Juliet Kaarbois Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, since September 2024. 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 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’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).