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Events

Global development cooperation at a crossroads: what ground rules for partnership in a fragmented world?

28 November 2025, Zoom, Online

Climate negotiation simulation 2025

1 December 2025, Chatham House, London

CPD annual workshop - Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis

1 December 2025, London, UK

Post-Assad Syria and the Gulf States: reflections on the past year

5 December 2025, Zoom, Online

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Take Five - 28 November 2025

Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.

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Legitimising international orders: The symbolic dimension of surrender

Alexandros Koutsoukis discusses the key points from his new RIS article with the video abstract.

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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.

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

Elif Kalaycioglu and Jelena Subotić discuss their RIS article and the special issue it introduces.

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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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