Donna Lee was appointed Lecturer in International Organizations and IPE, University of Birmingham, UK, in July 2002, having previously taught at the University of Nottingham, Leicester University and Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr. Lee’s main research interests are in economic diplomacy, international trade relations, the GATT/WTO system, and trade policy. She is currently working on a project on export promotion strategies that involves the analysis of the history and development of public-private networks in economic diplomacy. The research aims to contribute to contemporary IPE debates about the change in public-private relationships in the global economy and the significance of linkages and interactions between business and government actors in international economic organizations. It also seeks to contribute to diplomatic studies by providing a broader conceptualization of diplomacy that integrates market and political relations.

Publications on the process of international economic negotiation:

Lee, Donna and Rorden Wilkinson. Forthcoming. The WTO After Hong Kong. Routledge.

Lee, Donna. 2006. South Africa in the WTO in The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy. Edited by Donna Lee, Ian Taylor and Paul Williams. Palgrave/Macmillan.

Lee, Donna with Michelle Pace and Nicki Smith . 2006. "Size? Power? Competence?: The WTO is what small states make of it". Paper presented at the ISA annual conference, San Diego.

Lee, Donna. November 2005. "The Cotton Club: The Africa Group in the Doha Development Round". Paper presented at the conference Endgame at the WTO: the Doha Development Agenda, held at the University of Birmingham, England.

Lee, Donna. 2004. Public Advocates for Private Interests? The Rise of Commercial Diplomacy. (editor) International Studies Perspectives 5, No. 1.

Lee, Donna. 2004. The Growing Influence of Business in UK Diplomacy. International Studies Perspectives 5, No. 1.

Lee, Donna. 2004. The Old and new Significance of Political Economy in Diplomacy with David Hudson. Review of International Studies 30, No.3.

Lee, Donna. 2001. Endgame at the Kennedy Trade Round: Political and Economic Risk in Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Diplomacy & Statecraft 12, no. 3.

Lee, Donna. 1999. Middle Powers in Commercial Diplomacy. Macmillan.

Lee, Donna. 1998. Middle Powers in the Global Economy: British influence during the opening phase of the Kennedy trade round negotiations, 1962-64. Review of International Studies 24, no. 4.

Lee, Donna. 1998. Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Final Phase of the Kennedy Trade Round, DSP Discussion Papers, No. 46. Leicester: Centre for the Study of Diplomacy.

Contact Information:
Lecturer in International Organisations and IPE
University of Birmingham
Department of Political Science & International Studies
European Research Institute
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Phone: 0121 414 2979
Fax:0121 414 3496
Email: d.lee.3@bham.ac.uk
Web: http://www.polsis.bham.ac.uk/about/Staff/Lee.shtml