Research Centres


• The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) aims to maintain a forum committed to advancing critical theoretical, conceptual and empirical understandings of the development of responses to conflict and the construction of peace. In particular it aims to interrogate the relationship between conflict and the forms of ‘peace’ being created in conflict zones mainly in the developing world today. It is currently hosting a number of research projects to this end.


• The Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES) aims to promote the study of Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe by bringing together staff and students from different academic disciplines with interests in this field.


• The Centre for Syrian Studies (CSS) fosters scholarship and dialogue about Syria and exchanges between Syrian, British and other scholars. It undertakes research and holds conferences on contemporary Syria, specifically on economic and political reform in Syria and on security and foreign policy issues concerning Syria. The Centre also publishes the St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria.


• The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) is one of the oldest and most respected centres in its field. CSTPV is dedicated to policy-relevant, empirical research and teaching on determinants, manifestations and consequences of terrorism and state and societal responses to terrorism and political violence in all its forms.


• The Institute of Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Caucasus Studies (MECACS) aims to stimulate interdisciplinary discourse, research and teaching on this geographic area by providing venues to bring together specialists and scholars in the field across the University’s diverse Schools and disciplines, especially in the partner Schools of International Relations and History.


• The Centre for Global Constitutionalism (CGC) provides an institutional home for the exploration of rights, rules and responsibilities at the global level. The Centre aims to provide conceptual clarity to the idea of global constitutionalism and to ameliorate conflicts at the global level that arise from a lack of understanding of how the international legal and political order intersect.


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