Thomas Hale
Thomas Hale
Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Policy)
Dr Thomas Hale’s 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, economic and health 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, Dr 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). Dr Hale leads the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and co-leads the Net Zero Tracker.
Recent publications
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Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero
Journal article
Hale T. et al, (2024), Nature Climate Change, 14, 306 - 308
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Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time
Book
Hale T., (2024), 1 - 244
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The net zero wave: identifying patterns in the uptake and robustness of national and corporate net zero targets 2015–2023
Journal article
Green JF. et al, (2024), Climate Policy
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The power of the “weak” and international organizations
Journal article
Snidal D. et al, (2024), Review of International Organizations
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Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium
Journal article
Shaw D. et al, (2023), The Lancet Digital Health, 5, e582 - e593