Take Five - 25 April 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
Articles
Here we bring you editorial and analysis on the hot topics in International Relations, including summaries from our two journals and research from our members and working groups.
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Obliged to hate: The successful stigmatisation of anti-war voices in Azerbaijan
Cesare Figari Barberis and Mirkamran Huseynli discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Strangely inspired: Recovering a neo-Strangean approach to power, authority and knowledge for IPE
Blayne Haggart and Randall Germain discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Event Summary: Publishing Your First Research Article
Professor Maria Mälksoo led a workshop on Publishing Your First Research Article for attendees.
What do we want? Climate justice!
Dr Guy Jackson discusses different visions of climate justice.
A-Z of IR: W is for 'War' and X is for 'X article (socialism vs capitalism)'
Part twelve of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
‘Emperor at home, king abroad’: Legitimising authority in early modern East Asia
Michael Varnay discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Normativity in practice: Ordering through enactment, learning, and contestation in global protests
Frank Gadinger and Holger Niemann discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
Nitasha Kaul and Mariah Thornton discuss their new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Climate change on a fluid earth: The movement of matter in the spaces of global politics
Ebony Young discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Take Five - 11 April 2025
Eve Harrison-Taylor gives you a rundown of the 5 best IR podcasts and articles this fortnight.
A-Z of IR: U is for 'United Nations' and V is for 'Veto'
Part eleven of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Towards a phenomenological ontology of war
Mark Gilks discusses his 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.
Playing doomsday: Video games and the politics of nuclear weapons
Carolina Pantoliano discusses her new RIS article along with the video abstract.
Event Summary: What is academic writing and how to get better at it
Anne Wilson led an interactive workshop for the Postgraduate Network demystifying academic writing.
What does ‘survival’ mean and require in an age of nuclear weapons?
Author Laura Considine discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
In discussion – Nicholas Wright
We talk to Nicholas Wright, a co-opted BISA trustee, to get to know him a little better.
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – Insights from former Chairs
We set out to reveal the wisdom of some BISA past Chairs including Ruth Blakeley and Stuart Croft.
Topos of threat and metapolitics in Russia’s securitisation of NATO post-Crimea
Anni Roth Hjermann and Julie Wilhelmsen discusses their new Review of International Studies (RIS) article
A-Z of IR: S is for the 'Security Dilemma' and T is for 'Trust'
Part ten of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the rest
Tobias Lenz discusses the key points from the authors new Review of International Studies article.
A-Z of IR: Q is for 'Queer Theory' and R is for 'Responsibility to Protect (R2P)'
Part nine of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy
Alexandria Innes discusses the key points from her new Review of International Studies article.
The narrow repertoire of climate security
In the latest Environment article, Dr Robert Cullum discusses climate security and 'worldmaking'.
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Michael Cox
In the first of a series of articles, Michael Cox discusses memories of BISA and its achievements.
The Rousseauian roots of neorealism
Joseph Clarkson discusses the key points from his new Review of International Studies article.
The latest in IR - winter book round up
Each quarter we bring you updates on the latest book releases from BISA members.
A-Z of IR: O is for 'Order' and P is for 'Power'
Part eight of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
A theory of international technology regulation
Florian Rabitz discusses his new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
A-Z of IR: M is for 'Money' and N is for 'Nuclear Weapons'
Part seven of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
The best books that explore the role of neutral countries in times of war, and in shaping the world
Edward Corse shares his best books on the role of neutral countries. Published with Shepherd.
Time to rethink climate in/vulnerability
Dr Charlotte Weatherill discusses the concept of 'climate vulnerability'.
A-Z of IR: K is for 'Kleptocracy' and L is for 'Legitimacy'
Part six of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Norm expressivism and punishment in International Relations
Cornelia Baciu discusses the key points from her new Review of International Studies article.
A-Z of IR: I is for 'International' and J is for 'Just War Theory'
Part five of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
A-Z of IR: G is for 'Gender' and H is for 'Hegemony'
The fourth part of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Children’s games and global politics: Masculinity, militarism, and the warrior hero
Lee Jarvis discusses the key points from his new Review of International Studies article.
Green Pan-Africanism: Normative power and the making of a regional sustainability order
Kennedy Mbeva discusses the key points from his new Review of International Studies article.
Routines die hard: Ontological security and audience agency in securitisation
The authors discuss the key points from their new Review of International Studies article.
Adaptive politics, or countering the myth of German transformation after 1945
Laura Jung discusses the key points from her new Review of International Studies article.
‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders
The authors discuss their new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
Economisation as boundary work: Integrating climate change into IMF surveillance
Jakob Skovgaard discusses the key points from his new Review of International Studies article.
The best books on the effectiveness of international criminal courts
Tom Buitelaar shares his best books on international criminal courts. Published with Shepherd.
History in the plural: Reconfigurations of past-present-future
Author Zeynep Gülşah Çapan discusses the new Review of International Studies (RIS) article.
Variation in states’ discursive (de)legitimation of international institutions: The case of the Arctic Council
Nicholas Olczak discusses the key points from his new Review of International Studies article.
A-Z of IR: E is for 'Eurocentrism' and F is for 'Failed States'
The third two subjects of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series. The series continues each week.
Take Five - 5 December 2024
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