The inescapable future of AI-enabled security: Imagining future terrorism and counterterrorism in UN technocratic governance
Alice Martini discusses the key points from her new RIS article.
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Migration diplomacy in Mexico–United States relations: Decision-making under asymmetric structures
Natalia Saltalamacchia discusses the key points from her new RIS article.
One cheer for the WTO: Reflections from the field on MC14
Erin Hannah and James Scott talk about their attendance at the Ministerial Conference in Cameroon.
Conspiracy theory as counter-securitization: Contestation and resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ugo Gaudino discusses the key points from his new RIS article co-authored with Tim Aistrope.
The best books on queering global politics
Caitlin Biddolph gives us her top books on queering global politics as part of our Shepherd partnership.
Spotlight on: Mir Wafa Rasheeq
PhD candidate Mir Wafa Rasheeq shares her research interests and future plans.
The benefits of trusteeship for early-career researchers
BISA EDI lead Jamie Hagen discusses the benefits for early-career researchers acting as trustees.
New Books Network podcast - African climate futures
Pauline Heinrichs talks to Carl Death about his latest book.
‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture
Zoë Jay discusses the key points from her new RIS article.
Between the national and the personal: The interactional production of agency in diplomacy
Roni Berkowitz, Gadi Heimann and Zohar Kampf discuss the key points from their new RIS article.
Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics
David K. Johnson discusses the key points from his new RIS article.
Great power competition for global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI): Reconstructing AI narratives of the United States, China and the European Union
Jakob Landwehr-Matlé, Kai Oppermann and Daniel Lambach discuss key points from their RIS article.
Spotlight on: Margarida Gama
PhD candidate Margarida Gama shares her research interests and future plans.
Time frames: Crisis expertise and rapid response mechanisms
Jan Eijking discusses the key points from his new RIS article.
The latest in IR - winter book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
The Ford Foundation and the development of international relations in China
Shuhong Huo, Inderjeet Parmar, and Ferran Perez Mena discuss key points from their new RIS article.
Feminising diplomatic work: Driving devaluation?
Bahar Rumelili and Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm discuss the key points from their new RIS article.
Keeping the human in the loop: Reassuring educators in the age of AI
A briefing drawing on insights from one of our 2025 BISA-ISA joint Workshops.
Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders
Alice Engelhard discusses the key points from her new RIS article.
Mapping the margins: A decolonial exploration of Kenyan women’s encounters with violent extremism
Sahla Aroussi and David Duriesmith discuss the key points from their new co-authored RIS article.
Everyday casteism in cyberspace and what it means for cybersecurity
An article about caste and casteism in the context of cybersecurity.
Overlooked dimensions: Emotions in environmental movements and green politics
Dr Efser Rana Coşkun on her new book Unraveling Emotions in Environmental Movements and Green Politics.
Review of International Studies podcast - episode eight
In the eighth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses 'Seeing and sensing world politics' with Professor Roland Bleiker.
Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation
Asad Zaidi discusses the key points from his new RIS article.
Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe
Bart-Jan Zandee and Salvador Santino Regilme discuss the key points from their new RIS article.
New Books Network podcast - States of transition
Pauline Heinrichs talks to Peter Newell about his latest book.
The best books on queer movement building
Jamie Hagen gives us her best books to understand queer movement building.
Fan club world politics: Reinterpreting international relations beyond the state
Thomas Davies discusses the key points from his new RIS article with the video abstract
Review of International Studies podcast - episode seven
In the seventh podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses Katrina Lee-Koo's new editors selection.
Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations
Gabriella Colello discusses the key points from her new RIS article with the video abstract.
Review of International Studies podcast - episode six
In the sixth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses Restraining War with Thomas Gregory.
World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige
Elif Kalaycioglu discusses the key points from her new RIS article.
Review of International Studies podcast - episode five
In the fifth podcast episode, Seb Kaempf discusses Global Environmental Issues with Poppy S. Winanti
Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question
Caroline Elizabeth Dunton discusss the key points from her new RIS article with the video abstract.
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 summary: Voices in learning and teaching
Insights from Dr Edwards and Dr Jackson on participatory methods for inclusive learning.
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
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.
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.
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.
In discussion: Jamie J Hagen
We talk to Jamie J Hagen, our BISA EDI lead, to get to know her a little better.
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.
Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender
Alexandros Koutsoukis discusses the key points from his 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.
Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics
Elif Kalaycioglu and Jelena Subotić discuss their RIS article and the special issue it introduces.
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.
Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy
Gustav Meibauer discusses the key points from his new RIS article.
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