Academics
Brian Hocking BA, MA, PhD
Visiting Professor Email B.L.Hocking@lboro.ac.uk |
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Biography
I have been Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University since 2005. Before that I was Professor of International Relations at Coventry University. I have taught and held visiting fellowships at universities in Australia, the USA and Europe. Since joining Loughborough, I have been responsible for establishing the Centre for the Study of International Governance of which he is Co-Director. Amongst my various external activities, I am associate editor of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy.
In terms of research interests, I am particularly concerned with the interaction between domestic and international forces in the conduct of foreign and foreign economic policy and the impact of globalisation on the nature and organisation of diplomacy. Current projects relate to innovation in diplomacy, including multistakeholder models, global governance and the interaction between business, NGOs and governmental agencies civil society in trade diplomacy.
The British Academy is currently funding a project on changing forms of diplomatic representation and the Government of Canada and the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom a project entitled Change and Innovation in Diplomacy: the Canadian and UK experiences. I have close working links with a number of institutions working in the field of foreign policy and diplomacy, including the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, the DiploFoundation in Geneva, the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University, Canberra and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada. I have organised and participated in a large number of international conferences over the last ten years.
Publications relating to work in the above areas include: Localizing Foreign Policy: Non-Central Governments and Multilayered Diplomacy, Macmillan, 1993; Beyond Foreign Economic Policy: the United States and the Single European Market, (with M H Smith), London, Cassell/Pinter, 1997; Foreign Ministries: Change and Adaptation, (contributor and editor), London, Macmillan, 1999; Trade Politics (editor, with S.M. McGuire), London, Routledge, 2004, and: Foreign Ministries in the European Union Integrating Diplomats (editor, with D. Spence), London, Palgrave, 2005.Detailed searchable list of publications.
Centre for the Study of International Governance
Recent publications:
My recent publications include:
Books
Foreign Ministries in the European Union: Integrating Diplomats?, (contributor and editor with D. Spence) London, Palgrave, 2002 (revised edition 2005).
Trade Politics (2nd ed.), (contributor and co-editor with S. McGuire) London, Routledge, 2004.
Book Chapters
`Doing the Business? The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations and the Global Compact’, in A. Cooper, J. English and R. Thakur (eds), Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy? Tokyo, United Nations Press, 2002, pp. 203-228, (with D. Kelly).
`Trade policy and diplomacy after Seattle’ in B. Hocking and S. McGuire (eds), Trade Politics (2nd ed.), London, Routledge, 2004.
`Lobbyists in countries outside the United States’, in C. S. Thomas (ed.), Research Guide to US and International Interest Groups, Westport, CT, Praeger, 2004; (with J. Warhurst and P. Pross.)
`Diplomacy’ in W. Carlsnaes and B. White (eds), Contemporary European Foreign Policy, Sage, 2004).
`Regionalismo: uma perspectiva das relações internacionais’, in M. Mariano, `A Dimensão Subnacional e as Relações Internacionais’ Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea, Brazil, 2004.
`Rethinking public diplomacy’ in J. Melissen (ed.), The New Public Diplomacy, Houndmills Palgrave Macmillan.
`Towards a European diplomatic system?’ in B. Hocking and D. Spence (eds) Foreign Ministries in the European Union (revised edn), Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
`Multistakeholder diplomacy: forms, functions and frustrations’, in J. Kurbalija and V. Katrandjiev (eds), Multistakeholder Diplomacy: challenges and opportunities, Geneva, DiploFoundation 2006.
`What is the foreign ministry?’ in K. Rana and J. Kurbalija (eds), Foreign Ministries: managing diplomatic networks and optimizing value, Geneva, DiploFoundation, 2007.
Journal articles
`Diplomacy: new agendas and changing strategies’, Virtual Diplomacy SeriesNo 14, United States Institute of Peace, August 2002; pp. 18-24.
`Government-business strategies in EU-US economic relations: the lessons of the Foreign Sales Corporations issue’, Journal of Common Market Studies, September 2002.
`Changing the terms of trade policy-making: from the `club’ to the `multistakeholder’ model’, World Trade Review, 3 (1), March 2004.
`Privatizing diplomacy?’ in ISP Policy Forum: the privatization of diplomacy and security policy, International Studies Perspectives, 5, 2004.
Hocking, B.L., ''A formulaceo da politica commercial em mudanca: do modelo de 2clube" ao de "multiplos grupos de interesse"'', Revista Brasileira de Comercio Exterior, 1983, 2005,
`The diplomacy of proximity and specialness: enhancing Canada’s representation in the United States’, Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 1 (1) 2006.