Stephen Hoadley BSc, MA, PhD California

Associate Professor of Political Studies

Stephen Hoadley is a foreign policy, defence and international relations specialist with a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He lectures, writes and does media commentary on New Zealand, Asia-Pacific, American, and European foreign affairs and co-ordinates the Master of Professional Studies degree in International Relations and Human Rights. He regularly lectures to New Zealand Defence Force officers and public groups, and is an Honorary Captain of the RNZN. He is Corresponding Editor of the New Zealand International Review and serves on the board of Fulbright New Zealand andNew Zealand committees of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Washington University at St Louis before joining The University of Auckland in 1972. He has supervised theseson New Zealand’s policies towards GATT, peacekeeping, arms control, frigate acquisition, the Antarctic, Thailand, Australia (CER), South Korea, Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Taiwan, and the Asia-Pacific, and alsostrategy, political economy, and international institutions and human rights, andthe politicsof the NZ Defence Force. Dr. Hoadley is Corresponding Editor of the New Zealand International Review and has associations with Freiburg University (Germany), Kobe Gakuin University (Japan), Deakin University and Australian Defence College (Australia) and University of California at Davis. He is involved in current research and teaching on United States-Europe and United States-Asia diplomacy, trade, and security issues, human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers and related policies and politics and the politics of trade agreements and trade disputes

Recent publications on the EU and European foreign affairs:

New Zealand and France: Politics, Diplomacy and Dispute Management, Wellington, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 197 pp., 2005.


'Counter-terrorism Policies of the European Union: The Politics of Intergovernmental Cooperation', in: James Veitch (ed.), International Terrorism: New Zealand Perspectives, Wellington, Victoria University Institute of Policy Studies, pp.155-168, 2005.


'Diplomacy, Politics and Nuclear Testing: New Zealand Confronts France 1995-96', In: Ralph Pettman(ed.), New Zealand in a Globalising World ., Wellington, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, pp.110-118, 2005.


'European Defence Policy: A Political Analysis', New Zealand International Review , 30 (6): 6-9, 2005
'European Foreign Policy: The Impact of Enlargement', New Zealand International Review 30 (5): 19-23, 2005

‘Europe’s America Problem’, New Zealand International Review, 27 (5): 14-18, 2002.

‘Europe’s Ready Reaction Force’, New Zealand International Review, 26 (4): 23-26, 2001.

Recent Supervision:

M.A. Theses:

Andreas Reitzig: New Zealand Nuclear Free Policy

James Keneally: United Nations reform

John Hodgeson: Ukraine Politics

PhD Theses:

Lorraine Dale: New Zealand Counter-terrorism

Peter Greener: New Zealand Defence Policy-Making

Zhivan Alach: New Concepts of Defence in New Zealand and Australia

Dennis Paglinawan: Immigration Policy in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada

Astrid Fritz: New Zealand Trade Agreements and Environmental Policies