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CPD Paper Prize Honourable Mention 2024: Decolonisation and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders
RIS Editor Cian O'Driscoll talks to Alice Engelhard (LSE) about her paper for the CPD annual prize.
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Challenges of Peripheral Development in Open Economies: Financial Markets and Policy Space in Brazil
Join the International Political Economy Working Group for the sixth session Financialisation in Latin America series.
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The latest in IR - spring book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
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Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!
Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.
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Improving EDI in funding and prizes - What are the challenges and how do we overcome them?
Laura McLeod reflects on our funding and prize awarding processes and their improvement.
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BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - From small acorns grow large postgraduate networks!
Founding Postgraduate Network Chair James A Malcolm reflects on the beginnings of the Network.
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CPD Paper Prize Honourable Mention 2024 - Towards an Anticolonial Aesthetic Politics: Surrealist Praxis & Epistemic Refusal
Cian O'Driscoll talks to Sara Wong (LSE) about her paper for the CPD Working Group annual prize.
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Welcome to CPD's blog - a platform to create against the grain of empire, coloniality, and injustice
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The best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong
Oz Hassan gives us his best books that explain why the West keeps getting the world wrong.
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The best books on the effectiveness of international criminal courts
Tom Buitelaar shares his best books on international criminal courts. Published with Shepherd.
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Call for papers: BISA-ISA joint workshops - Transforming the international: Scholarship and solidarity in a world of inequalities
Submit your paper proposal for the BISA-ISA joint workshops taking place in October 2025.
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Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain
Nick Caddick discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
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Call for papers: International Political Economy in a world on fire
Submit your papers for the new International Political Economy Workshop!
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Event summary: Publishing your first research article
Professor Maria Mälksoo led a workshop on publishing your first research article for the PGN.
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UG event: Geographies of escalation - Disputes on territory, sovereignty and control in an ever-changing international system
New event catered towards undergraduate students on the geographies of escalation.
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Call for submissions - BISA sponsored panels/roundtables to ISA 2026
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Global Aid Rethink - Episode 1
Listen to the new podcast from the conveners of the Global Politics and Development Working Group.
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Take Five - 23 May 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
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Nominations open for the International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize 2025
Nominations for the annual IPEG Working Group Book Prize are open now.
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Heritage as power: History and tradition in constructing Brazil’s far-right populism
Deborah Barros Leal Farias discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.
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The future of NATO
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Workshop: ecocide in global politics
Join the International Law and Politics Working Group along with the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.
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Book talk: IPEG book prize 2024 winner, ‘Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy'
Join the IPEG Working Group for a book talk from their 2024 IPEG book prize winner Melissa Johnston.
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Trustee election results 2025 announced
We are pleased to announce the newly elected members of our Executive Committee.
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Take Five - 9 May 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
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Review of International Studies podcast - episode two
In the second episode of the podcast, Seb Kaempf discusses Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill.
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Public lecture: What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’
Cynthia Enloe delivers public lecture at Queen's University Belfast to open #BISA2025.
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