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Katherine Pye

IRD Fellow
Department of International Relations

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Katherine is an IRD Fellow and a PhD candidate at the LSE’s Department of International Relations, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Her research contributes to the fields of intervention and peacebuilding studies, European foreign policy, EU-Africa relations and political psychology/psychoanalysis.

She is interested in the everyday meaning-making of European staff and how they relate to their work in long-running intervention contexts in Africa, using the case study of the EU’s decade-long involvement in the Sahel region. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform where she writes about the politics of the EU’s trade, security and migration relationship with Africa. She was previously Deputy Editor for Vol. 51 for Millennium: Journal of International Studies.

She has a BA in History and Politics from Magdalen College, Oxford and an MA in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges. Prior to her doctoral work she was a researcher on EU foreign and security policy in Africa in several EU affairs think tanks and worked on civilian crisis response at the Council of the EU.

Research topic

EU security assistance and peacebuilding in the Sahel

Academic supervisor

Professor Karen E Smith

Research Cluster affiliation

Theory/Area/History research cluster

Security and Statecraft research cluster

Read or download Katherine's CV [PDF]

Expertise

Intervention, security assistance, EU in Africa, meaning making, political psychology