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The latest in IR - autumn book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
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Research Directors’ Forum update: Navigating changes to UoA 19 and beyond
Read a summary of the discussion from the November 2025 Research Directors' Forum.
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International Political Economy Working Group 2025 book prize winner announced
Find out who won the 2025 IPEG book prize!
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Event recording - Public engagement in research: tools and reflections on reaching new audiences
Watch the recording of the PKPBHR Working Group event the alternative tools used to showcase research
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Call for papers: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop
Submit your papers for the CPD 12th annual workshop.
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The best books on terrorism and democracy
Carlos Yebra López gives us his best books on terrorism and democracy. Published with Shepherd.
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IR career starters - November 2025
Over 300 internships, traineeships, fellowships and entry-level positions in IR.
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IR career starters - June 2025
300 internships, traineeships, fellowships and entry-level positions in International Relations.
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Climate negotiation simulation 2025 keynote and countries announced
Over 30 universities from across the UK will take part alongside participants from Chatham House.
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Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots
Benjamin Moffitt discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
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BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – The new dimensions of foreign policy (1975!)
Professor Jack Holland looks back at the themes of the first BISA conference, which took place in 1975.
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Weaponised legal dependence: How states repress their globalised oligarchs
Nikhil Kalyanpur discusess the key points from his new RIS article.
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War of movement: The political economy of conflict escalation in Colombia, 1990–8
Oliver Dodd discuss the key points from his new RIS article.
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Emerging norms and international change: The responsibility not to veto and its impact on the Security Council
Eglantine Staunton discusses the key points from her new RIS article.
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Voices in learning and teaching: Participatory methods for inclusive education
Learn participatory teaching tools to deepen engagement, enhance active learning and inclusive practice.
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CPD annual workshop - Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis
The Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group are holding their annual workshop in London.
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Heritage geopolitics: Hegemonic meaning-making, international orders, and the heritagisation of traditional archery in Turkey and beyond
Fulya Hisarlıoğlu and Lerna K Yanık discuss the key points from their new RIS article.
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Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2025
This prize is aimed at supporting early-career members in development of peer-reviewed work.
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An update from the European Journal of International Security
Our journal brings you updates on new articles and special section papers.
Model NATO 2026 expression of interest
Fill in this form to express your institution's interest in the BISA/FCDO Model NATO 2026.
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Book talk - Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control
Join the EPIR Working Group for a book talk from Billy Holzberg on his book on 'Affective Bordering'
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The best books to understand how the global order is changing
James Pattison gives us his best books to understand how the global order is changing.
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Spotlight on: Dakila Yee
PhD candidate Dakila Yee shares his research interests and future plans.
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Take Five - 14 November 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
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Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power
Kasper Arabi discuss the key points from his new RIS article.
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Introducing the inaugural BISA/BFPG Undergraduate Network committee
We have appointed a brilliant group of students who will lead the through its first year.
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Call for expressions of interest - BISA/FCDO Model NATO 2026
We will once again be holding a model NATO with the FCDO. Up to 29 universities can participate.
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Emotions in Politics and International Relations seminar series: An introduction to Jacques Lacan
The EPIR Working Group will be joined by Todd McGowan to discuss his Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan.
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