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Professor Mervyn Bain

Professor Mervyn Bain
Professor Mervyn Bain
Professor Mervyn Bain

MA, MLitt, PhD

Personal Chair

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Email Address
mervyn.bain@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272717
Office Address

F30, Edward Wright Building

School/Department
School of Social Science

Biography

Mervyn Bain was appointed as a Teaching Fellow in June 2004 and in June 2005 he was appointed as a Lecturer. In 2011 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer before in 2019 being promoted to a Personal Chair in International Relations. He obtained his undergraduate, Masters and PhD degrees all from the University of Glasgow. From February 2017 to December 2022 he was Head of School of Social Science.

Qualifications

  • PhD Politics 
    2003 - University of Glasgow 
  • MLitt Latin American Development 
    1997 - University of Glasgow 
  • MA Modern History 
    1995 - University of Glasgow 
Research

Research Overview

International Diplomatic Relations
Latin America and in particular Cuba
Soviet and Post Soviet Russia
Development Issues

For the above topics I have received funding from The British Academy, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

PI1018 Politics and International Relations 1: Democracy and Governance

PI3069 Researching in the 21st Century 

PI3565 Soviet and Post Soviet Russian Foreign Policy

IR4003 Modern Day Latin America

Publications

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  • Cuban-Soviet Relations; from ‘sovietisation’ to reform processes: Insights from the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba (MINREX)

    Bain, M.
    Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 567-592
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Cuba

    Bain, M.
    The Palgrave Geopolitical Atlas: State and Quasi-State Actors in Great Power Competition. Fong, B. C. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 347-359, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
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  • Havana-Moscow Relations: When Politics and Trade Depart

    Bain, M.
    The Latin Americanist, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 428-453
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  • Contemporary Havana-Moscow Relations: An Enduring Friendship in an Everchanging Global Context

    Bain, M.
    Cuba in the Multipolar World Order. Domínguez López, E., López, D., Pfeiffer, C. (eds.). Springer, pp. 113-134, 22 pages
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  • Moscow-Havana Relations. Continuities of the past in an Asymmetric Triangle

    Bain, M.
    The International History Review, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 191-208
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  • Havana, Moscow and International Crises. Implications for Asymmetry

    Bain, M.
    International Politics
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  • Havana-Moscow Relations following Fidel and Raúl Castro

    Bain, M.
    Contemporary Cuba: The Post-Castro Era. Bastian, H., Brenner, P., Kirk, J., LeoGrande, W. (eds.). Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 228-236, 9 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • The End of the Soviet Union Revisited: Evidence from Ministerial de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba (MINREX

    Bain, M.
    Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 343-364
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  • Британские экономисты, меркантилизм и международная торговля (семнадцатый и восемнадцатый века)

    Bain, M.
    Великобритания и Латинская Америка (XVI-XXI вв.). Larin, E. (ed.). Nauka, pp. 84-97, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Великобритания, Куба и колониальные захваты XVIII–XIX вв.

    Bain, M.
    Великобритания и Латинская Америка (XVI-XXI вв.). Larin, E. (ed.). Nauka, pp. 108-121, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Indian-Russian Relations in the Period of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government, 2004 to 2014

    Bain, M.
    Forging New Partnerships, Breaching New Frontiers: Indian Diplomacy during the UPA rule 2004-14. Laskar, R. (ed.). Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 116-129, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Conclusions: Reflections on Cuba’s Global Connections

    Bain, M., Walker, C.
    Cuban International Relations at 60: Reflections on Global Connections. Bain, M. J., Walker, C. (eds.). Lexington Books, pp. 275-280, 6 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Cuba-European Union Relations: A Complex and Multifaceted Relationship

    Fernández Mollinedo, L., Bain, M.
    Cuban International Relations at 60: Reflections on Global Connections. BAIN, M. J., WALKER, C. (eds.). Lexington Books, pp. 157-172, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Cuban International Relations at 60: Reflections on Global Connections

    Bain, M. (ed.), Walker, C. (ed.)
    Lexington Books. 338 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Havana and Moscow: Now, the Future and the Shadow of the Past

    Bain, M.
    Cuban International Relations at 60: Reflections on Global Connections. Bain, M. J., Walker, C. (eds.). Lexington Books, pp. 173-193, 21 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Introduction: Reflections on Cuba’s Global Connections (1959-2019)

    Bain, M., Walker, C.
    Cuban International Relations at 60: Reflections on Global Connections. Bain, M. J., Walker, C. (eds.). Lexington Books, pp. 1-14, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Британские экономисты, меркантилизм и международная торговля (XVII – XVIII вв.)

    Bain, M. J.
    Latin-American Historical Almanac, vol. 23, pp. 277-284
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  • Moscow and Havana 1917 to the Present: An Enduring Friendship in an Ever-Changing Global Context

    Bain, M. J.
    Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham. 296 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
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  • Fulgencio Batista and the Soviet Union

    Bain, M.
    Latin America Almanac. Latin American Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 96-104, 9 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Latin America

    Oelsner, A., Bain, M. J.
    Democratization. Haerpfer, C., Bernhagen, P., Welzel, C., Inglehart, R. (eds.). Second edition. Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 305-321, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Havana and Moscow in the 1970s; ‘sovietization’ in an era of détente

    Bain, M. J.
    Cuba's Forgotten Decade: How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution. Kirk, E. J., Clayfield, A., Story, I. (eds.). Lexington Books, pp. 23-40, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Raúl Castro and Cuban-Russian Relations, 2008-2018

    Bain, M. J.
    Cuban Foreign Policy: Transformation under Raúl Castro. Erisman, H. M., Kirk, J. H. (eds.). Rowman and Littlefield
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Russo–Cuban Relations in the 1990s

    Bain, M. J.
    Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 255-273
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  • Havana, Moscow and Beijing: Looking to the Future in the Shadow of the Past

    Bain, M. J.
    Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 507-526
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  • Russia, Cuba and colonial legacies in the twenty-first century

    Bain, M. J.
    Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-17
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  • How Fidel Castro changed Cuba: a small island at the centre of the world

    Bain, M.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
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  • Havana, Moscow and Washington: Triangular Relationship at a Time of Change?

    Bain, M. J.
    The Latin Americanist, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 323-346
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  • Cuba is reheating relations with Russia and US at the same time

    Bain, M.
    The Conversation
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  • Moscow, Havana and Asymmetry in International Relations

    Bain, M.
    Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1044-1060
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  • Cuba: Trapped by history – Still?

    Bain, M., Mollinedo, L. F.
    International Politics, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 260-276
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  • “Back to the future?” Cuban–Russian relations under Raúl Castro

    Bain, M. J.
    Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 48, no. 2-3, pp. 159-168
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  • After a tense 50 years, Obama and Castro announce US-Cuba thaw

    Bain, M.
    The Conversation
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
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  • Cuba and Russia at a Time of Change

    Bain, M.
    International Relations and Diplomacy, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 451-461
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  • From Lenin to Castro, 1917-1959: Early Encounters between Moscow and Havana

    Bain, M. J.
    Lexington Books, Lanham. 170 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Havana and Moscow in the Post-Soviet World

    Bain, M. J.
    Caviar With Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience. Loss, J., Prieto, J. M. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 239-249, 11 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Havana and Moscow: The Washington Factor

    Bain, M. J.
    Fifty Years of Revolution: Perspectives on Cuba, the United States and the World. Castro Marino, S., Pruessen, R. (eds.). University Press of Florida, pp. 72-89, 18 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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  • Revolution to revolution: Moscow and Havana from 1917 to 1959

    Bain, M. J.
    Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-22
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  • Russia and Cuba: "doomed" comrades?

    Bain, M. J.
    Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 111-118
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  • Moscow, Havana and Neoliberal Economic Thinking

    Bain, M. J.
    The Latin Americanist, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 5-23
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  • A new era in Russian-Cuban relations?

    Bain, M. J.
    The International Journal of Cuban Studies , vol. 2, no. 1-2, pp. 39-49
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  • Havana and Moscow, 1959–2009: the enduring relationship?

    Bain, M. J.
    Cuban Studies, vol. 41, no. -, pp. 126-142
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  • Latin America

    Oelsner, A., Bain, M.
    Democratization. Haerpfer, C. W., Bernhagen, P., Inglehart, R. F., Welzel, C. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 290-308, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Havana, Moscow and the Neoliberal Economic Model

    Bain, M. J.
    International Politics, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 594-612
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Russian-Cuban Relations Since 1992: Continuing Camaraderie in a Post-Soviet World

    Bain, M. J.
    Lexington Books. 174 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1985 to 1991: Changing Perceptions in Moscow and Havana

    Bain, M. J.
    Lexington Books. 149 pages
    Books and Reports: Books

  • Triangle of Mistrust: Washington, Moscow and Havana

    Bain, M. J.
    Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 145-162
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Globalization in Havana and Moscow

    Bain, M. J.
    Cuba in Transition?, Pathways to Renewal, Long-Term Development and Global Reintegration, pp.175-188.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Gorbachev's Legacy for Russian-Cuban Relations in the 1990s

    Bain, M. J.
    Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy. 'The Impact of the "Special Period", pp. 212-232, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Cuba-Soviet Relations in the Gorbachev Era

    Bain, M. J.
    Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 769-791
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  • The Glasnost Effect on Soviet/Cuban Relations in the Gorbachev Era

    Bain, M. J.
    Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 125-142
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