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Events

BISA/PSA Heads of Department meeting

25 November 2025, Zoom, Online

Book talk - Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control

25 November 2025, Zoom, Online

Voices in learning and teaching: Participatory methods for inclusive education

26 November 2025, Zoom, online

The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia - concepts, conflicts, crossovers

27 November 2025, Zoom, Online

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Latest from BISA

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Global politics of cultural heritage: Status, authority, and geopolitics

Elif Kalaycioglu and Jelena Subotić discusses the key points from their new RIS article.

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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.

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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.

#BISA2026 War Studies Working Group keynote announced – Waging war, making peace

The War Studies Working Group keynote at #BISA2026 will be a roundtable chaired by Michael Cox.

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Neoclassical realist theory of populist foreign policy

Gustav Meibauer discusses 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.

A group of students around a table at FCDO for BISA/FCDO Model NATO 2025

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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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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