About
Katherine is an IRD Fellow and PhD alumnus 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 conflict studies, European foreign policy, EU-Africa relations and political 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 policies on the African continent. 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 Cluster affiliation
Theory/Area/History research cluster
Security and Statecraft research cluster
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Expertise
Intervention, conflict, EU in Africa, military assistance, meaning making, political psycholoanalysis, interpretive methods
Research
The Sahel: Europe’s forever war?
Blog Post
Author Katherine Pye
Europe needs a strong Africa, but will it work to achieve one?
Blog Post
Author Katherine Pye
Teaching
- IR205: International Security (LSE)
- IR434: European Defence and Security (LSE)