John M. Hobson
John Montagu Hobson, FBA is a political scientist, international relations scholar and academic. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.
Academic career
Born in Montreal, Canada, on 27 December 1962, John Montagu Hobson studied political science at the London School of Economics. Having gained his PhD in historical sociology in 1991, with his thesis titled, 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.Honours and awards
In 2015, Hobson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.Selected bibliography
Books
States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis.- '.
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- Historical Sociology of International Relations.
- The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation.
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- Selected Writings of John A. Hobson, 1932–1938: The Struggle for the International Mind .
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- Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy: Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier.
- ''Globalizing International Theory: The Problem with Western IR Theory and How to Overcome It''