Karen E. Smith is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively about the European Union's foreign relations, including the role that human rights may play in those relations, and was the winner of the 2007 Anna Lindh Award for excellence in research on European foreign and security policy. Her most recent books include European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World (2nd edition, 2008) and The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms (with Katie Verlin Laatikainen, 2006).