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

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Academic career

Born in

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, on 27 December 1962, John Montagu Hobson studied political science at the

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. Having gained his PhD in historical

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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. He taught international relations at

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in Melbourne between 1992 and 1997. Between 1997 and 2004 he taught international relations and international political economy as a senior lecturer at the

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. He then returned to the UK in 2004 and since 2005 he has been Professor of Politics and International Relations at the

Honours and awards

In 2015, Hobson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's

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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 ''The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation'', written by the political scientist John M. Hobson in 2004, is a book that argues against the historical theory of the Great Divergence, rise of the West Voyages of Christopher Columbus, after 1492 as ...

'' (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).

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