Department of Development Studies

Dr Patrick Meehan

Key information

Roles
Department of Development Studies Senior Teaching Fellow in 2016/17
Qualifications
BA (Oxford) History, MSC & PhD(SOAS) Development Studies
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
296
Email address
pm42@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
0207 898 4521

Biography

My research explores the political economy of violence, conflict and development, and engages
specifically with the relationship between illicit economies and processes of state-building and
peace-building in borderland and frontier regions with a primary focus on Myanmar’s borderlands
with China. I completed my PhD on this subject in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS
in 2016 and I am now a Co-Investigator on a £7 million research project entitled 'Drugs and
(dis)order: Building sustainable peacetime economies in the aftermath of war’, which focuses on
Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.

Publications

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