Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era

Nina Hall is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Europe). She previously worked as a Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance, where she published her first book Displacement, Development, and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates? (Routledge, 2016). She holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford and is the co-founder of an independent and progressive think tank, New Zealand Alternative. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute (the German Internet Institute) and a Faculty Affiliate at the SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University.

• 1: Introduction2: The Power of Digital Advocacy Organizations3: The Global Growth of Digital Advocacy Organizations4: Campaigning5: The Purposes of a Transnational Network6: Trends in Transnational Campaigning: Issues, Targets, and Partners7: Mobilizing for Climate Action8: Staff or Member-Driven?9: ConclusionAppendixReferences

The book reminds scholars of transnational advocacy that new forms of activism regularly challenge the dominance of traditional groups established well before the internet age.