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Nina Hall
Assistant Professor of International Relations
About
Nina Hall is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her core areas of expertise are: international organizations, transnational advocacy, climate adaptation, and global refugee governance. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a Master’s Degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She previously worked as a Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance, and as a policy officer at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She is currently writing a book on transnational advocacy in the digital era, to be published by Oxford University Press. She is a co-founder of an independent think tank, New Zealand Alternative, and frequently writes on New Zealand foreign policy.
- Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World, editor, Bridget Williams Books (2020)
- Innovation and Adaptation in Advocacy Organizations Throughout the Digital Eras, with J. Dennis, in Journal of Information Technology and Politics 17:2 (2020)
- When do Refugees Matter? The Importance of Issue-Salience for Digital Advocacy Organizations, in Interest Groups and Advocacy 8:3 (2019)
- Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: What's Changing and Why?, with H. Schmitz and M. Dedmond, in International Studies Quarterly 64:1 (2019)
- Norm Contestation in the Digital Era, Campaigning for Refugees Rights, in Journal of International Affairs 95:3 (2019)
- Theorizing the Role of Executive Heads in International Organizations, with N. Woods, in European Journal of International Relations 24:4 (2017)
- Global Climate Adaptation Governance: Why Isn't it Legally Binding?, with A. Persson, in European Journal of International Relations 24:3 (2017)
- What is Adaptation to Climate Change? Epistemic Ambiguity in the Climate Finance System, in Journal of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 17:1 (2017)
- A Catalyst for Cooperation: the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and the Humanitarian Response to Climate Change, in Global Governance: a Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 22:3 (2016)
- Displacement, Development and Climate Change, International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates, Routledge (2016)
- Money or the Mandate? Why International Organizations Engage with the Climate Change Regime, in Global Environmental Politics 15:2 (2015)
- Moving Beyond its Mandate? UNHCR and Climate Change Displacement, in Journal of International Organization Studies 4:1 (2013)
- East Timorese Women Challenge Domestic Violence, in Australian Journal of Political Science 44:2 (2009)
In the News
H-Diplo teaching roundtable XXII-40 on environmental politics.
Nina Hall participated in Michigan State Department of History roundtable, 05/21
New Zealand economy, trade and China in focus after Ardern triumph.
Nina Hall quoted in Nikkei Asian Review, 10/23
Jacinda Ardern’s pandemic leadership will probably win her a second term in New Zealand.
Nina Hall wrote in The Washington Post, 10/17
The border may be closed, but New Zealand ignores its place in the world at its peril.
Nina Hall wrote in The Spinoff, 9/8
New Zealand is winning global kudos for our COVID-19 response. How do we use it?
Nina Hall wrote in The Spinoff, 5/8
A new approach to social sciences, humanities in a time of crisis
Nina Hall wrote in University World News, 5/7
The role of international relations in the COVID-19 world
Nina Hall interviewed on Radio New Zealand, 4/7
A kiwi in Europe: The weird, isolating realities of a COVID-19 world.
Nina Hall wrote on Stuff, 3/25