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

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, this online event revisits the first ever BISA conference, held in 1975 under the title The New Dimensions of Foreign Policy. That inaugural meeting explored what were then emerging areas of concern: monetary, technological, energy, and maritime dimensions of foreign policy.

Half a century later, these themes are no longer ‘new’, yet they continue to shape global politics in significant ways. This event will bring together a panel of scholars to reflect on how these dimensions have developed and what they reveal about the shifting terrain of International Studies.

In a back to the future spirit, the discussion looks both backward and forward - revisiting the ideas that animated BISA’s beginnings while asking what new ‘dimensions’ might define the next fifty years of foreign policy thinking.

Speakers

The event will be chaired by former BISA Chair Professor Inderjeet Parmar (City St George’s University). Our four panellists, each addressing one of the themes, are as follows: 

• Maritime – Professor Tim Edmunds (University of Bristol)

• Monetary – Dr Pedro Perfeito da Silva (University of Exeter)

• Technological – Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico (Northumbria University)

• Energy – Professor Caroline Kuzemko (University of Warwick)

Registration will close two hours before the event begins.