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The School of Social Science

Professor Mervyn Bain

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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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
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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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Havana, Moscow and International Crises. Implications for Asymmetry

    Bain, M.
    International Politics
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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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
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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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
    • [ONLINE]
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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
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    • [ONLINE]

  • Британские экономисты, меркантилизм и международная торговля (XVII – XVIII вв.)

    Bain, M. J.
    Latin-American Historical Almanac, vol. 23, pp. 277-284
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE]
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    • [ONLINE]

  • 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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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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
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Russia, Cuba and colonial legacies in the twenty-first century

    Bain, M. J.
    Journal of Transatlantic Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-17
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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