Professor Hazel Smith

Professor of Resilience and Security
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: h.smith@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)01793 785471
Department of Management and Security

Current activities

Hazel Smith is Professor of Security and Resilience at Cranfield University, UK. She was previously Professor of International Relations at the University of Warwick where she taught international relations theory from 1998 to 2009; POSCO visiting fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, (Summer 2008); Jennings Randolph Visiting Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C. (2001-2002); and a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University (1994 to 1995). Her books include four monographs, for example, Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea (2005), and six edited books, including Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer (2007); (with Paul Stares) Diasporas in Conflict (2007); and (with Larry Minear) Humanitarian Diplomacy (2007). Professor Smith is currently completing another monograph, commissioned by Cambridge University Press, on the social, economic and political transformation of North Korea since the famine of the early 1990s.

Professor Smith's main areas of research include:

DPR Korea (North Korea)
East Asian security
International Humanitarianism
Food aid
Human, national and international security
Relationship between interdisciplinary resilience discourse and human, national and international security theory and practice

Background

Professor Smith received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1992.
Professor Smith was a visiting fellow at the Politics, Governance and Security programme at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii (Summer 2008) after winning the prestigious annually awarded international POSCO fellowship. From 2001 to 2002 Professor Smith was in Washington DC after being awarded the internationally competitive Jennings Randolph Visiting Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Between 2005 and 2004 she was on secondment to the United Nations University in Tokyo as Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance programme. Professor Smith was a Fulbright scholar and visiting fellow at Stanford University in 1994/95.
Professor Smith has worked for a number of United Nations agencies in the field and HQ positions e.g. in Nepal, Tokyo, Rome and Pyongyang. Between 2000 and 2001 when Professor Smith was on research leave in the DPR Korea (North Korea) working for the United Nations World Food Programme she directed and managed the team that designed, developed, negotiated (with the DPRK government) and implemented the information, monitoring, evaluation and reporting system for the humanitarian assistance programme for the DPRK, one of the largest food aid operation in WFP's history.
Professor Smith commentates for the international media on the DPRK, East Asian security, the United Nations and humanitarian assistance. She is regularly interviewed on Asia-Pacific security, North Korea and international affairs by the BBC, global media including CNN, Voice of America, and Radio Free Asia; Professor Smith has been interviewed on some of America's leading political talkshows including ABC 'Nightline' and by some of America's leading broadcasters including Mike Wallace for CBS ’60 Minutes’ and Fareed Zakaria for PBS 'Foreign Exchange'.

Selected publications

Selected articles in refereed journals
Race and Class in Revolutionary Nicaragua: Autonomy and the Atlantic Coast, IDS Bulletin, July 1988, pp. 66-72.

Revolutionary Diplomacy: Sandinista Style, in Race and Class, Vol. 33 No. 1, July 1991, pp. 57-70.

Winning the revolution and losing the elections: the FSLN and the 1990 Nicaraguan election, in Annales des pays d'amériqe latine et des caraibes nos. 11-12, published by Institut d'études politiques/CREALC, Aix-en Provence, 1993, pp. 353-363.

The Silence of the Academics: International theory, historical materialism and political values, in Review of International Studies, Vol. 22, April 1996, pp. 191-212.

Concepts in Conflict: Democracy and "Democratization", in Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, Latin America in the Nineties: Transcending Current Borders, Vol. 16, 1996, pp. 111-143.

European and United States Relations: the evolution of practice and theory in the post cold war context, in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. X No.2, Winter/Spring 1997, pp. 155-175.

Ibid., reprinted in European Studies Forum, No. 2 1998, published by Centre for European Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing.

'Opening up’ by default: North Korea, the Humanitarian community and the crisis, in Pacific Review, Vol. 12 No. 3, 1999, pp. 453-478.

Ibid., Reprinted in P.W. Preston (ed), Political Change in East Asia (two volumes), (Aldershot: Avebury, 2002) as part of series by John Clammer (ed), International Library of Social Change in East Asia

Bad, Mad, sad or Rational Actor: Why the ‘securitisation’ paradigm makes for poor policy analysis of North Korea, in International Affairs, Vol. 76 No. 1, January 2000, pp. 111-132.

La Corée du Nord vers l’économie de marché: faux et vrais dilemmas, in Critique Internationale, Paris, April 2002, pp. 6-14.

Overcoming Humanitarian Dilemmas in the DPRK, Special Report No. 90, (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace, July 2002), pp. 16

Asymmetric nuisance value: The border in China-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea relations, in Timothy Hildebrandt (ed), Uneasy Allies: Fifty Years of China-North Korea Relations (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Asia Program Special Report, September 2003), pp. 18-25

Crime and economic instability: the real security threat from North Korea and what to do about it, in International Relations of the Asia Pacific, Vol. 5 No. 2 2005, pp. 235-249.

How South Korean means support North Korean ends: Crossed purposes in Inter-Korean cooperation, International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Vol. 14 No. 2, 2005, pp. 21-51.

North East Asia’s regional Security Secrets: re-envisaging the Korean crisis, In Disarmament Forum, No. 2, (Geneva: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). 2005), pp. 45-54.

Ibid., translated into French as ‘Les secrets de la sécurité régionale en Asie du Nord-Est, in Forum du désamement No. 2, (Geneva: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). 2005), pp. 47-56

North Korean Shipping: A potential for WMD proliferation?, in Asia-Pacific Issues, East-West Center, Honolulu, No. 87, February 2009

North Korea: Market opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces, New Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 3, June 2009

Food, Fish and Weapons of Mass Destruction, North Korean Review, forthcoming 2011

Other articles
North Korean migrants pose long-term challenge for China, Jane’s Intelligence Review, June 2005, pp. 32-35

North East Asia’s regional security secrets: re-envisaging the Korea Crisis, Disarmament Forum, No. 2, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), 2005, pp. 45-54 Ibid., translated into French and entitled ‘Les secrets de la securité regionale en Asie du Nord-Est: repenser la crise coréenne’, in French translation of the journal, pp. 47-56

Consolidating EU foreign policy: the ‘civilising mission’ and the development of military security as a geo-issue area, October 2004

Intelligence Matters: Improving Intelligence on North Korea, Jane’s Intelligence Review, April 2004, pp. 48-51

Brownback’s Bill will not help North Koreans, Jane’s Intelligence Review, February 2004, pp. 42-45.

Overcoming Humanitarian Dilemmas in the DPRK, Special Report No. 90, (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace, July 2002), pp. 16

Living with Absences: A Foreigner’s sojourn in Pyongyang, in The Korea Society Quarterly, Winter 2001/2002, pp. 9-16.

Monographs

Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea, (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005)

European Union Foreign Policy: What it is and what it does, (London/Vancouver/Virginia: Pluto/University of British Columbia Press/Stylus, 2002), pp. 320

European Union Foreign Policy and Central America, (London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 1995), pp. 234

Nicaragua: Self-Determination and Survival, (London and Boulder: Pluto, 1993), pp. 322.

Edited books

Diasporas in Conflict (With Paul Stares), (Tokyo: United Nations University press, 2007)

Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer, (Tokyo: United Nations University press, 2007)

Humanitarian diplomacy (With Larry Minear), (Tokyo: United Nations University press, 2007)

Historical Materialism and Globalisation (With Mark Rupert), (London/New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 300

Democracy and International Relations: Critical theories/problematic practices, (London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s Press, April 2000), pp. 278

North Korea in the New World Order (With Chris Rhodes, Diana Pritchard, Kevin Magill), (London/New York: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1996), pp. 221

Edited collections

Democracy and Civil Society, Special Edition of Global Society Vol. 12 No. 2, May 1998, pp. 270

With Nina O’Shea, New Thinking in Politics and International Relations, (London: Kent papers in Politics and International Relations, 1996), pp. 108

With Nina O’Shea, Europe and North Africa: Cooperation or Conflict, (London: Kent papers in Politics and International Relations, 1995), pp. 130

Chapters in Books
Marxism and International Relations, in Margot Light and A.J.R Groom (eds), Contemporary International Relations: A Guide to Theory, (London: Pinter, 1994), pp. 142-155.

DPRK Foreign Policy in the 1990s: More Realist than Revolutionary?, in A. Williams and S. Chan (eds), Renegade States, (Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 96-116.

The Conservative Approach: Sandinista Nicaragua's Foreign Policy, in A. Williams and S. Chan (eds), Renegade States, (Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 138-169.

North Korean Foreign Policy in the 1990s: the Realist Approach, in Hazel Smith et al (eds), North Korea in the New World Order (London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 1996), pp. 93-113.

Actually existing foreign policy - or not? The European Union and Latin America, in John Peterson and Helene Sjursen (eds), A Common Foreign Policy for Europe, (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 152-168.

Ibid., reprinted in European Studies Forum, No. 2 1998, published by Centre for European Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing.

The European Union’s Foreign Policy towards Latin America, in A.J.R Groom and Andrew J. Williams (eds), The European Union and the Southern Hemisphere, (Grenoble/Canterbury: L’observatoire des relations internationales dans l’hémisphère sud (ORIHS)/University of Kent, 2000), pp. 25-49.

Why is there no international democratic theory?, in Hazel Smith (ed), Democracy and International Relations: Critical theories/problematic practices, (London: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 1-30.

The Politics of ‘regulated liberalism’ in Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds), Historical Materialism and Globalisation, (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 257-283.

The disintegration and reconstitution of the state in the DPRK in Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff and Ramesh Thakur (eds), Making States Work (Tokyo: United Nations Press, 2005), pp. 167-192

North Koreans in China: Defining the problems and offering some solutions in Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva (eds), Crossing National Borders: Human migration Issues in Northeast Asia (Tokyo: United Nations Press, 2005), pp. 165-190.

Humanitarian Diplomacy: Theory and practice, in Hazel Smith and Larry Minear (eds) Humanitarian Diplomacy, (Tokyo: United Nations press, April 2007), pp. 36-62

With Larry Minear, Introduction, in Hazel Smith and Larry Minear (eds) Humanitarian Diplomacy, (Tokyo: United Nations press, April 2007), pp. 1-4.

Diasporas in International Conflict: Peace-makers and peace-wreckers, in Hazel Smith and Paul Stares, Diasporas in Conflict (Tokyo/Washington DC: United Nations Press/ United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), pp. 3-16.

Nation-building as Peace-building in Korea, in Deok-Hong Yoon and Sang-Jin Han (eds), The 2005 Global Forum on Civilization and Peace (Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies, 2007), pp. 80-91.

Reconstituting Korean Security dilemmas, in Hazel Smith (ed) Reconstituting Korean Security, (Tokyo: United Nations press, 2007), pp. 1-20.

Food Security: the case for multisectoral and multilateral cooperation, in Hazel Smith (ed) Reconstituting Korean Security, (Tokyo: United Nations press, 2007), pp. 82-102.

Korean Security: a policy primer, in Hazel Smith (ed) Reconstituting Korean Security, (Tokyo: United Nations press, 2007), pp. 253-268.

Regional Dialogue and Institution-Building: The Necessary Foundation for Human Rights Reform in the DPRK in Kie-Duck Park and Sang-Jin Han, (eds) Human Rights in North Korea: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding (Sungnam: The Sejong Institute, 2007), pp. 307-335.

Markets and poverty: human security dilemmas in the Korean crisis, in a collection edited by Han. S. Park, University of Georgia, USA, submitted, forthcoming 2011, working title, North East Asian Security and the Korean Crisis, Cambria publishers, New York

Evidence to UK Foreign Affairs select Committee

Global Security: Japan and Korea - March 2008

Parliament Publications I

Parliament Publications II

East Asia - July 2006

Volume II

Volume I

Selected commissioned reports

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Context analysis DPRK (Bern: SDC, 2006)

CARITAS, Evaluation of CARITAS activity in DPRK 1995-2006, (Hong Kong: CARITAS, 2006)

UN WFP, Strategic Review: policies and programmes Nepal (Kathmandu: WFP Nepal, 2005)

CARITAS, Evaluation of CARITAS activity in DPRK 1995-2001, (Hong Kong: CARITAS, 2001), pp. 55.

UNICEF, Situation Analysis of Women and Children in the DPRK (Pyongyang: UNICEF, 1999), pp. 109

US government testimony

Minimum conditions for humanitarian action in the DPRK: a survey of humanitarian agency involvement and perspectives, (Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, 2001), pp. 34, Washington DC, written as evidence into the record for the House International Relations Committee hearing on humanitarian assistance to the DPRK, 2 May 2002, pp. 34