Welcome! I am 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 and security in promoting norm diffusion.
Working papers
A Relational Approach to Issue Linkage: Evidence from Environmental Linkages in American Trade Agreements
The Political Psychology of LGBT+ Norm 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
Book Manuscript: Issue Linkage and Coalition Politics
Trading Up or Crowding Out? The Impact of External Diffusion Pressure on Progressive Politics with Casey Kearney
Designing Global Rules: Evidence from the OECD Guidelines on Trade and the Environment
My CV (last updated in January 2024) is available here.

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