Lecture
LUCIR Seminar: The Far Right and Global Environmental Politics
- Date
- Thursday 16 October 2025
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 3.60
About this seminar
The electoral success of far-right parties appears to threaten many international environmental organizations. These parties question the legitimacy of international institutions and are more likely to be climate sceptics. Yet not all far-right parties once in government reject multilateral climate cooperation. In fact, many have expressed desires to tackle climate change, including Fratelli d’Italia (Italy), Fidesz (Hungary), and Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (India). This seminar investigates variation in far-right governments engagement in global environmental politics. It explores: when and why do countries led by far-right parties engage in, versus withdraw from, international environmental organizations and agreements? And how do they shape international environmental agreements? It examines the US, Italy, Brazil, and India under far-right governments, and across three different regimes: climate change, biodiversity and desertification. It finds that most far-right governments engage in global environmental politics, rather than withdrawing, but do so in a myriad of obstructionist ways.
About Nina Hall
Nina Hall is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Nina holds a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a Master’s Degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was previously a Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance, a Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently a Faculty Affiliate at the SNF Agora Institute and the co-founder of an independent think tank, Te Kuaka (formerly New Zealand Alternative).