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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

Event summary: Voices in learning and teaching

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

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 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

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.

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.

In discussion: Jamie J Hagen

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

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.

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.

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.

Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender

Alexandros Koutsoukis discusses the key points from his 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spotlight on: Dakila Yee

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

War of movement: The political economy of conflict escalation in Colombia, 1990–8

Oliver Dodd discuss the key points from his new RIS article.

Emerging norms and international change: The responsibility not to veto and its impact on the Security Council

Eglantine Staunton discusses the key points from her new RIS article.

Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs

Nikhil Kalyanpur discusess the key points from his new RIS article.

Two decades of analysing the state in the green transition: Where are we now?

Mathias Larsen and James Jackson explore why climate researchers routinely return to the state.

BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – The new dimensions of foreign policy (1975!)

Professor Jack Holland looks back at the themes of the first BISA conference, which took place in 1975.

The latest in IR - autumn book round up

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

Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots

Benjamin Moffitt discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.

Abusing the international solidarity principle: Human rights, international solidarity, and the EU’s bilateral migration deals

Jamal Barnes and Samuel M Makinda discuss the key points from their new RIS article.

Ecocide: a 21st century international crime in the making?

Read Suwita Hani Randhawa's article on research supported by an Early Career Small Research Grant.

Revisiting the ‘darker side’ of democratic peace: Morgenthau, reflexivity, and the role of scholars in times of deception

Haro L Karkour discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.

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