Hall Gardner is an international relations theorist, editorialist, TV commentator, poet and novelist. His many books on global politics, including Toward an Alternative Transatlantic Strategy (2021) in French and English; IR Theory, Historical Analogy and Major Power War (2019); Crimea, Global Rivalry and the Vengeance of History (2015); NATO Expansion and the U.S. Strategy in Asia (2013); and American Global Strategy and the “War on Terrorism” (2005), blend a historical and theoretical approach with contemporary international affairs, concentrating on questions involving NATO and European Union enlargement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impact upon China and Eurasia in general, as well as the global ramifications of the “war on terrorism.”
His book World War Trump (2018) forewarned of Trump’s January 6, 2021 coup attempt. His book, The Failure to Prevent World War I, explored the causes of the so-called “War to End all Wars” form the French perspective. His first books, Surviving the Millennium (1994) and Dangerous Crossroads (1997) both forewarned of a dangerous Russian backlash, war with Ukraine, and the possibility of major power war if the U.S., NATO, and the European Union could not implement a new system of European Security that incorporated Russian security concerns. His later books Averting Global War (2007) outlined a strategy to prevent major power war, as have World War Trump and Toward an Alternative Transatlantic Strategy.
His editorials have appeared in the L.A. Times, The Hill, Other News, Open Democracy, among many others. He has been interviewed by Japanese Public Television (NHK): Global Debate Wisdom; Associated Press (AP), FRANCE 24, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Radio France International (RFI), Bloomberg News, RFO “Toutes les France,” Voice of Russia, Russia Today, VOA-China, VOA-Iran, C-NBC TV News, BBC World News (radio), MacClean’s (Canada), Izvestia, O Globo (Brazil), Agence France Press, and EuroNews, among others.
Gardner’s poems have been published in numerous anthologies, such as The Peace or Perish Crisis Anthology, Fire Readings, and the Paris Atlantic. His poem Vincent’s Room, and its translation into French, was chosen for National Translation Month (September 2021). His book of poems, The Wake-Up Blast (2008), represents 30 years of poetic protest. His first novel, Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors — that explores the social and geopolitical transformations taking place in China and the world at the time of the Chinese democracy and freedom movement in the Spring 1989 — is to be published in late January 2023.
Hall Gardner just published in The National Interest--
“Pandemic Pressure: The Coronavirus Is Antagonizing America’s Relationships” The National Interest (June 1, 2020), https://nationalinterest.org/feature/pandemic-pressure-coronavirus-antagonizing-america%E2%80%99s-relationships-159431 (the article will be published in French shortly
Recent Essays and Poetry: https://wsimag.com/authors/701-hall-gardner
Hall Gardner's latest book, Crimea, Global Rivalry, and the Vengeance of History has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Hall Gardner's book, The Failure to Prevent World War I: The Unexpected Armageddon was just published by Ashgate.
In September 2014, Hall Gardner engaged in Track II Diplomacy in Glion, Switzerland; discussions, involving government officials and academics from China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US, were organized by the Geneva Center for Security Policy.
His interview on conflict in the Far East appeared on the GCSP website.
In September, Gardner likewise participated in the New Policy Forum in combination the EPIC Congress, where he spoke on crisis in US-European-Russian relations.
In October, he took AUP students to Corsica where they met with the Mayor of Bastia, Gilles Simeoni, among other Corsican political leaders, in addition to hearing a lecture at the University of Corsica Pascal Paoli on Corsican nationalism and the quest for autonomy.
In November, he took AUP students to Washington DC where students visited differing think tanks, including Brookings, The Cato Institute, CSIS, Institute for Communitarian Studies, Institute for Policy Studies, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, among many other activities. Students heard Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski speak on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, among other major American officials and foreign policy experts. They also met with Susan Eisenhower at the Eisenhower Institute in DC.
Gardner was also invited by Mikhail Gorbachev to speak with the New Policy Forum in Berlin on the 25th annivesary of the razing of the Berlin Wall. As he could not speak in Berlin due to the prescheduled AUP study trip to think tanks in Washington DC, he wrote the following commentary.
In late December, he was interviewed by Associated Press, RT, and Bloomberg on French domestic politics. He was also interviewed by Japanese public TV, NHK, on the show Global Wisdom: “A Tumultuous 2014: Seeking for a New World Order”. The rest of the Global Wisdom interviews are available here and here.
In January he was interviewed by Bloomberg TV, BBC radio (twice), Al Jazeera Arabic (top of the news, twice) and RT on the Charlie Hebdo assassinations.
Based on his book, The Failure to Prevent World War I: The Unexpected Armageddon (Ashgate 2015) Gardner has published a number of blogs on the origins of World War I on the website of the World Association of International Studies (WAIS). These include:
In addition, Gardner has made a number of comments on NATO on the WAIS website.
Civic Media Lab Grant (Fall 2020) to develop new course and write the book: "The Digital Revolution: Tools of Terror, War, and the Eyes of Big Brother"