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Events

EPIR seminar series: Dis-membering, re-membering: understanding the affective force of violence through fantasies in (post)war Sierra Leone

3 April 2025, Zoom

Foreign policy in Iraq: A way forward

7 April 2025, Zoom

Subordinate financialisation in Chile: banking dynamics in a Global Market-Based financial system

7 April 2025, Zoom

Contemporary Research on International Political Theory postgraduate masterclass: theorising the global right

9 April 2025, Zoom

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Latest from BISA

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Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons

Carolina Pantoliano discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.

BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Shaping a global IR to respond to global challenges

In part two of our discussions with former chairs, they discuss how BISA has shaped global IR.

Academy of Social Sciences Fellow Award Spring 2025

Several members of BISA have been accepted as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).

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Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2025 shortlist announced

Three excellent books made the list and will be judged by a committee appointed by a BISA trustee.

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Call for abstracts: publishing in war and security studies

Submit your abstracts for the Publishing in War and Security Studies event at #BISA2025.

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Take Five - 28 March 2025

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

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What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?

Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.

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In discussion – Nicholas Wright

We talk to Nicholas Wright, a co-opted BISA trustee, to get to know him a little better.

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