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Events

20th anniversary workshop - Between continuities and ruptures: Exploring violence and resistance in the SEE

27 March 2025, Liverpool, UK

Postgraduate/early-career researcher virtual workshop: Intersection of memory/trauma and the Politics of Emotions in IR

31 March 2025, Zoom

EPIR seminar series: Dis-membering, re-membering: understanding the affective force of violence through fantasies in (post)war Sierra Leone

3 April 2025, Zoom

Contemporary Research on International Political Theory postgraduate masterclass: theorising the global right

9 April 2025, Zoom

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Latest from BISA

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What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?

Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.

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In discussion – Nicholas Wright

We talk to Nicholas Wright, a co-opted BISA trustee, to get to know him a little better.

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L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Four impressive books made the list and will be judged by a committee appointed by a BISA trustee.

Kyle Grayson, Toni Haastrup and Geoff Swenson giving a presentation for BISA

Call for nominations to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025

We're pleased to announce we have six trustee positions up for election to the Executive Committee.

BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – Insights from former Chairs

We set out to reveal the wisdom of some BISA past Chairs including Ruth Blakeley and Stuart Croft.

NATO flag behind a statue

Topos of threat and metapolitics in Russia’s securitisation of NATO post-Crimea

Anni Roth Hjermann and Julie Wilhelmsen discusses their new Review of International Studies (RIS) article

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Take Five - 14 March 2025

Nathan Sadd brings you the five best IR-related podcasts and readings this fortnight. Take five.

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A-Z of IR: S is for the 'Security Dilemma' and T is for 'Trust'

Part ten of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.

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