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Nina Hall
Associate Professor of International Relations
About
Nina Hall is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She focuses on transnational advocacy, international organizations, climate change, and New Zealand foreign policy. She is currently conducting research on how countries led by far-right leaders engage in global environmental politics.
Nina 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 was previously a Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance, a Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently a Faculty Affiliate at the SNF Agora Institute and the co-founder of an independent think tank, Te Kuaka (formerly New Zealand Alternative).
Nina Hall’s most recent book is Climate Activism, Digital Technologies, and Organizational Change (CUP, 2024), with Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni. A previous book, Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local (OUP, 2022) won the ISA’s Best Book Award in International Communication. It was shortlisted for BISA’s Susan Strange Best Book and received an Honorable Mention from APSA’s IT and Politics Section. Nina has published widely including in the International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Global Environmental Politics. Her first book was Displacement, Development and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates? (Routledge, 2016). She has also written for: The Guardian, Die Zeit Online, Washington Post, Project Syndicate, and The Conversation.
Nina 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 was previously a Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance, a Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently a Faculty Affiliate at the SNF Agora Institute and the co-founder of an independent think tank, Te Kuaka (formerly New Zealand Alternative).
Nina Hall’s most recent book is Climate Activism, Digital Technologies, and Organizational Change (CUP, 2024), with Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni. A previous book, Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local (OUP, 2022) won the ISA’s Best Book Award in International Communication. It was shortlisted for BISA’s Susan Strange Best Book and received an Honorable Mention from APSA’s IT and Politics Section. Nina has published widely including in the International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Global Environmental Politics. Her first book was Displacement, Development and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates? (Routledge, 2016). She has also written for: The Guardian, Die Zeit Online, Washington Post, Project Syndicate, and The Conversation.
- Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy, with N. Reiners, S. Basu, S. Chaudhry, L. Henry, P. A. Medie, L. Mcintosh Sundstrom, A. Vilán, and K. Zvobgo, in International Studies Review 27:3 (September 2025)
- Non viviamo “vite monotematiche”: Perché le organizzazioni di advocacy digitale sono fondamentali per i diritti delle donne e delle persone LGBTIQ+, in Diritto & Questioni pubbliche, special issue on Gender and Digital Technologies: Between Violence, Discrimination, and Resistance, (May 2025)
- Progressive Politics? The European Climate Movement & Black Lives Matter, with C. Lawrie* and Sahar Priano* in Progressive Politics, A. Mattoni (editor), Edward Elgar Publishing (2025) *Former SAIS Masters Students
- Climate Activism, Digital Technologies, and Organizational Change, with M. Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Cambridge University Press (2025)
- We don't live “Single-Issue Lives”: Why Digital Advocacy Organizations matter for Gender and LGBTIQ Advocacy, in European Journal of Gender and Politics (2024)
- Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local, Oxford University Press (2022)
- Blessing or Curse? The Effects of Earmarked Funding in UNICEF and UNDP, with L. Schmid and A. Reitzenstein, in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 27:3 (2021)
- 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 (2020)
- 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
Beyond Obstruction: Rethinking the Far Right and Climate Governance
Nina Hall, Global Policy, January 30, 2026
Under Italy’s Far-Right Government, Liberation Day Takes on New Importance
The Spinoff, April 28, 2025
We ‘Do Not Live Single-issue Lives’: Why Digital Advocacy Organizations Matter For Gender and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer Advocacy
European Journal of Politics and Gender, April 22, 2024
Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers
Stanford Social Innovation Review, March 18, 2024
New Zealand Abandons Indigenous Rights and Pacific Priorities in Foreign Policy
The Diplomat, December 21, 2023
Lone Wolves, Mobilizers, and Organizers: How Members Matter for Advocacy
The Global Blog, March 13, 2023