Review of International Studies podcast - episode three

BISA journal Review of International Studies (RIS) has released the second episode of its new podcast.

The aim of the podcast is to foster conversations about some of the most pressing issues of our time and to facilitate reflections on the latest developments in International Relations. The podcast is hosted by Associate Professor Sebastian Kaempf (The University of Queensland), who is also an editor of the journal.

In this episode, Associate Professor Dahlia Simangan, one of the members of our editorial team, talks to Dr Seb Kaempf about those seminal RIS articles that have focussed and driven research on the topic of peacebuilding. The articles in this Special Collection directed these turns through their critical perspectives, including Nadarajah and Rampton's article on the limits of hybridity as a conceptual tool for peacebuilding. They also contribute to research-informed policy discourse, such as Chandler's article, which shifts the critique of liberal peace to policy practices and narratives that promulgate the view that Western intervention is too "liberal," thereby excusing peacebuilding failures. Going beyond the analysis of success and failure and breaking away from the binary conceptualisation of international and local, Lemay-Hébert and Kappler's article helps us articulate several configurations emerging from the implementation and ownership of peacebuilding processes. 

Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of the RIS editor's selections, which are published every three to six months. 

Listen to the podcast episode below, or wherever you get your podcasts, and make sure you give them a follow.