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Professor Richard Langhorne
Job title:
Professor of Global Politics, Director of the Centre for Global Studies
Department: International Studies
Areas of expertise:
- Diplomacy
- Consequences of globalisation
- Global institutions and politics
Further details:
Richard Langhorne is Professor of Global Politics. He taught at the University of Kent, 1965-1975; was a Fellow of St John's College Cambridge, 1975-1993; Director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, 1987-1993; Director of Wilton Park, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1993-1996; and has been a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, USA, since 1996. He was Director of the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, 1996-2008.
He has published articles and reviews in many journals on diplomatic history, the organisation of diplomacy and global politics generally. He is the author of:
- The Collapse of the Concert of Europe, International Politics 1890-1914
- The Coming of Globalization, its Evolution and Contemporary Consequences
- The Practice of Diplomacy (with Keith Hamilton)
- Diplomacy (3 vols, with Christer Joensson)
- Diplomacy and Governance
- The Essentials of Global Politics
He has taken part in radio programmes for the BBC in England and radio stations in the New York / New Jersey area, and contributed to many TV programmes, particularly CNN, in the North East of the USA following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 and the wars that have followed.
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More information about Professor Langhorne can be found on the Economics and International Studies staff page. See also Professor Langhorne's publications list.
The full text of Professor Langhorne's inaugural lecture at Buckingham, Globalisation and Democracy (11 May 2010), is available in PDF format: inaugural-lecture.pdf (49 KB).