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 coordinates 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 and New 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 theses on 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 also strategy,
political economy, and international institutions and human rights, and the politics of 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