Professor
Todd Hall
Tutor in Politics and Associate Professor in International Relations
Email: todd.hall@politics.ox.ac.uk
Academic background
Prof Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Prof Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013).
Teaching
Undergraduate Tutorials:
214 International Relations
212 International Relations in the Era of Two World Wars
213 International Relations in the Era of the Cold War
297 Special Subject in Politics: International Security and Conflict
Graduate Teaching:
International Relations Core (MPhil IR)
International Relations of East Asia
Research interests
Theorizing the role of emotions and affect in international politics.
The international relations of East Asia, with a specific focus on the foreign policy of China.
Recent Publications
Books
- Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, Cornell University Press, 2015.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
- More Significance than Value: Explaining Developments in the Sino-Japanese Contest Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, Texas National Security Review, (forthcoming, early view available)
- Rethinking Affective Experience and Popular Emotion: World War I and the Construction of Group Emotion in International Relations, (co-authored with Andrew Ross of Ohio University), Political Psychology, (forthcoming, early view available).
- Three Approaches to Emotion and Affect in the Aftermath of the Zhuhai Incident, International Studies Review, 19(3):487-491.
- One Thing Leads to Another: Making Sense of East Asia’s Repeated Tensions, (co-authored with Ja Ian Chong of National University of Singapore), Asian Security, 13(1): 20-40.
- On Provocation: Outrage, International Relations, and the Franco-Prussian War, Security Studies, 26(1): 1-29.
Other
- Why the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Are Like a Toothpaste Tube, War on the Rocks, 4 September 2019 (web publication).
- Can a State Have an Emotion? MunPlanet, 27 May 2016 (web publication).
- Podcast: Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, University of Oxford Podcasts, 12 April 2016
- China, Soft Power, and the Politics of Attraction, The China Policy Institute Blog, 3 March 2016 (web publication).
- When States Act Emotionally: Professor Todd Hall Answers Questions on His New Book, OxPol: The Oxford University Politics Blog, 5 November 2015 (web publication).