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Portrait of Eva Maria Nag
Senior Fellow · Public Policy

Dr Eva Maria Nag

Eva Maria Nag is Executive Editor of the journal Global Policy and Acting Co-Director of the Global Policy Institute at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University.

Her research covers comparative political theory, theories of democracy and violence in South Asia, the ideational implications of multipolarity in the international system, climate governance in the developing world and critical interpretations of the Anthropocene. Her publications include Climate Governance in the Developing World (Polity, 2013), edited with David Held and Charles Roger, and recent work on the diffusion of authority in global governance and on rights of nature in global environmental governance. She has worked on Global Policy since its launch in 2010, when she co-signed the journal's founding editorial statement with David Held and Patrick Dunleavy, and was earlier its Executive Editor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of the Practitioners' Advisory Board of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, the Advisory Board of the Pakistan Journal of International Relations and the Steering Committee of the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome.

Eva was educated at Technische Universität Dresden and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (MSc and PhD).

Selected publications

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Public Policy
Global Environmental Governance and Rights of Nature Discourses in an Age of Deglobalisation: People, Planet, and PowerFudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Springer), online first 4 June 2026 · 2026
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The diffusion of authoritywith David Held · In T. G. Weiss and R. Wilkinson (eds), International Organization and Global Governance, Routledge, pp. 59–72 · 2023
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Dipesh ChakrabartyIn M. Ramgotra and S. Choat (eds), Rethinking Political Thinkers, Oxford University Press, ch. 37, pp. 679–696 · 2023
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Debating Conflict, war and revolution: Introduction to the special sectionwith Bettina Koch · Global Policy 14(5), 742–745 · 2023
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From Colonialism to Globalization: State Violence in Modern IndiaIn B. Koch (ed.), State Terror, State Violence, Springer VS (Wiesbaden), pp. 53–70 · 2016
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Climate Governance in the Developing Worldwith David Held and Charles Roger · Polity Press (edited volume; ISBN 978-0-7456-6277-0) · 2013