Pamela Jordan, Ph.D.

p.jordan@snhu.edu

Associate Professor

Southern New Hampshire University

Year of PhD: 1997

Country: United States (New Hampshire)

Website

Research Interests

Post-Communist Politics

Human Rights

Climate Change Politics

Countries of Interest

Canada

United States

Russia

Publications:

Journal Articles:

(2020) “Hands Across the Water: Climate Change and Binational Cooperation in the Great Lakes Basin”, Climatic Change

In examining the impact of climate change on binational governance of the Great Lakes between 2012 and 2019, this article evaluates the extent to which Canada and the U.S. have implemented the objectives in the climate change impacts annex—Annex 9—to the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA), in cooperation with diverse networks of governmental and nongovernmental actors. It also examines whether action taken thus far to implement Annex 9 indicate a marked improvement in adaptive institutional capacity in addressing climate problems in the Great Lakes Basin. The author argues that the effectiveness of climate action in the Great Lakes Basin depends not only on the domestic efforts of the U.S. and Canadian governments, the responsible parties in implementing binational water agreements. It also hinges on whether they have the institutional capacity and the political will required to help fund and coordinate the actions of the several heterogeneous networks. Significant progress was made in the areas of information-sharing, network-building, and capacity-building for more effective measurement, monitoring, and analysis of climate change impacts in the Great Lakes Basin. However, the Parties have not yet developed a long-term binational framework for action supporting climate change adaptation and resilience. In the meantime, First Nations groups and municipal and other networks are implementing their own community-level resilience plans, but these actors cannot fully compensate for weak federal leadership and inadequate human and financial resources.

(2017) “Diminishing Returns: Russia’s Participation in the World Trade Organization", Post Soviet Affairs

Russia’s 2012 accession to the World Trade Organization was widely expected to spur economic growth and modernization, by helping the country abandon its import-substitution model and fully integrate into the global economy. However, thus far, Russia’s compliance record with its WTO commitments has been mixed, and WTO membership has given Russia limited economic benefits and few political gains. In analyzing why, this article uses neoclassical realism as a framework for assessing Russia’s behavior in WTO trade disputes and negotiations. During Russia’s economic recession, the regime of President Vladimir Putin advanced protectionist policies and maintained statist control over the heights of the economy, while using rhetorical strategies to counter accusations from Western powers that Russia had violated WTO norms. Russia’s struggling economy weakened its status as a global economic power, and it was viewed as unqualified to sit among the core group of negotiators in the WTO.

Books Written:

(2016) Stalin's Singing Spy: The Life and Exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, Rowman and Littlefield

Stalin’s Singing Spy follows the remarkable life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of Tsar Nicholas II’s favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin’s agents. She claimed throughout her career to be fundamentally apolitical, yet decades later in Europe, Plevitskaya was unmasked as one of Joseph Stalin’s secret agents along with her husband, White Russian General Nicholai Skoblin. Their experiences in exile shed light on Stalin’s covert operations and the hardships Russian émigrés faced in interwar Europe, an era of great political and economic turmoil. This book uncovers the roles that the couple played in one of the Soviets’ major intelligence coups—the 1937 kidnapping of White Russian General Evgeny Miller in Paris trial. The first English-language biography of Plevitskaya and the first to reconstruct her sensationalized trial, her story provides a fascinating window into Soviet-era espionage.

(2005) Defending Rights in Russia: Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reform in the Post-Soviet Era, UBC Press

In the book, I examine the transformation of the Russian bar (advokatura), from the Gorbachev era to the early Putin era (2000-2003), with emphasis on state-bar relations and the development of a domestic human rights regime.