Stephen Hobden
- Affiliation: University of East London
Stephen Hobden is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of East London. He is the author of International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries (1998), and edited, together with John Hobson, Historical Sociology of International Relations (2002).
Books by Stephen Hobden
Posthuman International Relations
Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics
Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden
In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the ‘hazards’ of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered ‘human-centred’ approach. Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the… (more information)