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Here we bring you editorial and analysis on the hot topics in International Relations, including summaries from our two journals and research from our members and working groups.

If you’d like to contribute an article please get in touch with our Communications Manager, Chrissie Duxson: Chrissie.Duxson@bisa.ac.uk

Great power competition for global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI): Reconstructing AI narratives of the United States, China and the European Union

Jakob Landwehr-Matlé, Kai Oppermann and Daniel Lambach discuss key points from their RIS article.

Spotlight on: Margarida Gama

PhD candidate Margarida Gama shares her research interests and future plans.

Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms

Jan Eijking discusses the key points from his new RIS article.

The Ford Foundation and the development of international relations in China

Shuhong Huo, Inderjeet Parmar, and Ferran Perez Mena discuss key points from their new RIS article.

Feminising diplomatic work: Driving devaluation?

Bahar Rumelili and Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm discuss the key points from their new RIS article.

The latest in IR - winter book round up

Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.

Keeping the human in the loop: Reassuring educators in the age of AI

A briefing drawing on insights from one of our 2025 BISA-ISA joint Workshops.

Mapping the margins: A decolonial exploration of Kenyan women’s encounters with violent extremism

Sahla Aroussi and David Duriesmith discuss the key points from their new co-authored RIS article.

Everyday casteism in cyberspace and what it means for cybersecurity

An article about caste and casteism in the context of cybersecurity.

Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders

Alice Engelhard discusses the key points from her new RIS article.

Overlooked dimensions: Emotions in environmental movements and green politics

Dr Efser Rana Coşkun on her new book Unraveling Emotions in Environmental Movements and Green Politics.

Review of International Studies podcast - episode eight

In the eighth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses 'Seeing and sensing world politics' with Professor Roland Bleiker.

Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation

Asad Zaidi discusses the key points from his new RIS article.

Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe

Bart-Jan Zandee and Salvador Santino Regilme discuss the key points from their new RIS article.

New Books Network podcast - States of transition

Pauline Heinrichs talks to Peter Newell about his latest book.

The best books on queer movement building

Jamie Hagen gives us her best books to understand queer movement building.

Fan club world politics: Reinterpreting international relations beyond the state

Thomas Davies discusses the key points from his new RIS article with the video abstract

Review of International Studies podcast - episode seven

In the seventh podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses Katrina Lee-Koo's new editors selection.

Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations

Gabriella Colello discusses the key points from her new RIS article with the video abstract.

Review of International Studies podcast - episode six

In the sixth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses Restraining War with Thomas Gregory.

World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige

Elif Kalaycioglu discusses the key points from her new RIS article.

Review of International Studies podcast - episode five

In the fifth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses Global Environmental Issues with Poppy S. Winanti

Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question

Caroline Elizabeth Dunton discusss the key points from her new RIS article with the video abstract.

BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – Democracy and human rights challenges

Ruth Blakeley shares perspectives on events and challenges that have shaped the discipline.

Event summary: Voices in learning and teaching

Insights from Dr Edwards and Dr Jackson on participatory methods for inclusive learning.

Event recording: Global development cooperation at a crossroads - ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?

Catch up on the recent event from the Global Politics and Development Working Group

Event recording - New dimensions, 50 years on: Reflections on continuity and change in global politics

Watch the recording of this virtual event, revisiting the first ever BISA conference in 1975.

Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions

Author Sylvain Maechler discusses the key points from his co-authored article with Jacqueline Best.

Outsourcing anti-dependency: Brazil’s fraught embedded-autonomy approach to China

Rute Ester Brasileiro da Silva discusses the key points from her new RIS article and video abstract.

In discussion: Jamie J Hagen

We talk to Jamie J Hagen, our BISA EDI Officer, to get to know her a little better.

Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia

Neil Christopher Renic and Jessica Wolfendale discuss the key points from their new RIS article with the video abstract.

Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender

Alexandros Koutsoukis discusses the key points from his new RIS article with the video abstract.

The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality

Annika Bergman Rosamond discusses the key points from her new RIS article with the video abstract.

Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics

Elif Kalaycioglu and Jelena Subotić discuss their RIS article and the special issue it introduces.

Decentred dereliction in digital international relations: PeaceTech, ethics, and the cascading of moral responsibility

Andreas T. Hirblinger, Fabian B. Hofmann and Kristoffer Lidén discuss the key points from their new RIS article.

Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy

Gustav Meibauer discusses the key points from his new RIS article.

Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland

Ian Paterson and Ben Rosher discuss the key points from their new RIS article.

The best books to understand how the global order is changing

James Pattison gives us his best books to understand how the global order is changing.

Spotlight on: Dakila Yee

PhD candidate Dakila Yee shares his research interests and future plans.

Heritage geopolitics: Hegemonic meaning-making, international orders, and the heritagisation of traditional archery in Turkey and beyond

Fulya Hisarlıoğlu and Lerna K Yanık discuss the key points from their new RIS article.

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