Author profile: Karen Smith

Karen Smith has been teaching IR at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands since 2017. Before that, she was based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, to which she is still affiliated as an honorary research associate. Her research interests include non-Western approaches to IR (theory), the impact of the emerging powers on global governance, and South Africa’s foreign policy.

The Dangers of Parochialism in International Relations

Karen Smith • Aug 30 2018 • Articles

If our aim is to build a more inclusive discipline, we should be cautious of outrightly rejecting existing knowledge without critically engaging with it.

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