Smith Karen : curriculum vitae

Dr Karen E Smith is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Her research interests focus on EU foreign policy, and principally the role of ‘normative issues’ such as the promotion of human rights and democratic principles in the EU’s foreign relations. She is a leading member of the European Foreign Policy research network FORNET, and the editor of the bi-monthly CFSP Forum (www.fornet.info). Recent publications include:

Books:

The Making of EU Foreign Policy: The Case of Eastern Europe (2nd edition, Palgrave, 2004).

European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World (Polity Press, 2003).

With Margot Light, eds, Ethics and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Articles:

‘Understanding the European Foreign Policy System’ (review article), Contemporary European History, vol. 12, no. 2, 2003.

‘The European Union: A Distinctive Actor in International Relations’, Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 9, no 2, 2003.

‘The Conditional Offer of Membership as an Instrument of EU Foreign Policy: Reshaping Europe in the EU’s Image?’, Marmara Journal of European Studies, nos. 1-2, 2000.

‘The End of Civilian Power EU: A Welcome Demise or Cause for Concern?’, The International Spectator, vol. 35, no. 2, April-June 2000.

‘The Use of Political Conditionality in the EU’s Relations with Third Countries: How Effective?’, European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 1998.

Chapters:

‘The ACP in the European Union’s Network of Regional Relationships: Still Unique or Just One in the Crowd?’, in Karin Arts and Anna Dickson, eds, European Union Development Cooperation: From Model to Symbol (Manchester University Press, 2004).

With Helene Sjursen, ‘Justifying EU Foreign Policy: The Logics Underpinning EU Enlargement’, in Thomas Christiansen and Ben Tonra, eds, Rethinking EU Foreign Policy (Manchester University Press, 2004).

‘External Relations’, in Michelle Cini, ed., EU Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

‘The Evolution and Application of EU Membership Conditionality’, in Marise Cremona, ed., Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law: Enlargement of the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2003)

‘The EU, Human Rights and Relations with Third Countries: «Foreign Policy» with an Ethical Dimension?’, in Karen E. Smith and Margot Light, eds, Ethics and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2001)