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Dr. Charlotte Hulme

Deputy-Director, Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program

Assistant Professor of International Affairs

charlotte.hulme@westpoint.edu

Biography


Dr. Charlotte Hulme is Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Deputy-Director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Strategy Program. Charlotte’s book, Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order, examines how powerful non-national actors, including multinational corporations, are playing increasingly prominent roles in the international security landscape, particularly in unconventional issue areas like climate change, with interesting implications for twenty-first century grand strategy. Charlotte received her PhD in Political Science from Yale University and M.Phil. in Politics and International Studies from Cambridge University.

Ongoing Research Projects


Charlotte’s current book project explores the role of corporations in responding to climate change during the 2010s, a decade marked by an abdication of state leadership in the issue area. The book proposes that corporate climate action is a case study in the new actors and issues reshaping the arena in which states will have to articulate and advance their interests in the 21st century. It argues that the phenomenon of corporate climate action ultimately calls for a rethinking of the traditional relationship between states and exceptionally powerful, increasingly ambitious non-state actors. 

Publications & Presentations


Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order (Palgrave Macmillan 2023).

Climate Change and the Future of International Order, invited presentation, Centre for Grand Strategy, King’s College London (2021). 

“Change of Players, Change of Game: How States Got Left Behind on Climate Change,” E-International Relations (2019). 

“Grand Strategy in the Age of Climate Change: A Theory of Emergent Grand Strategy,” The Strategy Bridge (2019). 

“Islamic State Fighters in Africa: A Look at the Numbers,” co-authored with Jason Warner, CTC Sentinel (2018).