Professor John Hobson - Publications

Books

• The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760–2010 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
• John A. Hobson, Selected Writings of John A. Hobson 1932-1938: The Struggle for the International Mind (London: Routledge, 2010), co-edited with Colin Tyler.
• Everyday Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), co-edited with Len Seabrooke.
• The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004); 392pp. 8th reprint in English (2009). Out in Arabic, Greek, Korean, Turkish, Chinese, Croatian, Spanish and Swedish.
• Historical Sociology of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); 315pp. Co-edited with Stephen Hobden
• The State and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): 258pp. (Taiwanese edition, 2003)
• The Wealth of States: a comparative sociology of international economic and political change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 [Cambridge Studies in International Relations, No. 52]): 338pp
• States and Economic Development: a comparative historical analysis (Cambridge: Polity, 1995); 295pp. Co-authored with Linda Weiss. Turkish edition 1999, Korean edition 2001, Chinese edition 2009.

Journal Articles

• ‘What’s at stake in the neo-Trotskyist debate? Towards a non-Eurocentric historical sociology of uneven and combined development’, Millennium 40(1) (2011) (40th anniversary symposium issue), 147–66.
• ‘The Big Bangs of IR: The myths that your teachers still tell you about 1648 and 1919’, Millennium 39(3) (2011): 735–58 (special issue on ‘IR in Dialogue’; co-authored with Ben de Carvalho and Halvard Leira).
• ‘Liberal International Theory: Eurocentric but not always Imperialist?’, International Theory 2(2) (2010): 210–45 (co-authored with Martin Hall).
• ‘Provincializing Westphalia: Eastern origins of sovereignty in the Oriental global age’, International Politics 46(6) (2009): 671–90.
• 'What is History in International Relations?’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37(2) (2008): 415–35 (co-authored with George Lawson).
• ‘Rediscovering Indian Civilization: Indian Origins of Modernity and the Rise of the West’, ICFAI Journal of History and Culture 2(2) (2008): 1–23 (co-authored with Rajiv Malhotra).
• ‘Decolonizing “Western Exceptionalism and Universality” One More Time’, Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society 9(2) (2007): 16–18 (2,800 words). This was reproduced in Donald A. Yerxa (ed.), World History and the History of the West (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press), 104–9.
• ‘Back to the Future of ‘One Logic Or Two?’: Forward to the Past of ‘Anarchy versus Racist Hierarchy?’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20(4)(2007): 579–95.
• ‘Reconstructing International Relations through World History: Oriental Globalisation and the Global Dialogic Conception of Inter-Civilisational Relations’, International Politics 44(4)(2007): 414–30
• ‘Is Critical Theory Always For the White West and For Western Imperialism? Beyond Westphilian, Towards a Post-Racist, International Relations’, Review of International Studies 33(SI) (2007): 91–116 (special issue on Critical IR theory). (Reproduced in Nicholas Rengger and Ben Thirkell-White (eds.), Critical International Relations Theory after 25 Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 91–116.
• ‘Explaining the Rise of the West: A Reply to Duchesne’, The Journal of the Historical Society, 6(4) (2006): 579–99.
• ‘East and West in Global History’, Theory, Culture and Society 23(2-3) (2006): 408–10 (special issue on ‘Problematizing Global Knowledge’).
• ‘Eurocentrism and Neorealism in the “Fall of Mann”: Will the Real Mann Please Stand Up?’, Millennium 34(2) (2006): 517–27.
• ‘Deconstructing Rosenberg’s “Contribution to the Critique of Global Political Economy”: A (re)view from a non-Eurocentric bridge of the world’, International Politics 42 (2005): 372–80.
• ‘The Enduring Place of Hierarchy in World Politics: Tracing the Social Logics of Hierarchy and Political Change’, European Journal of International Relations 11 (1) (2005); 63–98 (Co-authored with Jason Sharman)
• ‘Bringing the State back in, Kicking the State back out: Reconstructing the Identity of the Discipline of International Relations?’ Cooperation and Conflict 37 (4) (2002): 466–74
• ‘Globalisation Makes of States what States Make of It: Between Agency and Structure in the State/Globalisation Debate’, New Political Economy 7 (1) (2002): 5–22 (co-authored with M. Ramesh)
• ‘State Theory, Historical Sociology and the Challenge of the International’, The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces 20 (2002): 347–59
• ‘The “Second State Debate” in International Relations: theory turned upside-down’, Review of International Studies 27 (2001): 395–414
• ‘Reimagining Weber: Constructing International Society and the Social Balance of Power’, European Journal of International Relations 7(2) (2001): 239–74 (co-authored with Leonard Seabrooke)
• ‘The Historical Sociology of the State and the State of Historical Sociology in International Relations’, Review of International Political Economy 5(2) (1998): 284–320. (This was a lead article in a debate section. It was followed by critiques made by Martin Shaw, Hendrik Spruyt and Sandra Halperin. This was followed by my reply (see below).
• ‘For a “second-wave” Weberian historical sociology in international relations’, Review of International Political Economy 5(2) (1998): 355–65
• ‘The Military-Extraction Gap and the Wary Titan: The Fiscal-Sociology of British Defence Policy, 1870-1913’, Journal of European Economic History 22(3) (1993): 466–507.

Book Chapters

• ‘Orientalism and The Poverty of Theory three decades on: Bringing Eastern and subaltern agency back into Critical IR theory’, in Shannon Brincat, Laura Lima and João Nunes (eds.), Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies (London: Routledge, 2012), 129–39.
• ‘Decolonizing Sovereignty: Globalization and the Construction of Hyper-Sovereignty’, in Robert Schuett and Peter Stirk (eds.), The Concept of the State in International Relations (2012).
• ‘Imperialism and anti-imperialism in Eurocentric liberal international theory’, in Tim Dunne and Marjo Koivisto (eds.), Liberalism and World Order: Internationalism, Imperialism and Integration (2012), (co-authored with Martin Hall).
• ‘Orientalization in Globalization? Mapping the Promiscuous Architecture of Globalization, c.500–2010’, in J.N. Pieterse and J. Kim (eds.), Global Rebalancing: East Asia and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2012).
• ‘Finance and Commerce’, in Nayef Al-Rodhan (ed.), The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West (2012).
• ‘Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism’, in Arun Bala (ed.), Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2012)
• ‘The Other Side of the Westphalian Frontier’, in Sanjay Seth (ed.), Postcolonial Theory and International Relations (London: Routledge, 2012).
• ‘Introduction. John A. Hobson, the International Man: A Report from Earth’, in J.M. Hobson and C. Tyler (eds.), Selected Writings of John A. Hobson, 1932–1938: The Struggle for the International Mind (London: Routledge, 2011), 1–78 (5 chapters).
• ‘Non-Eurocentric Global History of Asia’, in Mark Beeson and Richard Stubbs (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism (London: Routledge, 2011), 46–57.
• ‘The Myth of the ‘Clash of Civilizations in Dialogical-Historical Context’, in UNESCO, The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2010, on-line publication), 15,000 words.
• ‘Historical Sociology’, in Robert A. Denemark (ed.) The International Studies Encyclopedia, Vol. 6 (co-authored with George Lawson and Justin Rosenberg) (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 3357–75.
• ‘Back to the future of nineteenth-century international thought?’, in George Lawson, Chris Armbruster, and Michael Cox (eds.) The Global 1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 23–50.
• ‘The paradox of cosmopolitan-Eurocentrism in the rise of the West’, in Jyrki Kakönen and Sanjay Chaturvedi (eds.) Euro-Asia at the Crossroads: Geopolitics, Identities and Dialogues (London: Anthem, 2010).
• ‘To be or not to be a non-reductionist Marxist – is that the question?’, in Alex Anievas (ed.) Marxism and World Politics (Oxford: Routledge, 2010): 116–30.
• ‘Comparative Politics and International Relations’, in Todd Landman and Neil Robinson (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (London: Sage, 2009): 175–89.
• ‘Everyday International Political Economy’, in Mark Blyth (ed.) Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (New York: Routledge, 2009): 284–300.
• ‘What have the Muslims ever done for us?’, in Rajani K. Kanth (ed.) The Challenge of Eurocentrism (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 217–35.
• ‘Introduction: Revealing Everyday Forms of Change in the World Economy’, in J.M. Hobson and L. Seabrooke (eds.), Everyday Politics of the World Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 1–23.
• ‘Eastern Agents of Globalisation: Oriental Globalisation in the Rise of Western Capitalism’, in Hobson and Seabrooke (eds.), Everyday Politics of the World Economy, 141–59
• ‘Conclusion: Everyday IPE Puzzle Sets, Teaching and Policy Agendas’, (co-authored with Len Seabrooke), in Hobson and Seabrooke (eds.), Everyday Politics of the World Economy, 196–213.
• ‘Deconstructing the Eurocentric Clash of Civilizations: De-Westernizing the West by Acknowledging the Dialogue of Civilizations’, in Martin Hall and P.T. Jackson (eds.), Civilizational Identity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 149–65.
• ‘Revealing the Cosmopolitan Side of Oriental Europe: The Eastern Origins of European Civilisation’, in Gerard Delanty (ed.), Europe and Asia Beyond East and West (London: Routledge, 2006), 107–19.
• ‘Historical Sociology’, in M. Griffiths (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of IR and Global Politics (London: Routledge, 2006).
• ‘Mann, the State and War’, in J.A. Hall and R. Schroeder (eds.), The Anatomy of Power: Essays on the Work of Michael Mann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 150–66.
• ‘Civilizing the Global Economy: Racism and the continuity of Anglo-Saxon Imperialism’, in B. Bowden and L. Seabrooke (eds.), Global Standards of Market Civilization (New York: Palgrave, 2006), 60–76.
• ‘Disappearing Taxes or the "Race to the Middle"? Fiscal Policy in the OECD’, in Linda Weiss (ed.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations No. 86): 37–57
• ‘Two Hegemonies or One? A Historical Sociological Critique of Hegemonic Stability Theory’, in Patrick K. O’Brien and Armand Clesse (eds.), Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846–1914 and the United States 1946–2001 (London: Ashgate, 2002): 305–25
• ‘State Power and Economic Strength Revisited: what’s so special about the Asian Crisis?’, in R. Robison, M. Beeson, K. Jayasuriya and H. Kim (eds.), Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis (London: Routledge, 1999), 53–74 (co-authored with Linda Weiss)
• ‘What’s at stake in “Bringing Historical Sociology Back” into International Relations? Transcending “Chronofetishism” and “Tempocentrism” in international relations', in Hobden and Hobson (eds.), Historical Sociology of International Relations, 3–41
• ‘The Two Waves of Weberian Historical Sociology in International Relations’, in Hobden and Hobson (eds.), 63–81
• ‘Conclusion: On the Road towards an Historicised World Sociology’, in Hobden and Hobson (eds.), 265–85

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