John Montagu Hobson,
FBA (born 27 December 1962) 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
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in historical
sociology in 1991, with his thesis title
The tax-seeking state: Protectionism, taxation and state structures in Germany, Russia, Britain and America, 1870-1914 he then relocated to
Australia
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. 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
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, the United Kingdom's
national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Selected bibliography
Books
*(Co-authored with Linda Weiss) ''States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis'' (Polity Press, 1995).
*''The Wealth of States: A Comparative Sociology of International Economic and Political Change'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
*''The State and International Relations'' (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
*''Historical Sociology of International Relations'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
*''
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
*''Everyday Politics of the World Economy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
*(Editor) ''Selected Writings of John A. Hobson, 1932–1938: The Struggle for the International Mind'' (Routledge, 2011).
*''The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760–2010'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Articles
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See also
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Andre Gunder Frank
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Samir Amin
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Angus Maddison
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James Morris Blaut
References
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British political scientists
Living people
Academics of the University of Sheffield
Fellows of the British Academy
Quadrant (magazine) people
1962 births