Christopher W Hobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6243443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W Hobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobson |
| SIGNATURE | HOBSON C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5877-1578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Relationship Between Psychological Flexibility and Parental Reflective Functioning, and Their Association With Parental Stress
The present study aimed to explore the relationship between psychological flexibility (PF), parental reflective functioning (PRF) and their independent associations with parental stress. PF is described as the process of noticing and accepting thoughts and feelings and continuing to act in line with one’s values. While PRF involves: Pre-mentalising (PM), Certainty about mental states (CMS) and Interest and curiosity in mental states (IC). A total…
Associations between Parental Depression and Anxiety and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Investigating Expressed Emotion as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism
Parental psychopathology can influence the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children through its effects on the emotional climate at home. Expressed Emotion (EE) is a measure of family climate that reflects the emotional quality of attributions parents make about their child and is proposed to be a transdiagnostic risk factor for the development of emotional and behavioral problems. The current study included children (N…
‘It’s intense’ – A mixed-methods analysis of how the early Covid-pandemic impacted on the wellbeing of practitioners in a UK homeless organization
Knowledge about the wellbeing of medical professionals working through the COVID-19 pandemic and its practice implications is expanding extensively. It remains, however, sparse for 'essential' (aka critical) community practitioners. We addressed this gap using a repeated-measures analysis of COVID-pandemic wellbeing experiences of critical, homeless-sector practitioners. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, capitalizing on a pre-pandem…
A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative studies that investigate the emotional experiences of staff working in homeless settings
Grounding a PIE in the sky’: Laying empirical foundations for a psychologically informed environment (PIE) to enhance well‐being and practice in a homeless organisation
While psychologically informed environments (PIEs) are gaining in prominence in efforts to improve well-being and practice in the homeless sector, their empirical foundations remain tenuous. We present a unique scoping needs analysis of staff and client well-being, staff attitudes and the social–therapeutic climate in a UK-based homeless prevention organisation (prior to PIE implementation). Our aims were: (a) to apply a robust framework to pinpo…
Shining a light on the experiences of staff working with young homeless people: A grounded theory study
Reckoning with our limits
Peer-reviewed
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region." Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(1), pp. 1–2
Responding to Failure: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya
During its first decade in existence, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has struggled to transcend the complexities that plague humanitarian action. This article examines the political challenges that shape the practice of R2P, as well as the discourse that informs it. It reflects on the constant presence of failure that haunts humanitarian intervention, and argues for a more humble stance on what is possible in such situations. Humili…
Privatising the war on drugs
A defining feature of the ‘9/11 wars’ has been the prominent role played by private military and security companies (pmsc). The growth of this market for military and security services has not gone unnoticed. Yet the role pmsc have played in supporting the US-led war on drugs has largely gone under the radar, both literally and figuratively. The aim of this article is to look at the activities of pmsc funded by the USA in Latin America, and to co…
Abe at Ground Zero: The consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi
Japan's searing summer of 2013 saw the lid slide further off Fukushima Daiichi and its Pandora's box of radioactive and political crises. The company in charge, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), already Japan's most distrusted firm, was irredeemably exposed as dangerously incompetent. A slew of reports concerning leaks of high-level radiation led to increasingly concerned appeals, from within Japan and from overseas, for the Abe Shinzo govern…
Liberal democracy and beyond: Extending the Sequencing Debate
The extreme optimism that shaped the nascent democracy promotion community in the 1980s and early 1990s has been strongly tempered by an increasing number of setbacks to the global expansion of democracy. Zakaria’s influential ‘illiberal democracies’ argument was an early example of this trend towards a more uncertain outlook about democracy’s prospects. His argument was useful in focusing attention on the conceptual underpinnings of these practi…
Towards a Critical Theory of Democratic Peace
The Democratic Peace research programme remains a prominent and influential strand of International Relations theory. It occupies a central place in the discipline, both as a dominant version of liberal internationalism, and as a supposedly paradigmatic case demonstrating the strengths of positivist scholarship. Nonetheless, Democratic Peace scholarship has been challenged by recent real world events, notably the belligerent behaviour of democrat…
Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace
Beyond the End of History: The Need for a `Radical Historicisation' of Democracy in International Relations
To properly comprehend democracy's present and future role in politics, particularly in regards to processes of democratisation and democracy promotion, we must cultivate a more nuanced reading of democracy's past. Needed is `a radical historicisation of democracy', in Frank Ankersmit's words, which foregrounds that democracy is a contingent historical fact, necessarily conditioned by its past. This position is contrasted to the standard account …
The Limits of Liberal-Democracy Promotion
One of the few unambiguously positive outcomes of the George W. Bush years is a greater interest in the practice of democracy promotion. However, the expansion of scholarship in this area has not been matched by an equal expansion in its scope. There continues to be an overwhelming tendency to focus exclusively on empirical case studies and policy prescriptions, usually informed by a set of unstated liberal assumptions. Nothing is necessarily wro…
A forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East: US democracy promotion and the ‘war on terror’
Following the 11 September terrorist attacks, a belief has emerged that one of the root causes of Islamic extremism lies in the repressive nature of the regimes that populate the Middle East. Thus the spread of democracy has become a major component of the Bush administration's 'war on terror' Previously dismissed as Wilsonian idealism, the promotion of democracy is now considered a strategic necessity to address the threat posed by terrorism. De…
Liberal democracy and beyond: Extending the Sequencing Debate
The extreme optimism that shaped the nascent democracy promotion community in the 1980s and early 1990s has been strongly tempered by an increasing number of setbacks to the global expansion of democracy. Zakaria’s influential ‘illiberal democracies’ argument was an early example of this trend towards a more uncertain outlook about democracy’s prospects. His argument was useful in focusing attention on the conceptual underpinnings of these practi…
Beyond the End of History: The Need for a `Radical Historicisation' of Democracy in International Relations
To properly comprehend democracy's present and future role in politics, particularly in regards to processes of democratisation and democracy promotion, we must cultivate a more nuanced reading of democracy's past. Needed is `a radical historicisation of democracy', in Frank Ankersmit's words, which foregrounds that democracy is a contingent historical fact, necessarily conditioned by its past. This position is contrasted to the standard account …
Responding to Failure: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya
During its first decade in existence, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has struggled to transcend the complexities that plague humanitarian action. This article examines the political challenges that shape the practice of R2P, as well as the discourse that informs it. It reflects on the constant presence of failure that haunts humanitarian intervention, and argues for a more humble stance on what is possible in such situations. Humili…
The Limits of Liberal-Democracy Promotion
One of the few unambiguously positive outcomes of the George W. Bush years is a greater interest in the practice of democracy promotion. However, the expansion of scholarship in this area has not been matched by an equal expansion in its scope. There continues to be an overwhelming tendency to focus exclusively on empirical case studies and policy prescriptions, usually informed by a set of unstated liberal assumptions. Nothing is necessarily wro…
Towards a Critical Theory of Democratic Peace
The Democratic Peace research programme remains a prominent and influential strand of International Relations theory. It occupies a central place in the discipline, both as a dominant version of liberal internationalism, and as a supposedly paradigmatic case demonstrating the strengths of positivist scholarship. Nonetheless, Democratic Peace scholarship has been challenged by recent real world events, notably the belligerent behaviour of democrat…
Privatising the war on drugs
A defining feature of the ‘9/11 wars’ has been the prominent role played by private military and security companies (pmsc). The growth of this market for military and security services has not gone unnoticed. Yet the role pmsc have played in supporting the US-led war on drugs has largely gone under the radar, both literally and figuratively. The aim of this article is to look at the activities of pmsc funded by the USA in Latin America, and to co…
Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace
A forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East: US democracy promotion and the ‘war on terror’
Following the 11 September terrorist attacks, a belief has emerged that one of the root causes of Islamic extremism lies in the repressive nature of the regimes that populate the Middle East. Thus the spread of democracy has become a major component of the Bush administration's 'war on terror' Previously dismissed as Wilsonian idealism, the promotion of democracy is now considered a strategic necessity to address the threat posed by terrorism. De…
Grounding a PIE in the sky’: Laying empirical foundations for a psychologically informed environment (PIE) to enhance well‐being and practice in a homeless organisation
While psychologically informed environments (PIEs) are gaining in prominence in efforts to improve well-being and practice in the homeless sector, their empirical foundations remain tenuous. We present a unique scoping needs analysis of staff and client well-being, staff attitudes and the social–therapeutic climate in a UK-based homeless prevention organisation (prior to PIE implementation). Our aims were: (a) to apply a robust framework to pinpo…
Reckoning with our limits
Peer-reviewed
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region." Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(1), pp. 1–2
A forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East: US democracy promotion and the ‘war on terror’
Following the 11 September terrorist attacks, a belief has emerged that one of the root causes of Islamic extremism lies in the repressive nature of the regimes that populate the Middle East. Thus the spread of democracy has become a major component of the Bush administration's 'war on terror' Previously dismissed as Wilsonian idealism, the promotion of democracy is now considered a strategic necessity to address the threat posed by terrorism. De…
Beyond the End of History: The Need for a `Radical Historicisation' of Democracy in International Relations
To properly comprehend democracy's present and future role in politics, particularly in regards to processes of democratisation and democracy promotion, we must cultivate a more nuanced reading of democracy's past. Needed is `a radical historicisation of democracy', in Frank Ankersmit's words, which foregrounds that democracy is a contingent historical fact, necessarily conditioned by its past. This position is contrasted to the standard account …
The Limits of Liberal-Democracy Promotion
One of the few unambiguously positive outcomes of the George W. Bush years is a greater interest in the practice of democracy promotion. However, the expansion of scholarship in this area has not been matched by an equal expansion in its scope. There continues to be an overwhelming tendency to focus exclusively on empirical case studies and policy prescriptions, usually informed by a set of unstated liberal assumptions. Nothing is necessarily wro…
Towards a Critical Theory of Democratic Peace
The Democratic Peace research programme remains a prominent and influential strand of International Relations theory. It occupies a central place in the discipline, both as a dominant version of liberal internationalism, and as a supposedly paradigmatic case demonstrating the strengths of positivist scholarship. Nonetheless, Democratic Peace scholarship has been challenged by recent real world events, notably the belligerent behaviour of democrat…
Between the Theory and Practice of Democratic Peace
Liberal democracy and beyond: Extending the Sequencing Debate
The extreme optimism that shaped the nascent democracy promotion community in the 1980s and early 1990s has been strongly tempered by an increasing number of setbacks to the global expansion of democracy. Zakaria’s influential ‘illiberal democracies’ argument was an early example of this trend towards a more uncertain outlook about democracy’s prospects. His argument was useful in focusing attention on the conceptual underpinnings of these practi…
Abe at Ground Zero: The consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi
Japan's searing summer of 2013 saw the lid slide further off Fukushima Daiichi and its Pandora's box of radioactive and political crises. The company in charge, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), already Japan's most distrusted firm, was irredeemably exposed as dangerously incompetent. A slew of reports concerning leaks of high-level radiation led to increasingly concerned appeals, from within Japan and from overseas, for the Abe Shinzo govern…
Privatising the war on drugs
A defining feature of the ‘9/11 wars’ has been the prominent role played by private military and security companies (pmsc). The growth of this market for military and security services has not gone unnoticed. Yet the role pmsc have played in supporting the US-led war on drugs has largely gone under the radar, both literally and figuratively. The aim of this article is to look at the activities of pmsc funded by the USA in Latin America, and to co…
Reckoning with our limits
Peer-reviewed
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region." Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(1), pp. 1–2
Responding to Failure: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya
During its first decade in existence, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has struggled to transcend the complexities that plague humanitarian action. This article examines the political challenges that shape the practice of R2P, as well as the discourse that informs it. It reflects on the constant presence of failure that haunts humanitarian intervention, and argues for a more humble stance on what is possible in such situations. Humili…
Grounding a PIE in the sky’: Laying empirical foundations for a psychologically informed environment (PIE) to enhance well‐being and practice in a homeless organisation
While psychologically informed environments (PIEs) are gaining in prominence in efforts to improve well-being and practice in the homeless sector, their empirical foundations remain tenuous. We present a unique scoping needs analysis of staff and client well-being, staff attitudes and the social–therapeutic climate in a UK-based homeless prevention organisation (prior to PIE implementation). Our aims were: (a) to apply a robust framework to pinpo…
Shining a light on the experiences of staff working with young homeless people: A grounded theory study
A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of qualitative studies that investigate the emotional experiences of staff working in homeless settings
‘It’s intense’ – A mixed-methods analysis of how the early Covid-pandemic impacted on the wellbeing of practitioners in a UK homeless organization
Knowledge about the wellbeing of medical professionals working through the COVID-19 pandemic and its practice implications is expanding extensively. It remains, however, sparse for 'essential' (aka critical) community practitioners. We addressed this gap using a repeated-measures analysis of COVID-pandemic wellbeing experiences of critical, homeless-sector practitioners. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, capitalizing on a pre-pandem…
Associations between Parental Depression and Anxiety and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Investigating Expressed Emotion as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism
Parental psychopathology can influence the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children through its effects on the emotional climate at home. Expressed Emotion (EE) is a measure of family climate that reflects the emotional quality of attributions parents make about their child and is proposed to be a transdiagnostic risk factor for the development of emotional and behavioral problems. The current study included children (N…
The Relationship Between Psychological Flexibility and Parental Reflective Functioning, and Their Association With Parental Stress
The present study aimed to explore the relationship between psychological flexibility (PF), parental reflective functioning (PRF) and their independent associations with parental stress. PF is described as the process of noticing and accepting thoughts and feelings and continuing to act in line with one’s values. While PRF involves: Pre-mentalising (PM), Certainty about mental states (CMS) and Interest and curiosity in mental states (IC). A total…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (5 works)