Professor Karen E Smith

Karen E Smith is Professor of International Relations at LSE. Her main research interests lie in the fields of foreign policy analysis and the study of international organisations. She has recently published on feminist foreign policy, the role of women in diplomacy and foreign policy-making, the European Union’s diplomacy at the United Nations, and the role of groups in UN multilateralism.

She has also written on the formulation and implementation of common EU foreign policies, including the EU’s pursuit of ‘ethical’ foreign policy goals such as promoting human rights and democracy, and policy-making within European states regarding genocide. She has a strong interest in the role that emotions can play in EU foreign policy-making. She is currently investigating the role of women in foreign policy-making and has used Foreign Policy Analysis to try to explain feminist foreign policies. She is also the Director of the Women in Diplomacy project at LSE IDEAS.

Karen E Smith supervises doctoral studies in areas including:
EU foreign relations, EU foreign policy-making, human rights policies, feminist foreign policy, gender and diplomacy.

Expertise

International relations of the European Union, EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, feminist foreign policy, gender and diplomacy, human rights and foreign policy, genocide.