Todd H. Hall

PhD University of Chicago

Academic Staff

Professor of International Relations, DPIR

Tutorial Fellow in Politics, St Anne's College

Director, University of Oxford China Centre

AFFILIATION

CIS

International Relations Network

College

St Anne's College

Students

website

Todd H Hall's Academia webpage

todd.hall@politics.ox.ac.uk

Office address

The China Centre, Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Rd, Oxford, OX2 6LU

Professor 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, Professor Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013). Research interests extend to the areas of international relations theory; the intersection of emotion, affect, and foreign policy; and Chinese foreign policy. Recent publications include articles in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Political Psychology, Political Science Quarterly, and Security Studies. Professor Hall has also published a book with Cornell University Press, titled Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage, which was recently named co-recipient of the International Studies Association's 2016 Diplomatic Studies Section Book Award.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto (2010-2013)

Postdoctoral Fellow, China and the World Program, Princeton University (2009-2010)

Postdoctoral Fellow, China and the World Program, Harvard University (2008-2009)

Research

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.

Teaching

Undergraduate Tutorial Provision

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

Publications

Journal Articles

2022

Hall, T. (2022) “Angela Poh, Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics: Rhetoric and Restraint in China’s Diplomacy (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), 372p. $134.66”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 27(2), pp. 427–429.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-021-09784-x

2019

Hall, T. (2019) “Xiaoyu Pu, ed., Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 24(4), pp. 715–716.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-019-09636-9

HALL, T. and ROSS, A. (2019) “Re-thinking Affective Experience and Popular Emotion: World War I and the Construction of Group Emotion in International Relations”, Political Psychology [Preprint].

2017

Hall, T. (2017) “Three Approaches to Emotion and Affect in the Aftermath of the Zhuhai Incident”, International Studies Review [Preprint].

Koschut, S. (2017) “DISCOURSE AND EMOTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS”, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, 19(3), pp. 481–508.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/vix033

2016

Hall, T. (2016) “National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy. By Steve A. Yetiv. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 168p. $24.95”., Perspectives on Politics, 14(1), pp. 291–292.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592715004326

2015

Hall, T. (2015) “Back to the Future Trenches?”, International Studies Review, 17(4), pp. 716–718.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12266

Hall, T. and Ross, A. (2015) “Affective Politics after 9/11”, International Organization, pp. 1–33.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818315000144

2014

Hall, T. and Chong, J. (2014) “反复性紧张局势的后果研究[Researching the Consequences of Repeated Tensions]”, 世界经济与政治 [World Economics and Politics, Beijing China], 2014(9), pp. 40–56.

Chong, J. and Hall, T. (2014) “The Lessons of 1914 for East Asia Today Missing the Trees for the Forest”, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, 39(1), p. 7 - +.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_a_00165

Krolikowski, A. and HALL, T. (no date) “Non-Decision Decisions in the Huawei 5G Dilemma: Policy in Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany”, Japanese Journal of Political Science [Preprint].

HALL, T. (no date) “A Sino-Japanese Contest with Three Dimensions: The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute Since the 2010 Collision Incident”, Texas National Security Review [Preprint].

Krolikowski, A. and HALL, T. (no date) “Making Sense of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Xi Show, International Partycraft, Hierarchy Light, or More? A Review Essay”, International Studies Review [Preprint].

HALL, T. (no date) “Dispute Inflation”, European Journal of International Relations [Preprint].

HALL, T. and Gustaffson, K. (no date) “The Politics of Emotions in International Relations: Who gets to feel what, whose emotions matter, and the ‘history problem’ in Sino-Japanese relations”, International Studies Quarterly [Preprint].

Hall, T. and Chong, J. (no date) “One Thing Leads to Another: Making Sense of East Asia’s Repeated Tensions”, Asian Security [Preprint].

Hall, T. (no date) “On Provocation: Outrage, International Relations, and the Franco-Prussian War”, Security Studies [Preprint].