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.

Contact: B.Lee14 [at] lse [dot] ac [dot] uk
Address: Houghton Street, Centre Building 8.09, London WC2A 2AE