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@ninahall.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of International Relations, Johns Hopkins, SAIS Europe. IR, NGOs, IOs, advocacy, and climate change Recent bk: www.cambridge.org/it/universitypres…

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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Next UNSG selection process underway. But little media attention to process & recent straw poll results. Here's a great explainer piece. #UN @ninareiners.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Race to be next UN secretary general could rest on US and China trade-offs
Numerous possible last-minute entrants being discussed as current field of seven candidates struggle to garner support
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Emma Bonino, a radical Italian politician died on Friday. She successfully campaigned to legalize abortion and divorce. Spoke at Bologna @jhu.edu in 1999 as Member of the European Commission for Consumer Policy, EC Humanitarian Office and Fisheries. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Programme is live for Festival of Ecological Imagination, October 7 - 12 in Bologna. "Sensing the Climate" @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @Serra Madre @UniBo. Join us! Great speakers, artists, musicians, workshops and more! I'm hosting Frans Timmermans & Joanne Yao. serramadre.art/produzioni/f...
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Festival of Ecological Imagination 2026
Dal 7 al 12 ottobre, serra madre, in collaborazione con Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe e Università di Bologna, ospita la seconda edizione di Sensing the Climate, il Festival of Ecological…
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Great place to spend the day working, gorgeous @eui-eu.bsky.social garden. Thanks Firenze! @raffaelemstr.bsky.social
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Wonderful to be at the last "Europe and the World" @eui-eu.bsky.social w/ @stephofmann.bsky.social & Charlie Rogers. Great discussion on what are intl organisations really?? Certainly got me thinking :)
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Great fun taking my class to the Bologna comune yesterday to talk about local democracy. FYI - Putnam's classic work "Making Democracy Work" highlights Bologna (& Emilia Romagna): highest civic culture in Italy.
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ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Climate action 🤝 political left? Not necessarily. In a new ENSURED blog, @ninahall.bsky.social (@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social) challenges the idea that the far right is inherently anti-environment. In reality, Hall argues, it's far more complex. What does this mean for environmental governance? 👇
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Beyond Obstruction: Rethinking the Far Right and Climate Governance - Expert Blog | ENSURED
Far-right governments are often assumed to obstruct global climate cooperation – but the reality is far more complex. When and why do some far-right leaders engage with international environmental ins...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📣 📣 The ISA IO Section welcomes nominations for Excom positions. Deadline 30 Jan 2026. Please apply for: -Secretary (1) -Member-at-Large (3) -Graduate Student Member-at-Large (1) The link to very brief application form is: lnkd.in/e3XDN_84 Thanks for sharing widely!
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
✨New article out in International Studies Review✨ NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models. doi.org/10.1093/isr/...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When Trump withdrew last week from South Pacific Environmental Programme (SPREP) China stepped up immediately. China is giving US$200,000, matching the US contribution. One of many implications of US withdrawal from Intl' Orgs. @raffaelemstr.bsky.social www.rnz.co.nz/internationa...
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China matches US contribution to Pacific environmental body a week after Trump pulls out
The funding announcement comes a little over week since President Trump withdrew from SPREP.
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Neat to see "Beyond these Shores" a bk I edited on NZ foreign policy @ unity bks, local Wellington bookshop. Still available 5+ yrs after it came out! Great collaboration with @tekuaka.bsky.social
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Last week Trump withdrew from 66 international orgs (formal and informal) & treaties. Here's a great analysis. It's common practice for donors to review intl' institutions. BUT never seen such a mass withdrawal. @raffaelemstr.bsky.social @borzyskowski.bsky.social share.google/eeZrt1pndwVf...
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Retreating from Internationalism
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Final day of Winter School on AI & technology change. Students presented to Italian PM on UN Global Digital Compact. Great collaboration btw SAIS Europe & Uni of Bologna! 🙏 @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social
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Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So glad to see the Winter School on AI & Tech Change underway! 🌟 This is the second edition of this wonderful SAIS- @unibo.it collaboration - a project I’m truly proud of. Huge thanks to my amazing colleague @ninahall.bsky.social and our fantastic students for making this such an inspiring journey
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"Governing Digital China" Daniela Stockmann here @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social to share her new book at SAIS & UniBo Winter School on AI, and Technological Change. @connect-unibo.bsky.social
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
*Winter School on AI & Tech Change gets going today.* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social 20 students from Uni of Bologna & SAIS Europe discussing how to regulate AI globally. Great collaboration w/ @manuelamoschella.bsky.social & Alice Matttoni
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
**Deadline 15 Dec** for Workshop in Bologna, May 2026. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Submit your abstract on "Obstructionism in International Organisations" co-hosted w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social Deets 👇
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Thanks Geneva for a wonderful few days of conversations! Sad to hear extent & impact of massive cuts to #UN & #ICRC budgets. But woke this morning to fresh snow & these gorgeous clouds. @ninareiners.bsky.social @stephofmann.bsky.social
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NYT ripped into the Sierra Club for going woke (abandoning #climate campaign for DEI). Read @davekarpf.bsky.social on the actual challenge US #climate movement faces - esp. Erosion of democracy. @hanspeterschmitz.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene...
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Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In London? Come along tonight "Governing the End" Lisa Vanhala's new book on #climate loss and damage. 18.30 @ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
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Join our book launch: Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss & Damage
UCL Grand Challenge are hosting an event for the launch of Professor Lisa Vanhala's (PVP to the Grand Challenge theme of Climate Crisis) new book, Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss ...
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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In a new Nature Climate Change comment, we call for reflection on the role and purpose of #climatelitigation in light of unfortunate trends of challenges to judicial independence, deregulation & anti-climate litigation w/ @mer29-cam.bsky.social @highamian.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social
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Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge @campolis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Check out this new research paper "Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash" in @nature.com by @mer29-cam.bsky.social, @ninahall.bsky.social, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, @highamian.bsky.social & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash - Nature Climate Change
Restrictions on civil society may drive climate activists to shift from protest to litigation. However, challenges to judicial independence, deregulation and anti-climate litigation mean that activist...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani's won NYC mayoralty. Worthwhile reading his dad's book "Neither Settler nor Native", Harvard. A fascinating account of how nation state intertwined with colonial state: making indigenous ppls "permanent minorities" share.google/Tqcv0mEtRjyO...
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Neither Settler nor Native — Harvard University Press
Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award Finalist“Provocative, elegantly written.”—Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books“Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Reorienting #Climate litigation in a time of backlash, shrinking civic space & challenges to judicial independence Here's our take in Nature w/ Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Lisa Vanhala, Joana Setzer, Ian Higham & @harrovanasselt.bsky.social Great collaboration! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash - Nature Climate Change
Restrictions on civil society may drive climate activists to shift from protest to litigation. However, challenges to judicial independence, deregulation and anti-climate litigation mean that activist...
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Raffaele Mastrorocco @raffaelemstr.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Had such a great and productive time with these amazing people in Rapallo for the Exploratory Symposia @europeanisa.bsky.social ! Perhaps we’re smiling too much for discussing the Far-Right in International Politics, but how can you blame us considering our project’s progresses and that view!
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss & Damage" In London next Weds? Join this book launch of new brilliant work by Lisa Vanhala @ucl.ac.uk Looking fwd to it! @birshao.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Buongiorno Rapallo! #EISA what a spot!!
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
En route to Rapallo for #EISA working sessions. Thanks to Lisbeth Zimmerman & @raffaelemstr.bsky.social for getting us time in a wonderful place to write!
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
In London? I'm speaking on Far Right and Global Environmental Politics. Thurs 6 Nov 2-3pm @soasuni.bsky.social Please join! Deets below👇
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏
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Call for Papers Obstructionism in International Organizations
Date: May 20-22 2026 Location: SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy Hosts: Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe) & Inken von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford) Aim: This workshop will bring toge...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thanks to @stephofmann.bsky.social & the IR crew @eui-eu.bsky.social for wonderful feedback! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Huge CONGRATS to @hahrie.bsky.social for winning a McCarthur Genius Grant! Fantastic news! hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...
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Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant
Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What a wonderful weekend of "Sensing the Climate" conversations and experiences at our Festival! Here are artists Mali Weil & Joanne Yao in Le Serre, Bologna. Thanks all volunteers & participants! @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Next Thurs 16 Oct I'll be @unileiden.bsky.social Hague Campus. Speaking on "Far Right and Global Environmental Politics" 17 - 18.30. Details 👇 please join & spread the word!
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What a scoop! Defence documents from five eyes meeting 👁️ left at a charity shop. Detail deepening military alliance to counter China. Uncovered by investigative journalist Nicky Hager. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...
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Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop
The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...
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Raffaele Mastrorocco @raffaelemstr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Excited for #EISARapallo25 in a few weeks! With Prof. Lisbeth Zimmermann, @ninahall.bsky.social & others, we'll discuss the role & impact of the Far-Right in International Politics! And we're in great company! Programme's out now! eisa-net.org/wp-content/u... Thanks @europeanisa.bsky.social !!
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"If movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live" - New Yorker article on cinema festival in Bologna. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration
Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Wonderful discussion this morning on how artists and academics listen to the living world. Joanne Yao & Mali Weil artist collective. #Sensing the #Climate @ Le Serre Bologna Festival of Ecological Imagination UniBo & @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Italy: National strike in solidarity w/ Palestine today. The second national strike in2 wks. Thousands of Italians taking to the streets. Here's Bologna getting ready this morning.
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
And it's happening!! #Sensing the #climate festival at Serramadre, Bologna. First event: workshop on the floods which hit Bologna last year. Full program here: serramadre.art
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In two wks I'll be Leiden University, speaking at the Hague campus Thurs Oct 16 (17.00 - 18.30). Please join! @unileiden.bsky.social @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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LUCIR Seminar: The Far Right and Global Environmental Politics
The electoral success of far-right parties appears to threaten many international environmental organizations. These parties question the legitimacy of international institutions and are more likely t...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Today Sensing the Climate, Festival of Ecological Transition starts w/ a film 🌳 "Il codice del Bosco" 🌳 Join us!! @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @connect-unibo.bsky.social serramadre.art/evento/il-co...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Salvini's big project is to build a bridge from mainland Italy to Messina, Sicilia. Fascinating pamphlet arguing why: so domestic animals can more easily cross the straits!! This bridge is problematic for many rsns (costs, environmental, earthquake). @fgenovese.bsky.social
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Ocean acidification Planetary boundary now breached :( www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wonderful interview w/ Robert MacFarlane on his latest book, "Is A River Alive?". He visits rivers in Ecuador (which has recognised rights of nature in its constitution), Chennai, and Canada. Powerful writing, and by the end rivers become a verb, not a noun. open.spotify.com/episode/7kr4...
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Is A River Alive? - Can a New Book Convince You?
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Thrilled to be co-hosting the "Sensing the Climate" festival next week in Bologna. Please join us!! Wonderful line up of artists, musicians, performers, & films. Hosted in glasshouses in public gardens: Giardini Margherita. serramadre.art/produzioni/f...
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Festival of Ecological Imagination
Dal 1 al 6 ottobre, serra madre, in collaborazione con Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe e Università di Bologna, inaugura Sensing the Climate, la prima edizione del nuovo Festival of Ecological…
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
How did pulling out of the Paris Agreement become a mainstream idea? Support a neat podcast research project in NZ. @ralph9.bsky.social www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...
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Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe
Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thousands on the streets of Bologna for Palestine solidarity march. Even the cinema is closed for national strike.
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ninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
National strike for Palestine today in Italy. Large demonstrations in Bologna. Schools closed, public transport reduced. Italian govt has not (yet) officially recognised Palestine. en.ilsole24ore.com/art/today-ge...
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