As a part of its International Relations / Political Science Colloquium Series, the Department of Political Science/International Relations is pleased to invite you to a talk by Professor Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government ). He will give a presentation entitled

Assessing Five Years of Climate Action Summits and Initiatives: Outcomes and Determinants of Effectiveness

Due to current circumstances, the event will be held online. You can follow the talk by joining the zoom meeting.

• Zoom-link: https://zoom.us/j/774789935?pwd=Z1FXSmlBKytiZ1JEMU5oR293Y0ZwZz09
• Meeting-ID: 774 789 935
• Password: 801428

Dr. Thomas Hale is  Associate Professor in Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government; Fellow of St Antony's College.

His research explores how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly. He seeks to explain how political institutions evolve – or not – to face the challenges raised by globalisation and interdependence, with a particular emphasis on environmental and economic issues. He holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, a master's degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, and an AB in public policy from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. A US national, Hale has studied and worked in Argentina, China and Europe. His books include Beyond Gridlock (Polity 2017), Between Interests and Law: The Politics of Transnational Commercial Disputes (Cambridge 2015), Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge 2014), and Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing when We Need It Most (Polity 2013).