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Lilit Anna Klein

PhD (2023) | Job Market Candidate
email lilit.klein@alumni.ubc.ca
Research Area
Conflict, security, and peacekeeping | Foreign policy
Entrance Cohort
2017
Education

BA International Relations, University of Durham 2015
MSc International Relations Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016

About

Lilit completed her Ph.D. entitled Moral Intuition and International Order: On Change, Progress, and Threat” in August 2023. She studied the impact of moral intuition on conceptualizations of international order via fifty-two expert interviews, establishing that moral foundations influence international relations scholars’ and practitioners’ notions of change, progress, and threat. This laid the groundwork for arguing that moral intuition shapes both scholars’ theoretical leanings and practitioners’ foreign policy stances.

Research

Great power competition, international order, fear and threat in the international realm, gray zone strategies, transatlantic cooperation, and psychological approaches to international relations

Publications

Klein, Lilit. 2026. “Canada, the EU, and the Future of the ITAR Exemption”, Triple Helix: Policy Perspectives, Canadian Global Affairs Institute: https://www.cgai.ca/th_pp_canada_the_eu_and_the_future_of_the_itar_exemption

Klein, Lilit. 2025. “Securing Supply Through Shared Values: The Canada-Germany Critical Minerals Partnership”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ottawa: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/country-reports/detail/-/content/announcement-launching-atlantic-spotlight

Klein, Lilit. 2025. “Enduring Partnership, Ambitious Agenda: Insights into International Order from Canada and the EU’s Security and Defence Partnership”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ottawa: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/country-reports/detail/-/content/enduring-partnership-or-ambitious-agenda

Conference Activity

ISA 2023 “Teetering on the Edge: Why Experts disagree on the Gray Zone“
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Lilit Anna Klein

PhD (2023) | Job Market Candidate
email lilit.klein@alumni.ubc.ca
Research Area
Conflict, security, and peacekeeping | Foreign policy
Entrance Cohort
2017
Education

BA International Relations, University of Durham 2015
MSc International Relations Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016

About

Lilit completed her Ph.D. entitled Moral Intuition and International Order: On Change, Progress, and Threat” in August 2023. She studied the impact of moral intuition on conceptualizations of international order via fifty-two expert interviews, establishing that moral foundations influence international relations scholars’ and practitioners’ notions of change, progress, and threat. This laid the groundwork for arguing that moral intuition shapes both scholars’ theoretical leanings and practitioners’ foreign policy stances.

Research

Great power competition, international order, fear and threat in the international realm, gray zone strategies, transatlantic cooperation, and psychological approaches to international relations

Publications

Klein, Lilit. 2026. “Canada, the EU, and the Future of the ITAR Exemption”, Triple Helix: Policy Perspectives, Canadian Global Affairs Institute: https://www.cgai.ca/th_pp_canada_the_eu_and_the_future_of_the_itar_exemption

Klein, Lilit. 2025. “Securing Supply Through Shared Values: The Canada-Germany Critical Minerals Partnership”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ottawa: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/country-reports/detail/-/content/announcement-launching-atlantic-spotlight

Klein, Lilit. 2025. “Enduring Partnership, Ambitious Agenda: Insights into International Order from Canada and the EU’s Security and Defence Partnership”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ottawa: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/country-reports/detail/-/content/enduring-partnership-or-ambitious-agenda

Conference Activity

ISA 2023 “Teetering on the Edge: Why Experts disagree on the Gray Zone“

Lilit Anna Klein

PhD (2023) | Job Market Candidate
email lilit.klein@alumni.ubc.ca
Research Area
Conflict, security, and peacekeeping | Foreign policy
Entrance Cohort
2017
Education

BA International Relations, University of Durham 2015
MSc International Relations Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016
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Lilit completed her Ph.D. entitled Moral Intuition and International Order: On Change, Progress, and Threat” in August 2023. She studied the impact of moral intuition on conceptualizations of international order via fifty-two expert interviews, establishing that moral foundations influence international relations scholars’ and practitioners’ notions of change, progress, and threat. This laid the groundwork for arguing that moral intuition shapes both scholars’ theoretical leanings and practitioners’ foreign policy stances.
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Great power competition, international order, fear and threat in the international realm, gray zone strategies, transatlantic cooperation, and psychological approaches to international relations
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Klein, Lilit. 2026. “Canada, the EU, and the Future of the ITAR Exemption”, Triple Helix: Policy Perspectives, Canadian Global Affairs Institute: https://www.cgai.ca/th_pp_canada_the_eu_and_the_future_of_the_itar_exemption

Klein, Lilit. 2025. “Securing Supply Through Shared Values: The Canada-Germany Critical Minerals Partnership”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ottawa: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/country-reports/detail/-/content/announcement-launching-atlantic-spotlight

Klein, Lilit. 2025. “Enduring Partnership, Ambitious Agenda: Insights into International Order from Canada and the EU’s Security and Defence Partnership”, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ottawa: https://www.kas.de/en/web/canada/country-reports/detail/-/content/enduring-partnership-or-ambitious-agenda

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ISA 2023 “Teetering on the Edge: Why Experts disagree on the Gray Zone“