ninahall
Associate Prof of International Relations, Johns Hopkins, SAIS Europe.
IR, NGOs, IOs, advocacy, and climate change
Recent bk: cambridge.org/it/universitypress/…
- Reposted by ninahallClimate action 🤝 political left? Not necessarily. In a new ENSURED blog, @ninahall.bsky.social (@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social) challenges the idea that the far right is inherently anti-environment. In reality, Hall argues, it's far more complex. What does this mean for environmental governance? 👇
- 📣 📣 The ISA IO Section welcomes nominations for Excom positions. Deadline 30 Jan 2026. Please apply for: -Secretary (1) -Member-at-Large (3) -Graduate Student Member-at-Large (1) The link to very brief application form is: lnkd.in/e3XDN_84 Thanks for sharing widely!
- ✨New article out in International Studies Review✨ NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models. doi.org/10.1093/isr/...
- Thanks to all who contributed w/ feedback! @ninareiners.bsky.social @hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social @hahreejc.bsky.social @payoub.bsky.social @ninareiners.bsky.social @mer29-cam.bsky.social @mzdeloffre.bsky.social @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social & many more!
- When Trump withdrew last week from South Pacific Environmental Programme (SPREP) China stepped up immediately. China is giving US$200,000, matching the US contribution. One of many implications of US withdrawal from Intl' Orgs. @raffaelemstr.bsky.social www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...
- Neat to see "Beyond these Shores" a bk I edited on NZ foreign policy @ unity bks, local Wellington bookshop. Still available 5+ yrs after it came out! Great collaboration with @tekuaka.bsky.social
- Last week Trump withdrew from 66 international orgs (formal and informal) & treaties. Here's a great analysis. It's common practice for donors to review intl' institutions. BUT never seen such a mass withdrawal. @raffaelemstr.bsky.social @borzyskowski.bsky.social share.google/eeZrt1pndwVf...
- Final day of Winter School on AI & technology change. Students presented to Italian PM on UN Global Digital Compact. Great collaboration btw SAIS Europe & Uni of Bologna! 🙏 @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social
- Reposted by ninahallSo glad to see the Winter School on AI & Tech Change underway! 🌟 This is the second edition of this wonderful SAIS- @unibo.it collaboration - a project I’m truly proud of. Huge thanks to my amazing colleague @ninahall.bsky.social and our fantastic students for making this such an inspiring journey
- *Winter School on AI & Tech Change gets going today.* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social 20 students from Uni of Bologna & SAIS Europe discussing how to regulate AI globally. Great collaboration w/ @manuelamoschella.bsky.social & Alice Matttoni
- "Governing Digital China" Daniela Stockmann here @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social to share her new book at SAIS & UniBo Winter School on AI, and Technological Change. @connect-unibo.bsky.social
- *Winter School on AI & Tech Change gets going today.* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social 20 students from Uni of Bologna & SAIS Europe discussing how to regulate AI globally. Great collaboration w/ @manuelamoschella.bsky.social & Alice Matttoni
- **Deadline 15 Dec** for Workshop in Bologna, May 2026. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Submit your abstract on "Obstructionism in International Organisations" co-hosted w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social Deets 👇
- Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏
- Thanks Geneva for a wonderful few days of conversations! Sad to hear extent & impact of massive cuts to #UN & #ICRC budgets. But woke this morning to fresh snow & these gorgeous clouds. @ninareiners.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social
- NYT ripped into the Sierra Club for going woke (abandoning #climate campaign for DEI). Read @davekarpf.bsky.social on the actual challenge US #climate movement faces - esp. Erosion of democracy. @hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
- In London? Come along tonight "Governing the End" Lisa Vanhala's new book on #climate loss and damage. 18.30 @ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
- "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss & Damage" In London next Weds? Join this book launch of new brilliant work by Lisa Vanhala @ucl.ac.uk Looking fwd to it! @birshao.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
- Reposted by ninahallIn a new Nature Climate Change comment, we call for reflection on the role and purpose of #climatelitigation in light of unfortunate trends of challenges to judicial independence, deregulation & anti-climate litigation w/ @mer29-cam.bsky.social @highamian.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social
- Reposted by ninahallCheck out this new research paper "Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash" in @nature.com by @mer29-cam.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, @highamian.bsky.social & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Zohran Mamdani's won NYC mayoralty. Worthwhile reading his dad's book "Neither Settler nor Native", Harvard. A fascinating account of how nation state intertwined with colonial state: making indigenous ppls "permanent minorities" share.google/Tqcv0mEtRjyO...
- Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- & here's the full article (view only link) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- A BIG thanks again to @highamian.bsky.social for coordinating this & being corresponding author!
- Reposted by ninahallHad such a great and productive time with these amazing people in Rapallo for the Exploratory Symposia @europeanisa.bsky.social ! Perhaps we’re smiling too much for discussing the Far-Right in International Politics, but how can you blame us considering our project’s progresses and that view!
- En route to Rapallo for #EISA working sessions. Thanks to Lisbeth Zimmerman & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for getting us time in a wonderful place to write!
- "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss & Damage" In London next Weds? Join this book launch of new brilliant work by Lisa Vanhala @ucl.ac.uk Looking fwd to it! @birshao.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
- Buongiorno Rapallo! #EISA what a spot!!
- En route to Rapallo for #EISA working sessions. Thanks to Lisbeth Zimmerman & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for getting us time in a wonderful place to write!
- In London? I'm speaking on Far Right and Global Environmental Politics. Thurs 6 Nov 2-3pm @soasuni.bsky.social Please join! Deets below👇
- Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏
- Thanks to @stephofmann.bsky.social & the IR crew @eui-eu.bsky.social for wonderful feedback! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
- Huge CONGRATS to @hahrie.bsky.social for winning a McCarthur Genius Grant! Fantastic news! hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...
- What a wonderful weekend of "Sensing the Climate" conversations and experiences at our Festival! Here are artists Mali Weil & Joanne Yao in Le Serre, Bologna. Thanks all volunteers & participants! @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
- Next Thurs 16 Oct I'll be @unileiden.bsky.social Hague Campus. Speaking on "Far Right and Global Environmental Politics" 17 - 18.30. Details 👇 please join & spread the word!
- In two wks I'll be Leiden University, speaking at the Hague campus Thurs Oct 16 (17.00 - 18.30). Please join! @unileiden.bsky.social @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- What a scoop! Defence documents from five eyes meeting 👁️ left at a charity shop. Detail deepening military alliance to counter China. Uncovered by investigative journalist Nicky Hager. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...
- Reposted by ninahallExcited for #EISARapallo25 in a few weeks! With Prof. Lisbeth Zimmermann, @ninahall.bsky.social & others, we'll discuss the role & impact of the Far-Right in International Politics! And we're in great company! Programme's out now! eisa-net.org/wp-content/u... Thanks @europeanisa.bsky.social !!
- "If movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live" - New Yorker article on cinema festival in Bologna. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- Wonderful discussion this morning on how artists and academics listen to the living world. Joanne Yao & Mali Weil artist collective. #Sensing the #Climate @ Le Serre Bologna Festival of Ecological Imagination UniBo & @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
- Reposted by ninahallMost American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- Italy: National strike in solidarity w/ Palestine today. The second national strike in2 wks. Thousands of Italians taking to the streets. Here's Bologna getting ready this morning.
- And it's happening!! #Sensing the #climate festival at Serramadre, Bologna. First event: workshop on the floods which hit Bologna last year. Full program here: serramadre.art
- In two wks I'll be Leiden University, speaking at the Hague campus Thurs Oct 16 (17.00 - 18.30). Please join! @unileiden.bsky.social @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- Today Sensing the Climate, Festival of Ecological Transition starts w/ a film 🌳 "Il codice del Bosco" 🌳 Join us!! @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social serramadre.art/evento/il-co...
- Salvini's big project is to build a bridge from mainland Italy to Messina, Sicilia. Fascinating pamphlet arguing why: so domestic animals can more easily cross the straits!! This bridge is problematic for many rsns (costs, environmental, earthquake). @fgenovese.bsky.social
- Ocean acidification Planetary boundary now breached :( www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
- Wonderful interview w/ Robert MacFarlane on his latest book, "Is A River Alive?". He visits rivers in Ecuador (which has recognised rights of nature in its constitution), Chennai, and Canada. Powerful writing, and by the end rivers become a verb, not a noun. open.spotify.com/episode/7kr4...
- Thrilled to be co-hosting the "Sensing the Climate" festival next week in Bologna. Please join us!! Wonderful line up of artists, musicians, performers, & films. Hosted in glasshouses in public gardens: Giardini Margherita. serramadre.art/produzioni/f...
- How did pulling out of the Paris Agreement become a mainstream idea? Support a neat podcast research project in NZ. @ralph9.bsky.social www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...
- Thousands on the streets of Bologna for Palestine solidarity march. Even the cinema is closed for national strike.
- National strike for Palestine today in Italy. Large demonstrations in Bologna. Schools closed, public transport reduced. Italian govt has not (yet) officially recognised Palestine. en.ilsole24ore.com/art/today-ge...
- Some good global governance news for once: international treaty for #biodiversity in "high seas" (areas beyond national jurisdiction) comes into force! Morocco, 60th state, just ratified it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Bologna turns on its magic to welcome incoming class @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social 2025!
- Excited for the new podcast "Power and Purpose" hosted by @nathalietocci.bsky.social & Amanda Sloat. sais.jhu.edu/news-press/p... Stokes to have Natalie as new colleague @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Bologna! @christinecheng.bsky.social @emilyjones.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social
- In midst of Kirk commentary: am curious about claim that he set-up Turning Point USA as a conservative response to "MoveOn.org" See obituaries in Irish Times & Times www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
- I have written on this "Copycat" behaviour: where (extreme) right copies models of organizing from the left which they see as successful (and therefore threatening). See JITP article w/ Michael Vaughan and Annett Heft doi.org/10.1080/1933...
