Professor Hazel Smith
Professor of Resilience and Security
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: h.smith@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)01793 785471
Dept of Applied Science, Security and Resilience
Current activities
Hazel Smith (married name Hazel Petkovski) is Professor of Resilience and Security and Director of the Resilience Centre.
Professor Smith's most recent monograph is Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2005).
Professor Smith recently directed three research projects that have each resulted in edited publications (2007). These are Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners and their Craft edited with Larry Minear of Tufts University; Diasporas in Conflict : Peace-Makers or Peace-Wreckers? edited with Paul Stares of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; and Reconstituting Korean Security: A Policy Primer. Professor Smith has undertaken extensive field work in the DPRK, Nepal, China and Nicaragua – carrying out scholarly research and working for various intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.
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; and was recently a panelist for Forum at PressTV, hosted by Andrew Gilligan. 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'.
Professor Smith's main areas of research include:
- DPR Korea (North Korea)
- East Asian security
- International Humanitarianism
- Food aid
- Social Change in North Korea 1990-1997 (monograph for Cambridge University Press)
- Resolving Humanitarian Contradictions: Assistance and protection - co-directed with Erika Joergensen, Deputy Regional manager (Asia), UN World Food Programme, and co-funded by UN University and WFP.
Background
Professor Smith received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1992 and was a Fulbright scholar and visiting fellow at Stanford University in 1994/95.
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.
Between 2000 and 2001 Professor Smith was on research leave in the DPR Korea (North Korea) working for the United Nations World Food Programme. During this period she led 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, still 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; and was recently a panelist for Forum at PressTV, hosted by Andrew Gilligan. 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
La Corée du Nord vers l’économie de marché: faux et vrais dilemmas, in Critique Internationale, Paris, April 2002, pp. 6-14.
Bad, Mad, sad or Rational Actor: Why the ‘securitisation’ paradigm makes for poor policy analysis of north Korea, in International Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 593-617, July 2000
’Opening up’ by default: North Korea, the Humanitarian community and the crisis, in Pacific Review, Vol. 12 No. 3, 1999, pp. 453-478.
The Silence of the Academics: International theory, historical materialism and political values, in Review of International Studies, Vol. 22, April 1996, pp. 191-212.
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.
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
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
North Koreans in China: Defining the problems and offering some solutions, in Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva (eds), Crossing National Borders: International migration Issues in Northeast Asia (Tokyo: United Nations Press, 2005)
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
The Politics of ‘regulated liberalism', in Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds), Historical Materialism and Globalisation, (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 257-283.
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.
Evidence to UK Foreign Affairs select Committee
Global Security: Japan and Korea - March 2008
East Asia - July 2006
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
