board. In 2012, Sir Steve Smith, together with the vice-chancellor of Plymouth University announced the demerger of Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, and the establishment of the University of Exeter Medical School and the Plymouth University "Peninsula" Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Publications During his academic career, Smith has written or edited thirteen books and almost 100 academic papers. He has given over 150 academic presentations in 22 different countries. Within international relations theory, he often writes in a post-positivist vein, and has contributed articles to edited volumes on both post-modernism in international relations and Critical Security Studies. He co-authored Explaining and Understanding International Relations with the late Professor Martin Hollis. He was the editor of the joint Cambridge University Press and British International Studies Association, Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Honours and awards Smith was the recipient of 1999 Susan Strange Award, awarded by the International Studies Association. In 2000, he was elected as an Academician of the Social Sciences (AcSS). In April 2007, he was awarded an honorary professorship by Jilin University in China. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was knighted in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to local and national Higher Education". He was recognized by University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft with the President's Global Leadership Award during spring commencement exercises 4–5 May 2012 on the Tampa campus. He was awarded a D.Litt by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2020. In October 2022 the University of Exeter named its Living Systems Institute in honour of its former Vice-Chancellor. His portrait (by Alastair Adams, 2022) hangs in Sir Steve Smith building. Bibliography Foreign Policy Adaptation, (Gower, 1981). Politics and Human Nature, co-edited with Ian Forbes, (Pinter, 1983). International Relations: British and American Approaches, (Blackwell, 1985). The Cold War Past and Present, co-edited with Richard Crockatt, (Allen and Unwin, 1987). Belief Systems and International Relations, co-edited with Richard Little, (Blackwell, 1988). British Foreign Policy: Tradition, Change, and Transformation, co-edited with Michael Smith and Brian White, (Unwin Hyman, 1988). Explaining and Understanding International Relations, with Martin Hollis, (Clarendon Press, 1990). Deciding Factors in British Politics, co-edited with John Greenaway and John Street, (Routledge, 1991). European Foreign Policy: The European Community and Changing Perspectives in