectivity).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
The Limits and Potential of Consensus in Times of Crisis
Fawn, R. & Fawn, R., 2023, 11 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Open access
Visegrad and Ukraine since Maidan 2013-2014 and the Russian invasion of 2022
Fawn, R. & Drobysh, I., 4 Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Europe-Asia Studies. Latest Articles, 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'Strasbourg' in the South Caucasus: the EU’s opportunities, obstacles, and incentives
Fawn, R., 8 Jul 2022, In: Baku Dialogues. 5, 4, p. 98-113Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Abkhazia: six enduring reflections from the 1990s
Fawn, R., 14 Aug 2022, Abkhazia 1992-2022. Sönmez, M. & Hewitt, G. (eds.). S.l. , p. 311-316 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Building the West's on-ramp to China's Belt and Road: opportunities in the South Caucasus
Fawn, R. & Bruder, J., 1 Jul 2022, In: Orbis. 66, 3, p. 350-372Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The OSCE: injured but saveable
Fawn, R., 1 Jun 2022, Russia's war against Ukraine: implications for the future of OSCE. Friesendorf, C. & Wolff, S. (eds.). Vienna: OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, p. 26-28 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter