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MECACS Roundtable

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 briefings and contributions to governments, NGOs and media, and given many papers and invited lectures and keynote addresses in the UK and overseas.

Natia Gamkrelidze is a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCCAR) Center at Malmo University. She is an expert on Russia, the United States, European Union, and NATO policy toward the post-Soviet region.

Michel Vincent Anderlini is an assistant senior lecturer in global political studies since September 2024. His research interests revolve around the EU's relations with the post-Soviet region, with a specific focus on the implementation of EU norms and policies in Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. He teaches on the Bachelor's programs European Studies and Political Science.
Expertise and research areas: – The EU as a global actor – Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova – Public administration in the post-Soviet region