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      Dr Peter Hough

      ROLE: Associate Professor in International Politics
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Law
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 6034
      EMAIL: P.Hough@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Current Role

        Programme Leader for MA International Relations

        Qualifications1989: BSc International Relations, London School of Economics (2:1)

        1990: MSc International Relations, London School of Economics

        1994: PhD International Relations, City University, London (thesis 'Global Norms and theInternational Regulation of Pesticides')

         

        Selected Publications

        2019: Back to the future: environmental security in nineteenth century global politics. Global Security: Health, Science and Policy

        2018: ‘The Inuit’ in Colbourne & Anderson (eds) Indigenous Self-determination and Sustainable Economic Development (Routledge)

        2018:  ‘Insecurity: the new normal?’ in, Geib & Melzer (eds) Oxford Handbook on the   International Law of Global Security (OUP)

        2018:  ‘Military Ecocide’ in, Sayapin (ed) An Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law (Asser & Springer)

        2018:  Understanding Global Security (4th ed) Routledge: London.

        2017:  Haynes, Hough, Malik & Pettiford, World Politics (2nd ed.) , Routledge: London.

        2016:   'Ecological Security’ in Rethinking Security in the Twenty-First Century  Palgrave:  London

        2016:  'Environmental Insecurity' The Companion to Environmental Studies Routledge: London.

        2016:  'International Security' in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior  (ed. F. Moghaddam)

        2016: 'Trying to end the war on the world: the campaign to proscribe military ecocide' Global Security: Health, Science, and Policy 

        2015: 'Fighting Over the Last Drop? a Critique of the "Water Wars" thesis', Commonwealth Human Ecology Annual Journal.

        2015: 'Defending Nature. the evolution of the international legal restriction of military ecocide' in Capaldo, G (ed) Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2014 (OUP)

        2014:Hough, Malik, Pilbeam & Roberts, Security. From Theory to Practise, Routledge:London

        2014:Environmental Security: an Introduction, Routledge: London

        2014:Entry; 'The Rotterdam Convention' for Morin & Orsini (eds) Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance, Routledge: London.

        2013:Book Section: 'The Trading and Use of Agrochemicals', in B. Campbell & S.Ortiz (eds) Issues in Agroecology. Present Status and Future Prospects, Berlin: Springer.

        2013:Understanding Global Security (3rd edition) Routledge: London

        2013:The Arctic in International Politics. Coming in from the Cold, Routledge: London.

        2013:'Workplace Insecurity. The Case for Global Governance', Business Law Review 34 (2): 54-62.

        2012:'Worker Safety and Human Security. The Case for Global Governance' E-Journal of Comparative and International Labour Studies 1(3-4) Oct-Dec 2012.

        2012:'Worth the Energy? The Geopolitics of Arctic Oil', Central European Journal of International & Security Studies 6(2)

        2011:"Non-State Actors in the Global Health World", in B. Reinalda (ed) Ashgate Companion to Non-State Actors, Ashgate: Farnham Surrey pp.433-446.

        2011World Politics. International Relations and Globalization in the 21st Century, Pearson..

        2011 "Pesticides and Persistent Organic Pollutants", chapter in G.Kutting (ed) Global Environmental Politics, Routledge.

        2008'Global Steps towards Human Security' Security and Human Rights 19(1), January 2008, pp.15-23. (ISSN 1874-7337)

        2008 Understanding Global Security (2nd edition) Routledge. (ISBN 978-0-415-42142-3).

        2008'Make Goals Not War. The Contribution of International Football to World Peace' The International Journal of the History of Sport 25(9), September 2008.

        2008 Entry on 'Pesticides, Insecticides, Herbicides' for the Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (1,500 words).

        2005: Who's Securing Whom? The need for International Relations to Embrace Human Security, St Antony's International Review 1(2) November 2005 pp.72-87 . (ISSN 1746-451X)

        2004: Understanding Global Security Routlege, London.

        2003: 'Poisons in the system: the global regulation of hazardous pesticides'. Global Environmental Politics 3(2) May 2003. 


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        International Relations, Globalization, Security Politics, Global environmental policy, The Arctic

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Global Security Politics, International Environmental Politics, Sport and Politics, the politics of the Arctic.

        Publication Feed

        Back to the future: environmental security in nineteenth century global politics

        Hough, Peter (2019) Back to the future: environmental security in nineteenth century global politics. Global Security: Health, Science and Policy . ISSN 2377-9497 (Published online first)

        Military ecocide

        Hough, Peter (2019) Military ecocide. In: An Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law. Sayapin, Sergey , ed. Asser & Springer. (Accepted/In press)

        Security: the new normal?

        Hough, Peter (2018) Security: the new normal? In: Oxford Handbook on the International Law of Global Security. Geib, Robin and Melzer, Nils , eds. Oxford University Press. (Accepted/In press)

        The Inuit: sustaining themselves, the Arctic and the World

        Hough, Peter (2018) The Inuit: sustaining themselves, the Arctic and the World. In: Indigenous Self-determination and Sustainable Economic Development. Colbourne, R. and Anderson, R. , eds. Routledge. (Accepted/In press)

        Environmental insecurity

        Hough, Peter (2018) Environmental insecurity. In: Companion to Environmental Studies. Castree, Noel and Hulme, Mike and Proctor, James D. , eds. Routledge, pp. 625-628. ISBN 9781138192201

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Member of editorial board for the journal Global Security: Health, Science and Polic
        • Reviewer for the 'Review of International Studies'.
        • Member of British International Studies Association committees on Environmental Change and Human Security.
        • 2017: evidence published by the UK Parliamentary Defence Sub-committee for their ‘Defence in the Arctic Inquiry’
        • 2017:   Panellist on tv show Roundtable on TRT World for episode ‘Are Pesticides necessary for food production?’ broadcast October 20th.
        • 2016: invited to brief diplomats on Climate Change policy by the Commonwealth Secretariat for their Diplomatic Induction Programme (Oct 18th)
        • 2016: my work on ecocide was cited in a report by the International Law Commission (3rd ILC Report on the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts) presented at the UN General Assembly (68th Session).
        • 2014: My book The Arctic in International Politics: Coming in From the Cold was cited by the Ministry of Defence of the Government of Finland in a 2014 strategic publication Russia of Transformations. (it is also held by NATO in their multimedia library, the International Court of Justice’s Peace Palace Library and at the US Coast Guard Library)

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