Rodney Bruce Hall


Rodney Bruce Hall is an American Professor of International Relations and among those scholars known as Second Generation Constructivists. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in physics and subsequently a master's degree in international relations and a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Friedrich Kratochwil, one of the founding scholars of constructivism in international relations.

History

Hall taught for two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations Theory at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and for four years at the University of Iowa. He migrated to Britain as University Lecturer in International Political Economy in 2003. He was tenured in that position and taught at Oxford for ten years from 2003 to 2013. At Oxford Hall served as Academic Director of the Oxford University Foreign Service Programme as a member of the Faculty of Oxford's Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House. There he developed the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. He was the founding Course Director of the MSc GGD and directed or taught on the course from 2006 to 2013. In 2013 he left Oxford University for a professorial position as Professor of International Relations at the University of Macau, Macau, China.. He has served on the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly and Oxford Development Studies. He has contributed to the literature on constructivism in international relations across sub-disciplines with books and articles covering the sub-disciplines of security studies, international organization / global governance, international political economy and debates within international relations theory.

Books

Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance
With Oliver Kessler, Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas Onuf, On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs
Central Banking as Global Governance: Constructing Financial Credibility
With Thomas J. Biersteker The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance :
National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems

Articles

”Intersubjective Expectations and Performativity in Global Financial Governance” International Political Sociology 3 : 453-457.
“The New Alliance Between the Mob and Capital ” St Antony’s International Review 5 : 11-26.
“Social Money, Central Banking and Constitutive Rules of the International Monetary System”, Revista da Procuradoria-Geral do Banco Central Brasil 2 : 15-56.
“Explaining ‘Market Authority’ and Liberal Stability: Toward a Sociological-Constructivist Synthesis” Global Society 21 : 319-345.
“Human Nature as Behavior and Action in Economics and International Relations Theory” Journal of International Relations and Development 9 : 269-287.
“Private Authority: Non-State Actors and Global Governance” Harvard International Review : 66-70.
Hall, Rodney Bruce, “The Discursive Demolition of the Asian Development Model” International Studies Quarterly 47 : 71-99
With Thomas J. Biersteker,“Gouvernement privé dans le système international” in L’Economie politique N. 11, Quatrième Trimestre : 5-18
“Constructing Collective Identity Discursively: Applications of the “Self/Other” Nexus in International Relations” International Studies Review 3 : 101-111.
With Thomas J. Biersteker, “L’emergence des autorites privees” Alternative Economiques 17 : 17-19.
“Nationalism, War and Security” in Alexander J. Motyl Encyclopedia of Nationalism pp. 869–882.
“Territorial and National Sovereigns: Sovereign Identity and Consequences for Security Policy” Security Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 145–97.
"Moral Authority as a Power Resource", International Organization, Vol. 51, No. 4., 1997, pp. 591–622.
With Friedrich V. Kratochwil, "Medieval Tales: Neorealist 'Science' and the Abuse of History", International Organization, Vol. 47, No. 3. 1993, pp. 479–91.

Other works

“NGO Governance and Armed Violence” in Rodney Bruce Hall Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance : 1-13.
With Christopher Marc Lilyblad, “Private Authority, Sociological Legitimacy and NGO Governance” in Rodney Bruce Hall Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance : 75-93.
With Christopher Marc Lilyblad, “Prospects and Challenges for NGO Governance” in Rodney Bruce Hall Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance : 235-240.
“Constructivism” in Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson International Organization and Global Governance : 144-156.
“‘Trust me, I promise!’: Kratochwil's Contributions towards the Explanation of the Structure of Normative Social Relations” in Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall, Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas Onuf, On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs : 60-73.
With Oliver Kessler, Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas Onuf, “On Rules: Introduction” in Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall, Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas Onuf, On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs : 1-19.
“International Institutions: Responses to Transformations in Social Identity” in The Dynamics of Global Society: Theory and Prospects, Marui Yoshinori, Anno Tadashi, and David Wank Chapter published in the Japanese language.
“International Institutional Responses to Transformations in Social Identity: Liberal Globalization and the Re-Construction of Community” AGLOS News 5 : 34-41.
With Thomas J. Biersteker. “The Emergence of Private Authority in the International System” in Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance : 3-22
With Thomas J. Biersteker “Private Authority as Global Governance” in Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance : 203-222.
“The Socially Constructed Contexts of Comparative Politics” in Daniel M. Green, Constructivist Comparative Politics: Theoretical Issues and Case Studies : 121-48.
“Territorial and National Sovereigns: Sovereign Identity and Consequences for Security Policy” in Glenn Chafetz, Michael Spirtas and Benjamin Frankel The Origins of National Interests : 145-97..
"Collective Identity and Epochal Change in the International System," in Y. Yamamoto Globalism, Regionalism, and Nationalism, : 45-69.
“shugo-teki aidentiti to kokusai shisutemu no daitenkan” or “Collective Identity and Epochal Change in the International System” in Japanese Association for International Relations 21 seiki no nihon, ajia, sekai or Japan, Asia and Global System: Toward the Twenty-First Century pp. 159–93.