*PSA FILM* Watch the third film in our NEW #Equality, #Diversity and #Inclusion (EDI) Video Series. In these short films, contributors reflect on what #EDI means to them, why it matters, and the challenges the discipline still faces. ➡️ buff.ly/01gxLP8

Good news that this edited volume has hit the shelves. Self-promotion klaxon: lovely to see the review quotes describe our chapter as "worth the price of the whole book": brill.com/display/book...

Anything by Allison is worth reading (with Anna Drake, one of the first to write on deliberative consociation).

Hello Bluesky! We're @ipsa.org Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity. We're looking forward to sharing news from the RC and its members with you all here.

A reminder that this event is happening today at 14:00 UK time. Join us to hear from the authors of some fascinating new research about food and peace, filmic activism, cultural heritage damage during conflict, and more!

Join us for the online launch of a special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension.' Expertly edited by @giudifontana.bsky.social with some great articles by @elisabethking.bsky.social @laiabalcells.bsky.social and many others! 4 Sept, 9am EST

Join us on 4 September for the launch of this Special Issue on 'Conflict and Peace: the Cultural Dimension'. @laiabalcells.bsky.social will be discussing our article on the roles of museums in addressing Northern Ireland's violent past

Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

Research Committee 14 Politics and Ethnicity of @ipsa.org will be organising a colloquium hosted by @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social in Bolzano/Bozen in June 2026. See the RC14 website for further details. sites.google.com/view/ipsarc1...

*PSA Specialist Groups* The PSA has 50 specialist groups dedicated to specific areas of #PoliticalStudies and #InternationalRelations. Learn more and get involved with the groups.

In "A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status", Serena Hussain asks what happens to residents in an annexed area, and how control is maintained over such areas - up #openaccess and #earlyview at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh

In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

*PSA26 Annual Conference* - Call for Papers is now open! If you've got a question or query, check out the extensive FAQs. Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025 ➡️

🚨Another new open access #ARINS article: ‘Accommodating Territorial Contestation and National Constitutional Change: The Cases of Cyprus and Ireland’ — on EU approaches to conflict & potential reunification. Read here📚: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

*PSA26 Annual Conference* 📢 Call for Papers. Submission details online. If you've got a question or query, check out the FAQs. 📆 Proposal deadline 17 October 2025. ➡️ buff.ly/oIgRfxQ #OpenCall #PoliticalStudies #ResearchPapers #Politics #PIR

I missed this at the time, but some interesting analysis of NILT data from @katyhayward.bsky.social and @jonnyhhanson.bsky.social here, also summarised on QPOL. #LoughNeagh

Interesting piece on the evolving thinking by some in Sinn Fein on the ‘how do you solve a problem like Maria (or should that be Martha)?’ Q for Irish Unity - what, if anything, should be kept of the territorial identity, and governance, of N Ireland post-unification #stormont #devolution

The final part of Peter Lippman's six part series on environmental threats and civic activism in Bosnia & Herzegovina is up… It explores the issue through a number of rivers that are being destroyed, a huge loss in a country that has some of Europe's last wild rivers: lefteast.org/grassroots-r...

🌟PSA75🌟 This year marks 75 years of the PSA being the home of #PoliticalStudies. Since 1950 we have been advancing, supporting & promoting the global study of #politics and #InternationalRelations. 🎬 Watch this 3 minute film to learn more.

Why does power-sharing lead to peace in some cases but not others? Alexandre Wadih Raffoul investigates looking at #Burundi and #NorthernIreland in "Practicing Power-Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly", #earlyview and #openaccess at onlinelibrary.wiley....

Know a potential PhD student interested in #democraticresilience, environmental politics & the Baltics? If so pls encourage them to check out this funded studentship & chance to work with my wonderful colleagues Licia Cianetti and Fiona Nunan. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

To learn more about some of the survey results discussed by our director, Prof Peter Shirlow, and our Politics colleague @jontonge.bsky.social at this @arinsproject.bsky.social event, please go to www.ria.ie/2025/07/04/n...

We already have a panel, 'Rethinking the Dynamics of Power-sharing in Deeply Divided Societies', prearranged for #PSA26 in Oxford, but Specialist Groups will be helping review general submissions and other paper proposals on the theme of ethnopolitics (broadly conceived) would be very welcome!

*PSA26 Call for Papers* 👇 If you've got a question or query, check out the FAQs👇 ➡️

I am glad to say that my new book 'Nationalism as A Way of Life' will be published in December with the Cambridge University Press. More information about the book: www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

Concerned with conflicts over political liberties & the regime in federal states? Just out in @democratization.bsky.social - A new, regime-change driven „genotype of secession“. - How it mattered in the breakup of the Soviet Union & Yugoslavia. Is California next? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There are thousands of languages and dialects spoken in India, but most children learn three: the local tongue, Hindi and English.

We already have a panel, 'Rethinking the Dynamics of Power-sharing in Deeply Divided Societies', prearranged for #PSA26 in Oxford, but Specialist Groups will be helping review general submissions and other paper proposals on the theme of ethnopolitics (broadly conceived) would be very welcome!

*PSA Specialist Groups* The PSA has 50 specialist groups dedicated to specific areas of #PoliticalStudies and #InternationalRelations. Learn more and get involved with the groups.

*PSA EVENT* 🚨Next Week 🚨#Political Studies Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness & #Black #Politics. Hosted by PSA Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Specialist Group @psa-race.bsky.social 📆 30 July 2025, London ➡️

A thought provoking piece on the Labour Government’s approach to Legacy issues in Northern Ireland from our very own @aimeejaysmith.bsky.social & @feargalc.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social Seems clear that a more inclusive approach is required for policy changes to secure legitimacy in NI 🙏

My study of conceptual issues in the literature on power-sharing, consociationalism, and centripetalism (with recommandations on how to enhance conceptual clarity) was published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Patrizia John has a new article out on the representation of cross-segmental interests under consociationalism, using Lough Neagh as a case study. Looks interesting. Thanks to Patrizia for the citation! #LoughNeagh onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you're in Seoul for the @ipsa.org #IPSA2025 World Congress, do check out the RC14 Politics and Ethnicity track. wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/track/rc1...

Some excellent perspectives on power-sharing, lessons from across different cases & need to build #InclusivePeace for settlements to have legitimacy & more robust institutions. Top work from top scholars @inclusivepeaceora.bsky.social @neophytosloizides.bsky.social @allimcculloch.bsky.social

On 4 September, join @giudifontana.bsky.social and some of the authors of articles from the new special issue of @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Nationalism and Ethnic Politics on 'Conflict and Peace: The Cultural Dimension' for an online event launching the issue. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gove...

📚 *Weekend Reading* 📚 This week is #BlackInclusionWeek and the PSA Race, Migration and Intersectionality Specialist Group @psa-race.bsky.social has a brilliant #booklist to share with you all. 📚 Share your own recommendations too! #BIW2025 #InclusionMatters #diversityandinclusion #books #readinglist

*Become a PSA member* Our new ‘go cardless’ sign-up makes joining or renewing even easier! buff.ly/XUlviZR

Hello, Bluesky! We're the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Ethnopolitics Specialist Group. Thanks to everyone who participated in or came to our panels at the recent PSA Annual Conference in Birmingham. Expect to hear more from us here in the coming months. SG members, do tag us in relevant posts!