Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies
Director of Distance Learning Programmes
- Name:
- Dr J. Simon Rofe
- Email address:
- jsimon.rofe@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7898 4548
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
- Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 4409
- Academic Support Hours:
- By appointment
Biography
Dr J. Simon Rofe is Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, at SOAS University of London: and the inaugural Programme Director for the MA Global Diplomacy, he was the School’s Head of Digital Learning (2016-2020) where he devised the institution’s first Online Learning Strategy in 2018, and led in the strategic response to COVID 19 in preparations for online delivery for September 2020. He has designed, developed and delivered under the aegis of the IR Model (Rofe, 2011) numerous online learning programmes at a variety of HEI, NGO and other organisations; he developed MOOCs in the first wave of their deployment with Understanding Research Methods MOOC and then Global Diplomacy: Diplomacy in the Modern World and has been at the forefront of digital learning for over a decade. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London and is widely published in the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching. For 2020-21 Simon Chairs ISA’s Active Learning in International Affairs Section ALIAS and was Co-Chair/Founder of BISA's Learning and Teaching Working Group 2009-2017
Simon’s research focuses on Diplomacy in its many guises: he has forwarded his understanding of Global Diplomacy through work on a variety of areas including Soft Power & Public Diplomacy, and Anglo-American relations and The US Embassy in London, Knowledge Diplomacy and most recently Sports Diplomacy.
Simon founded the field of Sports Diplomacy, through his scholarship, working with key stakeholders and practitioners after a role at London 2012. He has shared counsel with numerous national and international bodies, governments and other stakeholders such as Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Embassies, National Governing Bodies, International Sporting Federations, National Olympic Committees, Anti-Doping Organisations, global media organisations and athlete advocacy organisations. Simon developed the first MA module globally to address ‘Sport and Diplomacy: More than a Game’, founded the Sport, Diplomacy, and Governance Hub, and has established the Global Sports Conversations podcast series. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sport Humanities.
Simon is the co-editor of Bloomsbury's Key Studies in Diplomacy book series, a member of the founding editorial board for
Diplomatic: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society and been a member of the Editorial Board of Diplomatic History 2015-2018. From 2020-2022 Simon Chairs ISA’s Diplomatic Studies Section and was Vice-Chair Transatlantic Studies Association 2013-2016.
Prior to joining SOAS in 2011 he was Senior Lecturer and Director of Distance Learning Director in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester. He has previously held positions in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London at UK Defence Academy; in the American Studies Department at Canterbury Christ Church University; the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and the as Associate Lecturer at the Open University.
He is a member of the UK Soft Power Group and the Football for Peace UK Steering Committee.
Simon has supervised numerous Research Students and would welcome the opportunity to supervise more:
Current Phd Students where I am Primary supervisor:
- Peter Mayers
- Jonas Mikkelsen
- Elizabeth Oriel
- Teia Rogers
Holmes, Alison R. and Rofe, J. Simon (2016) Global Diplomacy: Theories, Types and Models. Colorado: Westview.
Rofe, J. Simon and Holmes, Alison R. (2012) The Embassy in Grosvenor Square – American Ambassadors to the United Kingdom 1938-2008. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Williams, Andrew J. and Hadfield, Amelia and Rofe, J. Simon (2012) International History and International Relations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.
Rofe, J. Simon (2007) Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy and the Welles mission. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nisbett, Melissa and Rofe, J. Simon (2022) 'Soft Power Polls and the Fate of Liberal Democracy'. Global Perspectives, (3) 1.
Rofe, J. Simon and Postlethwaite, Verity (2021) 'Scholarship and Sports Diplomacy: the Case of Japan and the United Kingdom'. Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, (3) 2, pp 332-354.
Rofe, J. Simon (2021) 'Sport Diplomacy and Sport for Development SfD: A Discourse of Challenges and Opportunity'. Journal of Global Sport Management, pp 1-15. [Forthcoming]
Rofe, J. Simon and Tomlinson, Alan (2020) 'The Untold Story of FIFA’s Diplomacy and the 1966 World Cup: North Korea, Africa and Sir Stanley Rous'. The International History Review, (42) 3, pp 505-525.
Rofe, J. Simon (2019) 'The UN and the Postwar Global Order: Dumbarton Oaks in Historical Perspective after 75 Years'. Journal of Contemporary History, (54) 2, pp 256-264.
Lee, Yenn and Rofe, J. Simon (2016) 'Paragogy and flipped assessment: Experience of designing and running a MOOC on research methods'. Open Learning: the Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning.
Rofe, J. Simon (2016) 'Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework'. Diplomacy and Statecraft, (27) 2, pp 212-230.
Rofe, J. Simon (2016) 'Prologue: Diplomacy and Sport'. Diplomacy and Statecraft, (27) 2, pp 207-211.
Rofe, J. Simon and Tomlinson, Alan (2016) '"Strenuous Competition on the field of play, Diplomacy off it" – The 1908 London Olympics, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Balfour, and Transatlantic Relations'. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, (15) 1, pp 60-79.
Rofe, J. Simon (2014) 'It is a squad game: Manchester United as a diplomatic non-state actor in international affairs'. Sport in Society, (17) 9, pp 1136-1154.
Rofe, J. Simon and Pigman, Geoffrey Allen (2014) 'Sport and Diplomacy: an introduction'. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, (17) 9, pp 1095-1097.
Rofe, J. Simon (2012) 'Pre-war Post-war Planning: The Phoney War, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Case of the Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations'. Diplomacy and Statecraft, (23) 2, pp 254-279.
Rofe, J. Simon (2011) 'Isolationism and internationalism in transatlantic affairs'. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, (9) 1, pp 1-6.
Rofe, J. Simon and Thompson, John (2011) ''Internationalists in Isolationist times' - Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and a Rooseveltian Maxim'. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, (9) 1, pp 46-62.
Rofe, J. Simon (2011) 'The ‘IR Model’: A Schema for Pedagogic Design and Development in International Relations Distance Learning Programmes'. European Political Science, (10) 1, pp 103-117.
Rofe, J. Simon (2008) '“Under the Influence of Mahan”: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and their Understanding of American National Interest'. Diplomacy and Statecraft, (19) 4, pp 732-745.
Rofe, J. Simon (2007) 'Prescription and Remedy: Lothian’s influence upon Anglo-American relations during the Phony War in The Round Table'. The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, (96) 389, pp 151-171.
Rofe, J. Simon, (ed.), (2018) Sport and diplomacy: Games within games. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Key Studies in Diplomacy).
Scott-Smith, Giles and Rofe, J. Simon, (eds.), (2017) Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. (The World of the Roosevelts).
Rofe, J. Simon and Stewart, Andrew, (eds.), (2013) Diplomats at war. The American experience. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters.
Rofe, J. Simon (2021) 'The soft power of the Olympics in the age of Covid 19'. Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport. United Kingdom: The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, pp 24-25.
Rofe, J. Simon (2019) 'Politics of Sports'. In: Maguire, Joseph and Falcous, Mark and Liston, Katie, (eds.), The Business and Culture of Sports. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, pp 93-113.
Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2018) 'Barnstorming Frenchmen: the impact of Paris Université Club's U.S. tours and the role of the individual in sports diplomacy'. In: Rofe, J. Simon, (ed.), Sport and diplomacy: Games within games. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp 130-146.
Rofe, J. Simon (2017) '“Prelude to the Future”: The Antecedents of the Bretton Woods Architecture'. In: Scott-Smith, Giles and Rofe, J. Simon, (eds.), Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 35-50.
Sherman, Sarah and Rofe, J. Simon (2017) 'Using Forums in Moodle to Provide Peer Feedback'. In: Havemann, Leo and Sherman, Sarah, (eds.), Assessment, Feedback & Technology: Context and Case Studies in Bloomsbury. London: Bloomsbury Learning Enviroment, pp 61-62.
Rofe, J. Simon (2017) 'FDR's Closest Contender: Thomas E. Dewey and the 1944 election'. In: Johnstone, Andrew and Priest, Andrew, (eds.), US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press.
Rofe, J. Simon (2017) 'The Cold War in Western Europe'. In: Masur, Matthew, (ed.), Understanding and Teaching the Cold War. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Scott-Smith, Giles and Rofe, J. Simon (2017) 'Bretton Woods: A Global Perspective'. In: Scott-Smith, Giles and Rofe, J. Simon, (eds.), Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 1-13.
Rofe, J. Simon (2016) 'Trust between Adversaries and Allies: President George H.W. Bush, Trust and the End of the Cold War'. In: Klimke, Martin and Kreis, Reinhild and Ostermann, Christian, (eds.), Trust, but Verify: Transformation of the Cold War Order. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, pp 63-84.
Rofe, J. Simon (2015) 'Prewar and wartime postwar planning: antecedents to the UN moment in San Francisco, 1945'. In: Plesch, Dan and Weiss, Thomas G., (eds.), Past as Prelude? Wartime History and the Future United Nations. New York: Routledge.
Rofe, J. Simon (2015) 'End and Ends: the Cold War in International History at systemic and sub-systemic levels'. In: Luthi, Lorenz, (ed.), The Regional Cold Wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: Crucial Periods and Turning Points. Washington D. C.: Woodrow Wilson Centre & Stanford University Press.
Rofe, J. Simon (2015) 'Online and Distance Learning'. In: Ishiyama, John and Miller, William J. and Eszter, Simon, (eds.), Handbook On Teaching And Learning In Political Science And International Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Rofe, J. Simon (2014) 'Presidential Peacemaking: President George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War'. In: Cullinane, Michael and Elliot, Clare, (eds.), Perspectives on Presidential Leadership: An International View of the White House. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.
Rofe, J. Simon (2012) 'Diplomatic Milestones, 1918 to 1945: History and Analysis of the Shift from Isolationism to Internationalism'. In: McMahon, Robert J. and Zeiler, Thomas W., (eds.), Guide to U.S. foreign policy: a diplomatic history. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: CQ Press.
Rofe, J. Simon (2012) 'Europe As the Nexus for Roosevelt's International Strategy'. In: Thompson, John and Krabbendam, Hans, (eds.), America's Transatlantic Turn: Theodore Roosevelt and the "Discovery" of Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rofe, J. Simon (2011) 'Preparedness and Defense: The Origins of Theodore Roosevelt's Strategy for the United States on the International Stage'. In: Ricard, Serge, (ed.), A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp 78-93.
Rofe, J. Simon (2011) 'Something that works: the IR Model’s approach to technology'. In: Curtis, Steven and Rofe, J. Simon, (eds.), Does the Medium Matter? IT-Assisted Learning and Teaching in International Relations and Politics, C-SAP Why Social Science Matters, Issue 5. Birmingham: C-SAP.
Rofe, J. Simon (2011) 'The IR Model and E-moderating'. In: Salmon, Gilly, (ed.), E-moderating: the key to teaching and learning online. 3rd edition.. London: Routledge Falmer.
Rofe, J. Simon (2010) 'Lord Lothian’s Ambassadorship in Washington August 1939-December 1940'. In: Roberts, Priscilla, (ed.), Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1900-1940. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters.
Rofe, J. Simon and Marshall, Alex (2009) 'An Abortive Special Relationship? - US-Russian Relations in the Post Cold War World'. In: Dumbrell, John and Schafer, Axel, (eds.), America's 'special relationships': foreign and domestic aspects of the politics of alliance. London; New York: Routledge.
Rofe, J. Simon (2009) 'Lord Lothian, 1939-40'. In: Hopkins, Michael and Kelly, Saul and Young, John, (eds.), The Washington Embassy: British ambassadors to the United States, 1939-77. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rofe, J. Simon (2007) 'The United States Security Dilemma – a Nation at War'. In: Radoi, Mireille, (ed.), My USA: views on American national security and foreign policy. Bucharest: Tritonic.
Parrish, Richard and Duval, Antoine and Mitevska, Silvija and Perez-Gonzalez, Carmen and Smokvina, Vanja and Sonntag, Albrecht and Zintz, Thierry and Cattaneo, Andrea and Murray, Stuart and Rofe, J. Simon (2021) Promoting a Strategic Approach to EU Sport Diplomacy. Rijeka: University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law ; European Commission Representation in Croatia.
Rofe, J. Simon (2019) All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sport, Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Interim Report, July 2019. .
Rofe, J. Simon (2018) Putin Already Won in Hosting Russia 2018: The FIFA World Cup and Sport Diplomacy. London: RUSI Newsbrief Vol. 38 No.7.
Rofe, J. Simon (2018) ‘And the Gold Medal Goes to’: Sport Diplomacy in Action at the Winter Olympics. London: RUSI Newsbrief Vol. 38 No.1.
Rofe, J. Simon (2018) Diplomacy to mobilise momentum for girls’ education. Wilton Park; Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Rofe, J. Simon and Brobbery, Nancy (2021) 'Anonymised. Identifier X+1'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Mishra, Saurabh and Buhari, Abdul (2021) 'Transcript: Abdul Buhari'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2021) 'Kevin Bahun-Wilson Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2021) 'Issac Robert Kwapong Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2021) 'Petrina Aron & Ramah Mumba Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Mishra, Saurabh and Volante, Ricky (2021) 'Transcript: Ricky Volante'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Doshi, Aashika and Hewitt, Ashton (2021) 'Transcript: Ashton Hewitt'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Brobbery, Nancy and Pritchard, Bradley (2021) 'Transcript: Bradley Pritchard'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Mishra, Saurabh and X, X (2021) 'Anonymised. Identifier X+2'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Doshi, Aashika and X, X (2021) 'Anonymised. Identifier X+3'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Bakary Sakho & Paul Odonnat Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Astou N’Diaye Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Amadou Gallo Fall transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Chris Dial Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Will Voigt Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Stevy Worah-Ozimo Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Sylvère-Henry Cissé Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Cynthia Mumbo Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Clarisse Machanguana Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Will Mbiakop Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Carmine Calzonetti & Kenny Grant Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Kim Bohuny Transcript'.
(2020) 'Syra Sylla Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Youcef Ouldyassia Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Alphonse Bilé Transcript'.
Rofe, J. Simon and Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah (2020) 'Karabani Transcript'.
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