Professor Richard Langhorne

Phone: 973-353-5585
Email: langhorn@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Professor Richard Langhorne was appointed Professor of Political Science and founding Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University at Newark, New Jersey, USA in 1996. He had previously been Director and Chief Executive of Wilton Park, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, since 1993.

Until then he had been Director of the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge since 1987, and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge since 1975. Before that, he was Lecturer in International History and Master of Rutherford College at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has been Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, Tufts University, Boston, Mass., and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Professor Langhorne was born in England in 1940 and educated at St. Edward's School, Oxford and St. John's College, Cambridge.

Professor Langhorne's research career has been devoted to the history and current functioning of diplomacy, statecraft and international organizations. In recent years he has been concerned with the effects of economic and cultural globalization on the mechanisms of global relationships and, in particular, with the constraints that follow from the failure, so far, of some new centers of global power to develop structures which will allow them to play an appropriate role in world affairs. He was awarded a Carnegie Corporation Fellowship with funding to pursue this topic further in 2001.

Professor Langhorne has made frequent appearances on CN8 and NJ12 during the Iraq war and radio interviews on homeland security issues.

Professor Langhorne's main publications include the following:

• The Practice of Diplomacy: its evolution, theory and administration (with Keith Hamilton), Routledge, London, 1995 (also an ebook).

• The Coming of Globalization: its evolution and consequences, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2001 (also an ebook).

• Guide to International Politics and Diplomacy, (editor and chief contributor), Continuum, Cassell, 2002, paperback 2004.

• Diplomacy and Governance, MGIMO Moscow, 2004.

• The Essentials of Global Politics, Hodder Arnold, 2005.