Mrs Kasia Houghton

Research Associate

Researcher profile

Email

kad22@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Kasia A. Houghton is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher at the School if International Relations at the University of St Andrews and Research Associate with the PeaceRep consortium. Her doctoral research focuses on Russian intervention in the Syrian conflict and her broader research is primarily on Russian and Chinese grey zone strategies and interventions in conflict and post-conflict areas. She is a fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies and Centre for Global Law and Governance at the University of St Andrews.

Selected publications

• The BRI in conflict zones: the case of Syria

  Houghton, K. A., 1 Jan 2024, China moves West: the evolving strategies of the Belt and Road Initiative. Ehteshami, A., Houghton, B. & Liu, J. (eds.). Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, p. 135-154 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: the contest for supremacy

  Houghton, B. (ed.) & Houghton, K. A. (ed.), 1 Dec 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 244 p. (Changing dynamics in Asia-Middle East relations)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Congestion and Diversification of Third-Party Mediation in Sudan and South Sudan: First Look at some Longer-Term Trends

  Peter, M. & Houghton, K. A., 2023

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Introduction: great power competition and the Middle East

  Houghton, K. A. & Houghton, B., 1 Dec 2023, China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: the contest for supremacy. Houghton, B. & Houghton, K. A. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 3-11 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Looking through the Lens of the Syrian Conflict: Russia Seeks Status through the Middle East

  Houghton, K. A., 4 Apr 2023

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• The competition over norms: the case of the Syrian conflict

  Houghton, K. A., 1 Dec 2023, China, Russia, and the USA in the Middle East: the contest for supremacy. Houghton, B. & Houghton, K. A. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 46-64 19 p. (Changing dynamics in Asia-Middle East relations).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Written evidence submitted by Kasia A. Houghton (MENA0063): For the Foreign Affairs Committee's inquiry into the UK's engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

  Houghton, K. A., 18 Dec 2023

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Russia in the Syrian Conflict: An Imperial Power?

  Houghton, K. A., 2022, (In preparation).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

 

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