Guide to Specialists

Hazel Smith
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
In Residence: December 2001--September 2002

ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Project Focus
"Assessing International Assistance and Peaceful Social and Economic Transformation in the DPRK"

Background
Hazel Smith is a reader in international relations at the University of Warwick. She recently served as program adviser for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Pyongyang, North Korea (2000-01). She has also served as consultant on North Korean issues to the WFP and UNICEF, and has advised the British government. Her career as an academic started at the University of Kent, where she was a lecturer and senior lecturer in international relations (1991-98). She was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Latin American Studies in 1994-95 and received grants from the European Union and British Council to pursue collaborative research with Renmin University, Beijing. She has been a member of the Royal Society of Arts since 1996.

Smith frequently speaks on international politics for news media and has written numerous reports on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the WFP and UNICEF. She also has written and edited a number of books including Democracy and International Relations (2000), European Union Foreign Policy and Central America (1998), and North Korea in the New World Order (1996). She holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Available on usip.org

• Questions Linger over North Korea: Book launch author Hazel Smith proposes a less confrontational approach
  Peace Watch, April/May 2006
• Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea
  Book Launch, February 2006 (Audio)
• Cross-Border Human Flows in Northeast Asia
  Current Issues Briefing, June 24, 2004 (Audio)
• Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea
  USIP Press Books, November 2005
• Overcoming Humanitarian Dilemmas in the DPRK (North Korea)
  Special Report, July 2002
• "Hunger for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in the DPRK"
  Fellow Report, February 2002 (Audio)
• Desperate Times in North Korea
  Peace Watch, February 2002