Ian Hall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3775993 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Hall |
| PRENOMES | Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Hall |
| ASSINATURA | HALL I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0397-2011 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 247 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Epidemiological and phylogenetic analyses of public Sars-CoV-2 data from Malawi
The COVID-19 pandemic has had varying impacts across different regions, necessitating localised data-driven responses. SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in a person in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and spread globally within three months. While there were similarities in the pandemic’s impact across regions, key differences motivated systematic quantitative analysis of diverse geographical data to inform responses. Malawi reported its first COVID-…
On Xi Jinping
Cost of Living
Interpretivism and the Analysis of India’s Foreign Policy
Scholars of India’s foreign policy generally prefer interpretive approaches and qualitative methods that explain actions in terms of the beliefs and theories of actors. Yet often, neither are well explained or justified. This article argues that more systematic engagement with recent work on interpretivism would generate better grounded analyses of India’s foreign policy. Using the case of the Jaishankar doctrine—the theory and practice of foreig…
India's China strategy after Galwan
Since mid-2020, following a deadly clash between Chinese and Indian troops on the Line of Actual Control, New Delhi has developed a new strategy for managing its northern neighbour. This article argues that one hitherto overlooked element of this strategy is the systematic soft balancing of China's power in a series of multilateral and minilateral groupings, including the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral, the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Or…
The unfinished quest
The Hindu Right and India's Religious Diplomacy
India is investing more in religious diplomacy, arguing that the world might learn lessons from that country’s extraordinary repository of philosophical and spiritual traditions. This diplomacy has an increasingly Hindu character, reflecting the present government’s conviction that India is essentially a Hindu civilization. This article examines the drivers of India’s contemporary religious diplomacy, its target audiences, its practitioners withi…
Philosophical issues in the English School of international relations
This article responds to Charlotta Friedner Parrat’s critique of our argument that the English School of international relations should embrace a more thoroughgoing interpretivism. We address four of Friedner Parrat’s objections to our argument: that our distinction between structuralism and interpretivism is too stark; that our understanding of the relationship between agency and structure is problematic; that our approach would confine the Engl…
Spies and lies
Over the past few years, Alex Joske has played a pivotal role in identifying China's instruments of political influence and covert interference in Australia. Working with colleagues at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and with the academic Clive Hamilton, he has shed light in particular on the activities of the United Front Work Department: the body that aims to co-opt or control Chinese diaspora communities in support of the Chinese Com…
Australia's security in China's shadow
For more than three decades, Australia's strategy towards China amounted to little more than what Euan Graham characterizes as ‘open-ended economic engagement’ (p. 26). This approach had advantages. It allowed Australia to position itself as one of China's leading suppliers of commodities (like coal and iron ore) and services (like education and tourism). The benefits were significant: corporate profits were boosted and economic recessions were a…
Agility and Sustainability
Background: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 triggered a chain of public health responses that radically changed our way of living and working. Non-healthcare sectors, such as the logistics sector, play a key role in such responses. This research aims to qualitatively evaluate the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented in the UK logistics sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We conducted nine semi-structured interviews in July-Au…
Epidemiological modelling in refugee and internally displaced people settlements
The spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 presents many challenges to healthcare systems and infrastructures across the world, exacerbating inequalities and leaving the world’s most vulnerable populations at risk. Epidemiological modelling is vital to guiding evidence-informed or data-driven decision making. In forced displacement contexts, and in particular refugee and internally displaced people (IDP) settlements, it meets several chal…
India’s foreign policy
India’s leaders have pursued a series of ambitious agendas in international relations, driven by a sense of national destiny and civilisational mission. This article explores these different agendas and the strategies they shaped, noting the underlying convictions that unite them: that India’s civilisational inheritance has lessons for the world, that India’s status is yet to be properly respected, and that New Delhi must strive for the highest l…
India’s Grand Strategy in East Asia in the Era of Covid-19
Since the election of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in May 2014, India’s approach to East Asia has changed, principally in response to pressures exerted by China. The Modi government inherited an East Asia strategy that combined a push for greater diplomatic and economic linkages with the region, an effort to improve Sino-Indian relations through a mix of engagement and deterrence, and a strengthening of security tie…
Introduction
Australia and India in the Modi era
India, the Rome Statute, and the International Criminal Court
Despite its long-standing rhetorical support for an international criminal justice regime, India continues to resist signing the 1998 Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court. This article explores the reasons for this reluctance. It observes that during the negotiations that led to the Rome Statute, India voiced multiple objections to the design of the ICC , to how it was to function, and to the crimes that it was to address. I…
Anit Mukherjee. 2020. The Absent Dialogue
India is widely—and rightly—recognised for being one of only a few postcolonial states that has avoided interference by its military in its politics. At one time or another, most have experienced some kind of intervention, coup d’état, or period of military rule. In India, there have been occasions when generals have overstepped the mark and there are present concerns about the politicisation of the armed forces, but it has been remarkably succes…
The English school and the classical approach
This article analyses the evolution of the English school’s approach to international relations from the work of the early British Committee in the late 1950s and early 1960s to its revival in the 1990s and afterwards. It argues that the school’s so-called ‘classical approach’ was shaped by the crisis of developmental historicism brought on by the First World War and by the reactions of historians like Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight to the …
Interpreting the English school
This article introduces the Special Issue on ‘Interpretivism and the English School of International Relations’. It distinguishes between what we term the interpretivist and structuralist wings of the school and argues that disagreement about its preferred approach to the study of international relations has generated confusion about what it stands for and weakened its capacity to respond to alternative approaches. It puts the case for a reconsid…
In Memoriam
We are greatly saddened to report the passing of one of our editorial board, Professor Aileen S. P. Baviera, who died in Manila on 21 March 2020, aged 60. She had contracted COVID-19 on a recent visit to Paris
Spying in South Asia
In early August 2024, as news spread of the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s long-time prime minister, so too did rumours that foreign intelligence agencies had played a role in her removal fr
China Crisis? Indian Strategy, Political Realism, and the Chinese Challenge
China's rise has provoked a substantial debate about its possible consequences for Indian security and its implications for Indian strategy. This review essay examines the parameters of this debate, concentrating especially on the rise of a new American-derived political realism in Indian thinking about China. It argues that in urging India to abandon its longstanding posture of strategic restraint, the new realists overestimate India's political…
Contest for the Indo–Pacific
In a little over a decade, the People’s Republic of China has been transformed from the factory of the world into something quite different. It has become markedly more ambitious and assertive, but also more prickly and prone to take offence. It has ceased to be a rule-taker and grown adept at using various instruments, including international institutions, to further its interests. It is looking to reshape its immediate periphery and areas far b…
Globalism before globalisation
The Emergence of Globalism is all that the best intellectual history should be: erudite, thoughtful, compelling, and based on an impressive range of sources. It deals sympathetically with its subjects, from English economists like Barbara Wootton to American political scientists like Charles E. Merriam, and especially with the exiled and displaced, including the Italian thinker Giuseppe Antonio Borgese and the French Catholic philosopher Jacques …
Introduction
This special issue collects together a series of essays that investigate the analytical possibilities offered to the study of British foreign policy by the interpretive approach to political science and international relations.The interpretive approach concentrates on the beliefs of various policy actors, the meanings of their actions, and, crucially, explains the beliefs by locating them in historical traditions and as responses to dilemmas.It h…
Multialignment and Indian Foreign Policy under Narendra Modi
This article examines India’s emerging approach to foreign policy: multialignment. It argues that since the mid-2000s India has developed multialignment as a means of achieving what it perceives as its core interests and ideals in international relations. Characterised by an emphasis on engagement in regional multilateral institutions, the use of strategic partnerships, and what is termed ‘normative hedging’, multialignment is being utilised to b…
The Struggle for Soft Power in Asia
Throughout Asia, states are competing to build and leverage soft power using public diplomacy. This article examines these investments, whether they pay dividends, and why they are being made. A mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis shows little, if any, positive correlation between public diplomacy by Asian states and foreign public opinion. We therefore ask why states invest in public diplomacy when it does not seem to work. We argue tha…
Expressions of fertility in the rock art of Bantu-speaking agriculturists
A perfect match? Pupils’ and teachers’ views of the impact of matching educators and learners by gender
British government policy on teacher recruitment gives a high priority to increasing the number of male teachers, particularly in primary schools. This focus stems from concern to challenge ‘boys’ underachievement’: policy‐makers believe that ‘matching’ teachers and pupils by gender will improve boys’ engagement with school. Yet there is little evidence to support such assumptions which, as this article notes, are predicated on out‐dated theories…
Parent participation in social work meetings - the case of child protection conferences
This paper is about parent participation in cases where children are involved in a child protection process in the UK. It concentrates on the child protection conference as a site at which the participation of the client and decision-making by professionals are balanced with one another. Unlike previous research, which has been concerned with asking participants their reactions and views using research interviews, the focus here will be on the ve…
Traditions of British International Thought
The utility of traditions to intellectual historians has been questioned in recent years by scholars who believe that the use of the concept can lead to anachronism or worse. This article argues that traditions play a crucial explanatory role for historians of international thought and must play a part in explanations of what thinkers believed and how their thought evolved. It begins by reviewing the literature on the revival of intellectual hist…
The Triumph of Anti-liberalism? Reconciling Radicalism to Realism in International Relations Theory
One of the most significant developments in international relations theory in the past decade has been the reconciliation of radical post-positivist theorists to realism. This article examines the causes and consequences of that reconciliation. It argues that while advances in the history of international thought have prompted substantive re-evaluations of the work of past realist thinkers, including that of Carl Schmitt and Hans J. Morgenthau, t…
Is a ‘Modi doctrine’ emerging in Indian foreign policy
Narendra Modi's election as India's prime minister in May 2014 has generated speculation that a new ‘Modi doctrine’ is emerging in Indian foreign policy. This article assesses the evidence for that claim. It argues that a ‘doctrine’ should embody a set of clearly stated principles for foreign policy making. It analyses the main achievements of Modi's policy in the months after his election. It finds that while Modi has brought new energy to the c…
The Promise and Perils of Interpretivism in Australian International Relations
Australian International Relations (IR) was once a hybrid of American and European styles of political science, but today it is dominated by a British‐inspired post‐positivism which has its virtues – and its vices – and which utilises various interpretive and semi‐interpretive approaches. This paper welcomes the ‘interpretive turn’ in Australian IR, but recognises its weaknesses, and argues that, to overcome them, interpretivists must be clear ab…
A `Shallow Piece of Naughtiness
George Orwell's concern for political language and political morality has long been recognised, but his thought on `political realism' has not received the attention that it deserves, especially from scholars of International Relations. This article examines his treatment of realism in his journalism of the 1940s and in his last novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It argues that although Orwell's account, assembled from his study of the political discou…
Our time has come
Long touted as an emerging power, Alyssa Ayres argues that India has now arrived as ‘a consequential global actor’ (p. 9). What it does and how it acts have significant effects on the Indo-Pacific region and the wider world. It is thus imperative, Ayres thinks, that we look more closely at the ambitions of both New Delhi and the Indian public, and how these might translate into a bigger role for India. Our time has come is therefore not a convent…
Tilting at Windmills? The Indian Debate over the Responsibility to Protect after UNSC Resolution 1973
India voted for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970, but abstained from Resolution 1973 authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya, subsequently criticizing the NATO campaign. This stance provoked much comment within India and among foreign commentators on Indian foreign policy. Some praised it as morally superior to approving military action, which was portrayed by some as Western ‘neo-colonialism’. Others, however, were critical of India’…
Gender ‘matters’ in the primary classroom
A recent project involving Year 3 (seven–eight year‐old) pupils and their teachers revealed that ‘gender matters’ differently to boys and girls, and teachers. The study sought to elicit whether pupils and their teachers felt the gender of a teacher mattered to their experiences of schooling. Pupils were concerned about how effective teachers were in carrying out their professional functions and a teacher's gender was subsumed within this. For the…
Interpreting the English school
This article introduces the Special Issue on ‘Interpretivism and the English School of International Relations’. It distinguishes between what we term the interpretivist and structuralist wings of the school and argues that disagreement about its preferred approach to the study of international relations has generated confusion about what it stands for and weakened its capacity to respond to alternative approaches. It puts the case for a reconsid…
Asian Strategic Partnerships
This article examines the use of strategic partnerships by Asian states as a means of enhancing national and regional security, as well as advancing economic and other objectives. It argues that strategic partnerships are best conceived as a new practice that signals the emergence of new forms of “security governance” in the region. It observes, however, that whereas early strategic partnerships were based on substantive shared agreement on “syst…
Martin Wight, Western Values, and the Whig Tradition of International Thought
Martin Wight is often regarded as a disengaged historian of international thought who avoided commentary on contemporary events and shunned opportunities to contribute to discussion over policy. This article argues that this interpretation is mistaken. It argues instead that Wight was deeply concerned with the practice of international relations, as well as the theory, and sought repeatedly to find and use different means to influence British for…
Building the Global Network?’ The Reform of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office under New Labour
From 1997 onwards the FCO was reshaped by New Labour. The removal of responsibility for overseas aid to a new Department of International Development (DFID) was perhaps the most dramatic change. Successive cuts to the FCO budget and the progressive centralization of foreign-policy decision-making in Number 10 also had their effects, as did a series of government-directed reforms to recruitment practices. In an effort to make it more accountable t…
India's New Public Diplomacy
Over the past decade, India has invested significant resources in public diplomacy, using traditional and new approaches to build and leverage its soft power. This article examines the reasons for this investment, the various forms of public diplomacy India employs, and the effectiveness of its efforts to shape public opinion. It finds that Indian investment in public diplomacy is partly a response to concerns about the perceived growth of Chines…
Indian Foreign Policy under Modi
This forum comes from a 2016 panel at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. The forum participants offered midterm assessments of the foreign policy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This forum considers whether Modi heralded in a new era in Indian foreign policy, or whether Modi's policies just repackaged older policies. The authors in this forum answer these questions by focusing on a range of issues from the role o…
Narendra Modi and India's normative power
Periodically, India has sought to act as a ‘normative power’ in international affairs, advancing a normative agenda about how states and other actors ought to behave, what norms and rules should regulate their interactions, and what institutions should exist to make and enforce them. The rise to power of Narendra Modi, who became India's prime minister in May 2014, with a declared aspiration to once more make India a vishwaguru (‘world guru’) and…
The Right that failed? The ambiguities of conservative thought and the dilemmas of conservative practice in international affairs
This article seeks to assess the dilemmas and ambiguities of contemporary Anglo-American conservative thought and practice in international affairs. It bases its discussion in an understanding of conservative thought as a philosophy of imperfection but points out that there is a dominant way in which this has been understood in the last two hundred years but a rather different sensibility as well. It then argues that the dominant sensibility has …
History, Christianity and diplomacy
Sir Herbert Butterfield, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1955–68), Regius Professor of History (1963–68), and author of The Whig Interpretation of History (1931), was one of the leading historians of the twentieth century. A diplomatic historian and student of modern historiography, Butterfield was deeply concerned too with contemporary international relations, wrote much on the subject and, in 1958, created the ‘British Committee on the Theory …
Post-conflict justice in divided democracies
Official figures claim that almost 3000 people were killed, and many more injured or displaced, in four days of rioting aimed at the Sikh population of Delhi in late October and early November 1984 following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. This article analyses the efforts made to address the human rights violations that occurred. It argues that as a divided democracy, India has struggled to do justice to the victims, despite multiple commiss…
The satiric vision of politics
In The Tragic Vision of Politics (Lebow, 2003), Richard Ned Lebow argues that a ‘tragic understanding of the political’ provides the best ontological and epistemological foundations for a theory of International Relations. This article challenges that claim. It argues that other literary modes of representing social life can offer equally strong bases for international theories. To that end, it examines the ‘satirical vision of politics’ with ref…
"The Proud "African
Expressions of fertility in the rock art of Bantu-speaking agriculturists
Parent participation in social work meetings - the case of child protection conferences
This paper is about parent participation in cases where children are involved in a child protection process in the UK. It concentrates on the child protection conference as a site at which the participation of the client and decision-making by professionals are balanced with one another. Unlike previous research, which has been concerned with asking participants their reactions and views using research interviews, the focus here will be on the ve…
Still the English patient? Closures and inventions in the English school
Books reviewed in this article: Barry Buzan and Richard Little, International systems in world history: remaking the study of International Tim Dunne, Inventing international society: a history of the English school V, The global covenant: human conduct in a world of states Maurice Keens-Soper, Europe in the world: the persistence of power politics
History, Christianity and diplomacy
Sir Herbert Butterfield, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1955–68), Regius Professor of History (1963–68), and author of The Whig Interpretation of History (1931), was one of the leading historians of the twentieth century. A diplomatic historian and student of modern historiography, Butterfield was deeply concerned too with contemporary international relations, wrote much on the subject and, in 1958, created the ‘British Committee on the Theory …
Challenge and Response
The friendship between Arnold J. Toynbee and Martin Wight is often noted but rarely fully explored. This article examines their personal and intellectual relationship and assesses the influence of Toynbee's work on Wight's thought, with particular concentration on their views of the past and historical method. It argues that Toynbee offered a `challenge' to which much of Wight's work may be considered a `response', some of it critical, and some o…
The Return to Limited War
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Patient attitudes to clinical trials
Objective To develop a questionnaire to assess patients’ views of clinical trials, and to report the results from the questionnaire in two patient groups: asthma and cancer. Design A 43 item questionnaire asking patients about their views to clinical trials was developed on the basis of interviews with trialists and focus groups with patients. The questionnaire was mailed to patients with a diagnosis of either asthma or cancer. A set of items was…
The Art and Practice of a Diplomatic Historian
Power Politics and Appeasement
It has been argued that the failure of ‘realist’ international thought to take root in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War, as it did in the United States, was a function of declining power. This article challenges this view, suggesting instead that for the British, the term ‘realism’ had been discredited, in the late 1930s, by its associations with appeasement and the ‘power politics' of the dictators. Examining the international th…
The Right that failed? The ambiguities of conservative thought and the dilemmas of conservative practice in international affairs
This article seeks to assess the dilemmas and ambiguities of contemporary Anglo-American conservative thought and practice in international affairs. It bases its discussion in an understanding of conservative thought as a philosophy of imperfection but points out that there is a dominant way in which this has been understood in the last two hundred years but a rather different sensibility as well. It then argues that the dominant sensibility has …
World government and empire
International history and International Relations have long been held separate, partly by misunderstanding and partly by mistrust. Three recent books, Marc Trachtenberg's Craft of international history, Paul Kennedy's The parliament of man and Niall Ferguson's The war of the world, suggest that the divide between history and theory is not as severe as it sometimes appears. This review article examines, through the histories of Kennedy and Ferguso…
The Imperial Paradox in Liberal International Theory
A `Shallow Piece of Naughtiness
George Orwell's concern for political language and political morality has long been recognised, but his thought on `political realism' has not received the attention that it deserves, especially from scholars of International Relations. This article examines his treatment of realism in his journalism of the 1940s and in his last novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It argues that although Orwell's account, assembled from his study of the political discou…
A perfect match? Pupils’ and teachers’ views of the impact of matching educators and learners by gender
British government policy on teacher recruitment gives a high priority to increasing the number of male teachers, particularly in primary schools. This focus stems from concern to challenge ‘boys’ underachievement’: policy‐makers believe that ‘matching’ teachers and pupils by gender will improve boys’ engagement with school. Yet there is little evidence to support such assumptions which, as this article notes, are predicated on out‐dated theories…
From Policy to Practice
A central element of the Every Child Matters reforms in England are measures which aim at improving information sharing. Amongst these are the children’s database and the Common Assessment Framework, both representing technological solutions to long‐standing concerns about information sharing in child welfare. This article reports some findings from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)‐funded study which examined their introduction and …
What Causes What
Causation in International Relations: Reclaiming Causal Analysis. By Milja Kurki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 310 pp., $34.99 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-70950-7). Theorists of international relations have traditionally had two concerns: explaining (or, if reflectivists, just understanding) how international politics work and assessing methods by which they can be better explained in the future. In the past 20 years, however, t…
Gender ‘matters’ in the primary classroom
A recent project involving Year 3 (seven–eight year‐old) pupils and their teachers revealed that ‘gender matters’ differently to boys and girls, and teachers. The study sought to elicit whether pupils and their teachers felt the gender of a teacher mattered to their experiences of schooling. Pupils were concerned about how effective teachers were in carrying out their professional functions and a teacher's gender was subsumed within this. For the…
The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare
Hall C, Slembrouck S, Haigh E, Lee A. The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 348–357 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This article examines the ways in which child welfare professionals negotiate their roles and those of other professionals in home visits with clients, in this case the parents of yo…
The other exception? India as a rising power
The transformation of diplomacy
There has lately been a resurgence of interest in the art of diplomacy, fuelled by the growing popularity of the idea of 'soft power'. This article reviews three works key to this revival, all of which argue that a transformed and revitalized diplomacy can and should play a positive role in international politics. One calls for diplomats to overcome their traditional reserve and become 'guerrillas' fighting for a human security, peace and develop…
The Revolt against the West
It has been suggested that British intellectuals were either indifferent to decolonisation or sought to downplay its impact. As a consequence, historians of international thought have overlooked the extensive debates that occurred among scholars and intellectuals concerned with British foreign policy and international relations. This article addresses those debates, examining the responses of internationalist, Whig, realist, and radical thinkers …
The Coalition and the UK Housing Market
With its origins in the collapse of the US sub-prime market, the global financial crisis might more accurately be termed a global housing crisis. Over the last decade, most developed countries experienced house price inflation; however few matched the UK, whose boom started earlier and was more sustained. A taxpayer-led recovery stopped a UK price correction in its tracks; however it will be argued that these measures only delayed momentum toward…
The Triumph of Anti-liberalism? Reconciling Radicalism to Realism in International Relations Theory
One of the most significant developments in international relations theory in the past decade has been the reconciliation of radical post-positivist theorists to realism. This article examines the causes and consequences of that reconciliation. It argues that while advances in the history of international thought have prompted substantive re-evaluations of the work of past realist thinkers, including that of Carl Schmitt and Hans J. Morgenthau, t…
Building bridges
This article explores challenges in ensuring effective student transition from school or college to university. It examines the complex liaison needed for students to progress to appropriate courses, settle into university life and succeed as higher education learners. Secondary data (international literature on transition and the formation of learner identity) are analysed to identify underpinning concepts. Primary data are taken from two studie…
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