BISA - British International Studies Association

📢The #BISA2025 programme has been released & registration is open!! All submissions should have received an email notifying you about your status on the programme & details of registration and accommodation. Any queries email [email protected] @NickCaddick1 @JulietDryden

Interested in joining our @BISAPGN committee? Find out more below and get your application in! We’d love to hear from you ✅

BISA PGN Committee Elections for 2025–26 are now open. If you are a PhD student interested in shaping BISA postgraduate events, communications, and leadership —this is your chance. For more details: 🔗 bisa.ac.uk/members/pgn/co… @MYBISA @JulietDryden @assalakhettache

🌟 Our conference survey winners (winning a free BISA membership for 1 year) this year were: 👉 Megan Thomas from @LivUni 👉 @DavidDuriesmith from @ShefUniPolitics 👉 @hannah_r_west from @AngliaRuskin Congratulations and a massive thank you to everyone who took part! 🎉

🌟NEW 'Take Five' from Director/CEO Juliet Dryden & Comms Intern Eve Harrison-Taylor 🌟 Our top 5 readings/podcasts on #internationalstudies from the last two weeks! inc: @purisamir1 @ishaantharoor @CFR_org @tortoise @EngelsbergIdeas @LRB & more: bisa.ac.uk/news/take-five…

🌟BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Finding our voice and bridging the gap 🌟 w/ @assalakhettache PhD student @AberUni and chair of @BISAPGN & Eve Harrison-Taylor undergrad student @sheffielduni and BISA communications intern. 📚 Read now 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

'Leadership decapitation in civil war: Leadership arrest and the negotiations between the state and the insurgents.' @CUP_PoliSci 📚 @RISjnl #openaccess article by Ulaş Erdoğdu out NOW 🎉 Read Ulaş's key arguments 👉 bisa.ac.uk/articles/leade… DOI 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S02602…

What makes an academic blog post stand out? @ZaraQadir and Mira Mookerjee share 10 key lessons from our @MYBISA #BISA2025 talk to help your research reach more readers, with more impact. 📖 Read the full post 👇 buff.ly/UUcAFrs

Know someone that would love to join BISA? Are you a member? 🎉 Our BISA referral scheme allows current members to receive three months free BISA membership added on to the end of their membership for every new member they refer! Read more 👉 bisa.ac.uk/news/new-refer… @BISAPGN

🎙️@SPERIshefuni Presents: Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ @JoannaTidy, Dr Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser @berylpong @Frank_Ouh & @remi_edwards 🎉 Recorded @bisa_ipeg roundtable at #BISA2025 🌟 listen now 👉 ow.ly/Upxl50WtTkB

🌟Ep 4 of the @RISjnl podcast! 🌟 Hosted by @SebKaempf this week is w/ @MMalksoo & her selection of articles seeking to conceptualise, apply and/or rethink ritual dynamics in the context of IR 🌎 Inc: @JMChairDal @SimonKoschut @lucaslitmanen listen 👉 bisa.ac.uk/articles/revie…

🚨 New BISA at 50 article out now! 🚨 🌟'BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives - Personal takes on #BISA2025 🌟 w/ Helena Farrand Carrapico - BISA Secretary & Prof in IR and Criminology @NorthumbriaUni & @JulietDryden - BISA CEO 📚 Read now 👉 bisa.ac.uk/articles/bisa-…

Join @MYBISA Postgraduate Network Committee for 2025–26! We’re recruiting for: ✅ Vice-Chair ✅ Events & Elections Officer ✅ Communications Officer Make connections, gain leadership experience, and support a global network of PhDs and ECRs. 🔗forms.gle/aYswPxuxBHvGJ8…

Early Career Paper Prize - deadline approaching! - Did you present a paper on one of our panels at #BISA2025? - Are you a PhD student or within three years of graduating? - Can you write a draft paper by 16th August? Nominate yourself! Details: bisa.ac.uk/news/early-car…

Ep 6 and final ep of Global Aid Rethink' podcast out now! 🌟 Hosted by Global Politics and Development WG convenors Dr Melita Lazell & Ivica Pertrikova this week they're discussing 'the future of aid' w/ @drjacktaggart reflecting on recent aid cuts 🌎 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

🎙️ @E_IR X #BISA2025 podcasts 🎙️ With @kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠ and @Faloulah speaking to : @rbleiker @NickCaddick1 @maxwinrayen92 @Ema_Errichiello @DrDavidJWilcox @ChasCarmen @gemmakristina @JasonRalph4 and many more! 🎉 🎧 listen now - e-ir.info/category/featu…

New #OpenAccess @RISjnl article by Federico Salvati 🎉 'Authenticity, performativity, and profilicity in international relations: Autocracies and the evolution of the liberal world order' @CUP_PoliSci 🌟 Read here now 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S02602… @BISA_FPWG @bisawarstudies

Episode 4 of Global Aid Rethink' podcast out now hosted by Global Politics and Development WG convenors Dr Melita Lazell & Ivica Pertrikova 🌟 Exploring the financialisation of aid w/ @EmmaMawdsley highlighting 2 key challenges this shift presents 🌎 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

Ep 5 of Global Aid Rethink' podcast out now hosted by Global Politics and Development WG convenors Dr Melita Lazell & Ivica Pertrikova 🌟 w/ @TamsinBradley4 reflecting on how development projects with “gender” or “women” in the title are being cut 🌎 👉 bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

🌟 Our best Article in the @RISjnl Prize Runner up this year was @toni_erskine for her paper: 'AI and the future of IR: Disentangling flesh-and-blood, institutional, and synthetic moral agency in world politics' 🌎 Read now 👉 buff.ly/yq8VdQL

#OpenAccess from the new issue of @RISjnl - Thinking freedom relationally: Life projects and care as an ethical orientation for International Studies - cup.org/3GNHLw9 - Maggie FitzGerald (@usask) #FirstView