NEW: "European strategic cultures in flux? Case study on the European peace facility" from @katariinamustasilt.bsky.social & @tyynekarjalainen.bsky.social. Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🗺️‼️ Must-read: "International lulz: Exploring the strategic logic of trolling in diplomacy" from Huw Dylan & Thomas Colley 👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

¿Es posible que Francia sustituya a EEUU como nuestro principal seguro nuclear? Escribo sobre ello aquí:

New article out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social ! In 2015–16, Russia’s FSB tested migration as a strategic tool in the High North, using state-orchestrated mobility to pressure neighbours, exploit humanitarian norms, and project influence short of war. Read the full article 👇 #OpenAccess #hybridwarfare

🌏 BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – 10 Years of the European Journal of International Security 🎉 Join @edmundsprof.bsky.social as he looks back at the creation of our journal, ten years on! 🌟 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/bis... @mybisa.bsky.social

This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨 Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉 Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social

🇫🇷 NEW: "Towards a French nuclear umbrella? Assessing the transition from US to French dual-key arrangements" from @nbardio.bsky.social. 📚👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🤖🌎 Brand new - and fascinating. "The more-than-human biopolitics of swarming – complexity, emergence, and control in military robotics" from @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social. 👉 Open access & available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀🚨 EJIS VOL. 10 ISSUE 3 OUT NOW 🚨🎉 Includes three new articles, PLUS a five paper special section on 'Threat Perception and International Security' - including Janice Gross Stein on threat perception and response. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @mybisa.bsky.social

Our Early Career Small Research Grants and Learning and Teaching funds open TODAY! 🎉 You must have been a BISA member for over 6 months to apply and the deadline is 24 November! 🌟 Eligibility requirements 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/fund... @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

🔥 "Sand in the gears: Sabotage in world politics" from @jrovner.bsky.social, @rorycormac.bsky.social, & @lmaschmeyer.bsky.social is a must-read. 👉 Read this timely article here: cambridge.org/core/journal... cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am very pleased to be joining the @ejisbisa.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. Looking forward to working with Andrew Mumford, @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social, Sergio Catignani, Simone Tholens, @olivierschmitt.bsky.social and Amira Jadoon. www.bisa.ac.uk/news/update-...

✉️ New BISA newsletter has dropped! ✉️ Be sure to subscribe to @mybisa.bsky.social to get information on the latest from RIS, EJIS, and the upcoming conference. #BISA2026 @ejisbisa.bsky.social

Some news: we're delighted to announce that Matthew Ford and Simone Tholens (@simonetholens.bsky.social) have joined EJIS as associate editors! 🎉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/update-...

⏱️🚨 From the archives: "Engines of power: Electricity, AI, and general-purpose, military transformations" by @jeffreyding.bsky.social and Allan Dafoe. 👉 Free to read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Won’t you join RIS and EJIS for #BISA2026?

☀️ BISA is back, sunnier than ever, and OPEN for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions! 🥂 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM #BISA2026 🎉

🚨🚀 "Military demonstrations as digital spectacles: How virtual presentations of AI decision-support systems shape perceptions of war and security" from @vanderborghtr.bsky.social & Anna Nadibaidze. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Introducing new BISA Chair @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social - Priorities and plans for 2025-2027 🌟 Join us as BISA Chair Professor Juanita Elias @warwickpais.bsky.social introduces herself and her 3 top priorities for BISA during her tenure! 🎉 Read here: buff.ly/612GRk9 @ripejournal.bsky.social

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM @visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

Why and how does Russia engage in the arms trade? Jonata Anicetti, Shang-Su Wu, and Ron Matthews seek to understand Russian arms trade on a deeper level through an eight-decade perspective that uncover a more nuanced set of motives. Read, in full, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Little old us? If you're not already following the entire @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org bluesky family, what are you doing? 😉🦋

🚨🇷🇺 "‘Down with neocolonialism!’ Strategic narrative resurgence and foreign policy preferences in wartime Russia" from @maudinet.bsky.social. Open access & available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📑🚀 New and open access: "Finding the thieves amongst the liars: Thinking clearly about cyber-enabled influence operations" from Christopher Whyte & Ugochukwu Etudo. 👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Also, a quick reminder that our article on the German Zeitenwende is now online and available open access in European Journal of International Security @ejisbisa.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article on sabotage accepted for publication in @ejisbisa.bsky.social authored with @lmaschmeyer.bsky.social and @jrovner.bsky.social calls for a celebratory Dartmoor whisky Sabotage weaponises friction to degrade; subversion actively generates change 2 distinct logics in “grey zone” statecraft

🚨🚀 NEW and open access: "Digital im/materiality and the securitisation of cyber" from Håvard Rustad Markussen. 👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀 Are you ready to shape thinking in the field? The #BISA2026 call for papers is OPEN NOW! Submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟 More here: conference.bisa.ac.uk

📚🎉 New and open access: "The drone revolution: Towards a synthesis in the drone debate" from James Wesley Hutto and @jamespattonrogers.bsky.social. 👉 Read more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📖🚀 "Choosing not to choose: Hedging as a category of neutrality" from Fabio Figiaconi is fabio-lous (ahem) and precise analysis of hedging in contemporary international relations. 👉 Open access and available here: cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some exciting news to share: our new article ‘If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende, co-authored by @malteriemann.bsky.social and myself, has just been published open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! We conceptualize Zeitenwende

Der Artikel ‘If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende von @malteriemann.bsky.social und mir, der jetzt open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social online erschienen ist, begreift die Zeitenwende als eine narrative „Neutaktung“

📖 "Russian counter-trade as a mechanism for promoting arms sales and diplomatic influence" from Jonata Anicetti, Shang-Su Wu & Ron Matthews is a timely and fascinating new EJIS article. 🇷🇺👉 Read it, for free, here: cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇷🇺 "‘Down with neocolonialism!’ Strategic narrative resurgence and foreign policy preferences in wartime Russia" from Maxime Audinet. 👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇲🇲🇹🇭 New and open access: "State failure and dilemma of security cooperation among neighbouring countries in the Global South: Evidence from Myanmar and Thailand" from Enze Han & Sirada Khemanitthathai. 👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀 Brand new: "Making stars align: Partnerships between state sponsors and armed groups" from @niklaskarlen.bsky.social. 📚👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚀 Brand new: "Making stars align: Partnerships between state sponsors and armed groups" from @niklaskarlen.bsky.social. 📚👉 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Event this week! 🎉 17 July Security Policy and Practice WG - 'Digesting the UK's new National Security Strategy'🚨 Discussing the analysis and policy directions set out in the National Security Strategy 🌎 Sign up now 👉 buff.ly/51VNVEo

Anything submitted to EJIS between 12th July and 11th August will be processed after the 11th, due to summer leave for the editorial staff. Thank you for understanding! 🚀

"Fighting for their country: How proximate conflict shapes citizens’ attitudes" from @alexsorg.bsky.social, @wolfgangwagner.bsky.social, and @profonderco.bsky.social. 📖 Read in full here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

EJIS has received its first formal Impact Factor of 2.5, making us a Q1 IR journal. Many thanks to all our authors, previous editorial teams, and our colleagues at BISA & CUP for supporting this achievement within 10 years of the journal's founding! 🚀

If you were at the BISA conference in Belfast last week, you might have seen this photo on the BISA Memory Board - the first three EJIS editors: Tim Edmonds, Jason Ralph and Andrew Mumford!

Looking to head into the weekend with a relevant read? "Timing bombs and the temporal dynamics of Iranian nuclear security" from Ryan K. Beasley & Ameneh Mehvar might be for you! 🇮🇷 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇮🇷🇫🇷🇨🇳 Interested in Iranian national security, left-wing populism in France, and Chinese power in the Pacific Islands? The latest issue of EJIS might be for you! 🚀 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌟We had our keynote talk yesterday with @bleiker.bsky.social at the Assembly hall 🌟 In ‘Seeing and Sensing world politics’ Roland explored how academics should be writing books for both articles and art and how we can’t take for granted our privilege in scholarly and the wider world! 🌍

Enjoying #BISA2025? There's only one way to make it better... EJIS has a brand new issue! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#BISA2025 - did you know that the European Journal of International Security is #OpenAccess from 2025? You can find out more about publishing open access in @ejisbisa.bsky.social here - cup.org/440G5ae @mybisa.bsky.social

Passend zum Thema #Manifest, wird es demnächst einen Artikel von @malteriemann.bsky.social und mir in @ejisbisa.bsky.social geben mit dem Titel: ‚If I could turn back time’: Temporal Security Narratives, Ontological Disruption and Germany’s Zeitenwende. Darin setzen wir uns auseinander mit der

🌟 @ejisbisa.bsky.social‬ drone articles! 🌟 There are 3 now free to read down below! 🎉 The enduring problem of ‘grey’ drone violence - buff.ly/Ty6wgil Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond - buff.ly/ZjpKQrS How to become a first mover? - buff.ly/KWGx4IC