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Events

Subordinate no more? Brazil’s financial strategy in a polarised world

6 May 2025, zoom

Postgraduate Network (PGN) Conference: Emerging knowledge from emerging researchers

8 May 2025, Edinburgh, UK

Book talk: Iranian Foreign Policy and the Empowerment of Ansar Allah

12 May 2025, Zoom

Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics

13 May 2025, Zoom

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Latest from BISA

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Improving EDI in funding and prizes - What are the challenges and how do we overcome them?

Laura McLeod reflects on our funding and prize awarding processes and their improvement.

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Executive Committee candidates 2025 announced - vote now!

Voting is open for elections to our Executive Committee. View all the nominations and how to vote.

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Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize

A new prize for early-career researchers who present at BISA's main, in-person conference.

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The International Studies Conference, peaceful change, and the transformation of international studies in the United States during the prewar and wartime years

Talbot Imlay discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.

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A-Z of IR: Y is for 'Yugoslavia' and Z is for 'Zero-Sum game '

The final part of Adrian Gallagher's A-Z of IR series.

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French ontological security and the Algerian War

Britt Leake discusses his new RIS article along with the video abstract.

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Take Five - 25 April 2025

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

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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.

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