The politics of austerity: global and local
Catch up on the main talking points from this public event held at #BISA2022 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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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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Review of International Studies Best Article Prize - Thomas Kwasi Tieku in discussion
Find out more about RIS Best Article Prize joint winner Thomas Tieku and his award winning article.
Review of International Studies Best Article Prize - Maria Mälksoo in discussion
Find out more about RIS Best Article Prize joint winner Maria Mälksoo and her award winning article.
Snapshots podcast: episode three - Dr Anne Roemer-Mahler
Episode three of the Global Health Working Group's podcast features Dr Anne Roemer-Mahler.
Wind of change: peacemaking in a multipolar world order
Sara Hellmüller explains how macro-level perspective can improve analysis of contemporary mediation.
The Falklands War at 40: voices of the conflict - Event review and podcast
Missed this joint CWD and BIHG event? Find out what was discussed and listen to the recording.
The in-between
Sofia Doyle and Dr Jana Fey discuss the precarity of casualised work in HE for our special series.
Banalities, dissent, and support
Dr Terri-Anne Teo and Dr Elisa Wynne-Hughes explore the experiences of migrants working in UK HE.
Carrying the world on our shoulders: the burden of self care in academia
Dr Sana Rahim discusses how to address the wellbeing of women in academia.
Equally precarious? Precarity, excellence, and the prospect of an academic career for a ‘non-traditional’ scholar
Dr Sanja Djerasimovic discusses 'precarity on the road to permanence' in our new special series.
The latest in IR - spring book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
Snapshots podcast: episode two - Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott
Episode two of the Global Health Working Group's podcast features Professor Adam Kamradt-Scott.
Gender, race and the intersections of precarity - a new blog series
Skyler Hawkins continues the conversation from our report of 2021, and will host a workshop.
Why sticking plasters are not enough
Dr Orly Siow writes for the special series: 'Gender, race, and the intersections of precarity.'
Event summary: navigating conferences
An overview of the key points from the PGN's navigating conferences event.
Careers spotlight: Dr Renée Martin-Nagle
Dr Renée Martin-Nagle shares her post-PhD career path, as part of our new Careers Spotlight series.
Event summary: pursuing non-academic careers post-PhD
A summary of Stephanie Rinaldi, Caroline Metz, and Anni Pues' discussion on post-PhD careers.
Machine learning political orders
Louise Amoore discusses her Review of International Studies (RIS) article with editor Martin Coward.
Why studying the late twentieth century is crucial for understanding IR today
Sam Dixon explores how the discipline of IR changed in the late twentieth century.
Career spotlight: Dr Laura White
Dr Laura White tells us about her post-PhD career path in our careers spotlight series.
Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene
Anthony Burke talks to Review of International Studies editor, Martin Coward, about his article.
Snapshots podcast: episode one - Dr Nicholas Thomas
The first episode of the Global Health Working Group's podcast looks at the work of Nicholas Thomas.
Torturous journeys: Cruelty, international law, and pushbacks and pullbacks over the Mediterranean Sea
Watch Jamal Barnes discuss the key takeaways from his article in Review of International Studies.
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity
Claudia Aradau and Sarah Perret summarise the key points from their RIS article.
EJIS conversations - Decolonising war
We talk to Tarak Barkawi about his popular European Journal of International Security article.
Taking part in Model NATO - A case study
We talk to student delegate Becci Dugdale (Westminster) about her experience at Model NATO 2022.
Beyond formal powers: Understanding the African Union's authority on the ground
Antonia Witt discusses the key points from her RIS article on International Organisations (IO).
The Military Ties Between African Ruling Parties and North Korea
Focus of this blog is military ties between southern African liberation movements and North Korea.
Agonistic peace agreements? Analytical tools and dilemmas
Watch Lisa Strömbom, Isabel Bramsen and Anne Lene Stein give a short summary of their RIS article.
The Art of Forgetting: Art and Peacebuilding in Moldova and Transnistria
Discusses art, political engagement, and peacebuiliding in Moldova and Transnistria
Materialities of inequality and the epistemic potential of SEE
A reflection on the epistemic potential of South East Europe.
Doing epistemic decolonisation in Bosnia: Peripheral selves
A reflection on the possibilities of decolonisation within scholarship on South East.
Academic knowledge production in ‘home’ institutions: a call for material positionality in research on Bosnia and Herzegovina
Part of the blog series showcasing contributions from BISA 2021.
Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene
Watch Joana Castro Pereira discuss her latest article with co-author Maria Fernanda Gebara in RIS.
Russian rekindling of the Great Patriotic War
Jade McGlynn discusses use of media and parallels between current events and the Great Patriotic War
Empire, exceptionalism, and the rhyming of history
Kevork Oskanian (Exeter) discusses Russian exceptionalism and whether history might repeat itself.
Ukraine and the Responsibility to Protect: the consequences for the vulnerable (and the not yet vulnerable) should be front and centre of our reasoning
Jason Ralph discusses the importance of conscientious reflection on the consequences of action.
Dissenting at the United Nations: Interaction orders and Venezuelan contestation practices (2015–16)
Mélanie Albaret and Élodie Brun discuss their new article from Review of International Studies.
Ukraine invasion: why China is more likely to support Russia than in the past
Russian and Eurasian Security Working Group conveners Natasha Kuhrt and Marcin Kaczmarski discuss.
The latest in IR - winter book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live
Heloise Weber and Aliya Abbasi discuss their new article in Review of International Studies (RIS).
Imagining International Relations theory differently
A new video from Professor Ilan Zvi Baron's BISA-sponsored learning and teaching project is now live
The intellectual and institutional challenges for International Political Economy in the UK: Findings from Practitioner Survey Data
Alex Nunn and Stuart Shields discuss the key points from their article in BISA journal RIS.
EJIS conversations - Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond: Towards analysis and assessment in context
In the latest EJIS conversation James Michael Page and John Williams discuss their article on drones
Recrafting ontology
Tamara Trownsell discusses key points from her new article in Review of International Studies.
Narrating reproductive justice: feminist imaginaries, solidarity and change
Hannah Partis-Jennings discusses her BISA-sponsored research into reproductive justice.
The non-anthropocentric informational agents: Codes, software, and the logic of emergence in cybersecurity
Watch Noran Shafik Fouad discuss her latest article in BISA journal Review of International Studies.
What does increased global displacement mean for the global system of nation states?
Gemma Bird discusses research funded by a BISA Early-Career Small Research Grant on Samos, Greece.
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