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Brian Hocking

Visiting professor, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department

Brian Hocking (UK) has been Professor of International Relations at Loughborough University since 2005 and before that he was Professor of International Relations at Coventry University, United Kingdom. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Diplomatic Studies Programme at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, Netherlands. He has taught and held visiting fellowships at universities in Australia, the United States and Europe – most recently (2007 and 2011) as Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University where he is also a member of its international advisory board. Professor Hocking has served as an advisor to several foreign ministries and other government agencies on the impact of change on diplomacy. He is a graduate of Bristol, Leicester and London Universities, receiving his PhD from the University of London in 1980.

Professor Hocking’s research interests focus on the evolution and changing nature of foreign policy and diplomacy. Current projects relate to innovation in structures and processes of diplomacy and the interaction between business, NGOs and governmental agencies in trade diplomacy. He is also involved in a Jean Monnet Network research project – The Diplomatic System of the European Union – linking Loughborough, Maastricht and Leuven Universities, and he is an associate editor of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.

Brian Hocking’s publications include: Localizing Foreign Policy: Non-Central Governments and Multilayered Diplomacy (Macmillan, 1993); World Politics: an Introduction to International Relations (with M.H. Smith, Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995); Beyond Foreign Economic Policy: the United States and the Single European Market (with M.H. Smith, Pinter, 1997); Foreign Ministries: Change and Adaptation (Macmillan, 1999); Trade Politics (contributor and editor, with S. McGuire, Routledge, 2004); Foreign Ministries in the European Union: Integrating Diplomats (editor, with D. Spence, Palgrave, 2005); and Global Governance and Diplomacy: Worlds Apart? (editor with A.F. Cooper and W. Maley, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).