Chair Roundtable at BISA 2025 - 50 years and counting: reflecting on the discipline and profession of International Studies
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In celebration of our 50th anniversary, and as part of the #BISA2025 conference in Belfast, we held a roundtable of distinguished former BISA Chairs to discuss how international relations – as a set of global relations and as a scholarly discipline - has changed over the last five decades.
The roundtable featured:
- Professor Barry Buzan (BISA Chair, 1988–1990)
- Professor Chris Brown (1997-1999)
- Professor Christopher Hill (1999-2001)
- Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (2005 – 2007)
- Professor Richard Whitman (2018 – 2019)
- Professor Ruth Blakeley (2021-2023)
- Chaired by Professor Mark Webber (2019-2021)