POLIS Academic
Professor Christopher Hill, M.A. DPhil (Oxon)
Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations
Professor Christopher Hill, FBA, M.A. DPhil (Oxon) joined the Centre in October 2004 from the London School of
Economics, where he was the Montague Burton Professor of
International Relations from 1991 to 2004.
During his career he has held visiting positions at the
Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC,
the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire, the European University Institute, Florence, the
Università di Catania, the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, the University of California at San Diego and
the Università di Siena.
His research interests are Foreign Policy Analysis and the
International Politics of Europe, with special reference to
the foreign policies of Britain, France and Italy. He
teaches in these areas, as well as general courses on
International Relations, including Research Methods for
doctoral students. He has written many scholarly articles
and book chapters, as well as being author, joint author or
editor of ten books including 'Cabinet Decisions on Foreign
Policy’ and 'The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy' (also translated into Chinese and Farsi). His
most recent book is 'International Relations and the
European Union' (co-edited with Michael Smith, 2005).
A selected list of his main publications is given
below.
Professor Hill was successively Vice-Chair and then Chair
of the British International Studies Association between
1996- 2000. He has been an elected Council Member at the
Royal Institute of International Affairs, and is a member
of many editorial advisory boards including those of the
Journal of Common Market Studies, the British Journal of
Political Science and International Affairs. He was the
Coordinator of FORNET, a foreign policy research network
involving 25 European partners, under the auspices of the
European Commission's Framework Programme V, and is
currently Team Leader for the foreign policy section of
EU-CONSENT, a similar network funded by Framework Programme
VI. He leads the Cambridge team in MERCURY, a Framework Programme VII research network on multilateralism.
Christopher Hill is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,
where he is a Member of the Council. He also sits on the
Council of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
and on the University’s Research Policy Committee. He was a member of the RAE2008 national panel for
Politics and International Relations.
Selected list of publications
Books
- (Edited) National Foreign Policies and European Political Cooperation (London: Allen & Unwin for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1983).
- Cabinet Decisions on Foreign Policy: the British Experience October 1938 - June 1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, for the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1991). Reissued in paperback, 2002.
- (Edited, with Pamela Beshoff), Two Worlds of International Relations: Academics, Practitioners and the Trade in Ideas (London: Routledge, 1994.
- (Edited, with Stelios Stavridis), Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: West European Reactions to the Falklands Conflict (Oxford: Berg, 1996
- (Edited) The Actors in Europe’s Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 1996).
- (Translated and edited English version) Marching to Captivity: the War Diaries of a French Peasant 1939-1945 - Gustave Folcher (London: Brasseys, 1996). First published in French, edited by Rémy Cazals, Maspero: Paris, 1981.
- (Edited, with Karen Smith), European Foreign Policy: Key Documents (London: Routledge, 2000).
- The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy (London: Palgrave, 2003).
- (Edited, with Michael Smith), International Relations and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
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Main articles and chapters (last ten years only)
- 'Closing the Capability-Expectations Gap?' in John Peterson and Helene Sjursen (eds.), A Foreign Policy for Europe?, London, Routledge, 1998.
- ‘”Where are we going?” International Relations and the Voice from Below’, Review of International Studies, 25,1, January 1999.
- 'What is Left of the Domestic? A Reverse Angle View of Foreign Policy', in Michi Ebata and Beverly Neufeld (eds.), Confronting the Political in International Relations, London, Macmillan, 2000.
- (with Filippo Andreatta) 'Struggling to Change: the Italian State and the New Order', in Robin Niblett and William Wallace (eds.), Rethinking European Order: West European Responses 1989-1997, London, Palgrave, 2001.
- ‘Foreign Policy’, encyclopaedia entry in Joel Krieger (Ed.), Oxford Companion to Politics of the World , New York, Oxford University Press, second, revised edition, 2001.
- 'The EU’s Capacity for Conflict Prevention', European Foreign Affairs Review, 6,3, Autumn 2001.
- 'The Geopolitical Implications of Enlargement', in Jan Zielonka (ed.), Europe Unbound: Enlarging and Reshaping the Boundaries of the European Union, Routledge, 2002.
- ‘The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: Conventions, Constitutions and Consequentiality’, The International Spectator, XXXVII, No 4, Oct-December 2002 (also published in Il Mulino, LII, N. 405, 1/2003, as ‘Allargamento, processo constituente e ruolo internazionale dell’Europa’).
- ‘What is to be Done? Foreign Policy as a Site for Political Action’, International Affairs 79, 2, March 2003
- ‘Renationalising or Regrouping? EU Foreign Policy since 11 September 2001’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 42, 1, March 2004.
- Dilemmas of a Semi-Insider: Blairite Britain and the United States’, in Christina V. Balis and Simon Serfaty (Eds.), Post 9.11. Visions of America and Europe: September 11, Iraq, and Transatlantic Relations (Washington DC: the CSIS Press, 2004).
- ‘Putting the World to Rights: the Foreign Policy Mission of Tony Blair’, in Anthony Seldon (ed.), The Blair Effect, 2001-5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
- ‘The European Powers in the Security Council: Differing Interests, Differing Arenas’, in Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith (eds.), Intersecting Multilateralisms: the European Union at the United Nations (Houndsmills: Palgrave, 2006).
- ‘The Directoire and the Problem of a Coherent EU Foreign Policy’, CFSP Forum, Vol.4, 6, November 2006, http://www.eu-consent.net
- ‘The Future of the European Union as a Global Actor’, in Paolo Foradori, Paolo Rosa, and Riccardo Scartezzini (eds.), Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy: The EU in International Affairs (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007).
- ‘Bringing War Home: Making Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies’, International Relations, 21,3, September 2007.
- (with Elisabetta Brighi), ‘Implementation and behaviour’, in Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne (eds.), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
- (with Lisbeth Aggestam), ‘The Challenge of Multiculturalism in European Foreign Policy’, International Affairs, 84,1, January 2008, pp97-114.
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- E-mail: cjh68@cam.ac.uk
- Tel: 01223 767230
- Address: POLIS
Research Interests:
Foreign Policy Analysis and the International Politics of Western Europe, as well as general International Relations.