John M. Hobson

John Montagu Hobson is a professor and author. Hobson is a fellow of the British Academy and won the British Academy award for his books in 2015.

Aacdemic career

Hobson studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Having gained his PhD in Historical Sociology in 1991 he then relocated to Australia. He taught international relations at La Trobe University in Melbourne between 1992 and 1997. Between 1997 and 2004 he taught international relations and international political economy as a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He then returned to the UK in 2004 and since 2005 he has been Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.^[1]

Bibliography

Books

• Weiss, Linda; Hobson, John M. (1995). States and economic development : a comparative historical analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• The Wealth of States: a comparative sociology of international economic and political change 1997
• The State and International Relation 2000
• Historical Sociology of International Relations 2002
• The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760–2010 - 2012^[2]
• The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation 2004^[3]

Articles

• Hobson, John M. (Dec 1995). "The myth of the nightwatchman state". Quadrant. 39 (12): 65–71.

See also

• Andre Gunder Frank
• Samir Amin
• Angus Maddison
• James Morris Blaut

References

1. "ICD - Academy for cultural diplomacy - Advisory Board Members". culturaldiplomacy.org. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
2. John M. Hobson (7 May 2012). "The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
3. Yerxa, D.A. (2009). Recent Themes in World History and the History of the West: Historians in Conversation. Historians in Conversation: Recent Themes in Understanding the Past. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-831-0. Retrieved 2015-10-29.