Juliet Kaarbo is Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She co-founded and works with the Scottish Council of Global Affairs.  Julie previously held posts at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Kansas and the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva) and was founding co-director of Edinburgh’s Centre for Security Research.  She was the 2018 Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis in the International Studies Association (ISA) and was elected as ISA Vice President (2022-23).   She was awarded a Visiting Scientist Fellowship at Bilkent University (Ankara) and a Ferdinand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (Florence) and secured a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for 2023-25. Professor Kaarbo has written about and provided expert parliamentary testimony on the international dimensions of Scottish independence, Brexit, and the role of the UK parliament in foreign and security policy and has consulted with numerous government officials and agencies. Julie served as Associate Editor of the journals Foreign Policy Analysis and British Journal of Politics and International Relations and co-edits Routledge’s book series on Role Theory and International Relations.   She has won three awards for her PhD supervision.

Juliet Kaarbo’s research focuses on leader personality, foreign policy decision making, group dynamics, parliaments and parties, and national roles and has appeared in numerous high-ranking journals such as International Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Political Psychology, European Political Science Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis.   Her books and co-edited volumes include Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making:  A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy Choices (University of Michigan Press 2012), Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations (Routledge 2016), The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives (2020), and The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis (2024).  She has been part of an international team creating a database on parties’ positions on military deployments and trade agreements (http://deploymentvotewatch.eu/). Julie is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust funded project:  Breaking Bad?  How Leader Personalities Change and the Consequences for Politics and Foreign Policies.  She is also working on projects comparing personality profiles of U.S. presidential candidates to elected presidents, examining the role of leader personality in international political economy, assessing Egyptian foreign policy from a role theory perspective, and a role theory take on transitional orders.