top of page

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in LSE's International Relations Department. I​ am broadly interested in how rules and norms travel cross-nationally. My research examines the role of trade in promoting norm diffusion.

​

Working papers

Mobilizing for Issue Linkage: How External Ties Shape Domestic Support for Trade (under review)

Geopolitical Overtake: The Political Psychology of LGBT+ Diplomacy (with Jongwoo Jeong)
​

​​

Peer-reviewed articles

Conditional Effects of the Spotlight: Electoral Institutions and the Enforcement of Global Corporate Norms (2024), International Studies Quarterly.

​

Does the US Congress Respond to Public Opinion in Trade? (2023) with Michael Pomirchy and Bryan Schonfeld, American Politics Research.

 

Experience, Communication, and Collective Action: Financial Autonomy and Capital Market Development in East Asia (2022) with Yong Wook Lee, New Political Economy.

​

Environmental Issue Linkage as an Electoral Advantage: the Case of NAFTA (2021), Review of International Political Economy.

​

Work in progress

Trading on Values: Issue Linkage, Coalitions, and the Moral Politics of Trade

​​

Breaking Up with Friends: Alliance Erosion and the Politics of Trade Cooperation (with Jongwoo Jeong)

Beyond Domestic Bargains: How International Targeting Shapes the Politics of Industrial Policy (with Doeun Kim and Sung In Kim)

AI and the Labor Movement: Competing Discourses (with Casey Kearney)

​​

​

My CV is available here.

headshot_edited.png

Contact: B.Lee14 [at] lse [dot] ac [dot] uk

Address: Houghton Street, Centre Building 8.09, London WC2A 2AE 

bottom of page