BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - 'Fast research' and perfectly targeted events
We asked some #BISA2025 delegates to share their reflections of the conference in Belfast.
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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.
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Take Five - 27 June 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
Spotlight on: Lena Schlegel
Postdoctoral researcher Lena Schlegel shares her research interests and future plans.
Making peace within hierarchy: seeing international peacemaking, world order and history from Cameroon
Jacqui Cho discusses the new article published in BISA journal Review of International Studies.
Review of International Studies podcast - episode three
In the third episode of the podcast, Seb Kaempf discusses peacebuilding with Dahlia Simangan.
Take Five - 6 June 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
Review of International Studies podcast - episode two
In the second episode of the podcast, Seb Kaempf discusses Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill.
Outcomes: ‘Effective peace and security approaches for the UK in a volatile world’
The outcome report is available to download from the peace and security roundtable on 1 May 2025.
Spotlight on: Adam Barnett
PhD candidate Adam Barnett shares his research interests and future plans.
Global Aid Rethink - episode two
Listen to the new podcast from the conveners of the Global Politics and Development Working Group.
Global Aid Rethink - episode three
Listen to the new podcast from the conveners of the Global Politics and Development Working Group.
Take Five - 23 May 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
The best books on feminist teaching and learning
Aiko Holvikivi gives us her best books on feminist teaching and learning. Published with Shepherd.
Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism
Deborah Barros Leal Farias discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain
Nick Caddick discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: a field of struggle
Ana Vilenica reflects on the proceedings from the International Conference: “Postcolonial, Decolonial, Postimperial, Deimperial,”
The best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong
Oz Hassan gives us his best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong.
The latest in IR - spring book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
CPD Paper Prize Honourable Mention 2024: Decolonisation and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders
RIS Editor Cian O'Driscoll talks to Alice Engelhard (LSE) about her paper for the CPD annual prize.
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - From small acorns grow large postgraduate networks!
Founding Postgraduate Network Chair James A Malcolm reflects on the beginnings of the Network.
CPD Paper Prize Honourable Mention 2024 - Towards an Anticolonial Aesthetic Politics: Surrealist Praxis & Epistemic Refusal
Cian O'Driscoll talks to Sara Wong (LSE) about her paper for the CPD Working Group annual prize.
CPD Paper Prize Winner 2024 - Affective Sovereignty: A decolonial politics of emotion in Palestine
Andy Hom interviews Jamal Nabulsi, who won the BISA CPD Working Group's Early Career Paper Prize.
Take Five - 9 May 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
Unlock the power of academic blogging: Storytelling, tips and tools
If you missed Global Souths Hub academic blogging masterclass, find the recording and slides here.
Global Aid Rethink - Episode 1
Listen to the new podcast from the conveners of the Global Politics and Development Working Group.
Improving EDI in funding and prizes - What are the challenges and how do we overcome them?
Laura McLeod reflects on our funding and prize awarding processes and their improvement.
French ontological security and the Algerian War
Britt Leake discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
The International Studies Conference, peaceful change, and the transformation of international studies in the United States during the prewar and wartime years
Talbot Imlay discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
A-Z of IR: Y is for 'Yugoslavia' and Z is for 'Zero-Sum game '
The final part of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series.
Take Five - 25 April 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan
Cesare Figari Barberis and Mirkamran Huseynli discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Strangely inspired: Recovering a neo-Strangean approach to power, authority and knowledge for IPE
Blayne Haggart and Randall Germain discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
What do we want? Climate justice!
Dr Guy Jackson discusses different visions of climate justice.
Event summary: Publishing your first research article
Professor Maria Mälksoo led a workshop on publishing your first research article for the PGN.
A-Z of IR: W is for 'War' and X is for 'X article (socialism vs capitalism)'
Part twelve of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Normativity in practice: Ordering through enactment, learning, and contestation in global protests
Frank Gadinger and Holger Niemann discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia
Michael Varnay discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics
Ebony Young discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
Nitasha Kaul and Mariah Thornton discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Take Five - 11 April 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
A-Z of IR: U is for 'United Nations' and V is for 'Veto'
Part eleven of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Towards a phenomenological ontology of war
Mark Gilks discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons
Carolina Pantoliano discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Event Summary: What is academic writing and how to get better at it
Anne Wilson led an interactive workshop for the Postgraduate Network demystifying academic writing.
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Shaping a global IR to respond to global challenges
In part two of our discussions with former chairs, they discuss how BISA has shaped global IR.
What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?
Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
In discussion – Nicholas Wright
We talk to Nicholas Wright, a co-opted BISA trustee, to get to know him a little better.
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.
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