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

First up we have our social media coordinator, Lauren Rogers! BISA is a great conference for early career scholars to test out new work and get feedback. Lauren's paper was later published in our sister journal, @ejisbisa.bsky.social. 📄 👉 buff.ly/3cfMh8d

Why role conceptions matter when politicians want to pull the military into problematic roles @ejisbisa.bsky.social article by Chiara Ruffa and me from 2022 It's open access, so get your free download www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #CivMilSky

🚀📚 From the archives: "Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond: Towards analysis and assessment in context" from James Michael Page & John Williams. 👉 Read it, open access, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📌Our new #Empathy paper in 2 graphs📌 1️⃣How accurate are Brits at recognising #refugee emotions, what we call Intersubjective Empathy? 2️⃣How is this ability to accurately 'read' the Other linked to a sense of duty to help? 👇Read our full Open Access Paper👇

📚 From the archives: "How to become a first mover? Mechanisms of military innovation and the development of drones" from Moritz Weiss (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social). We've opened up access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

💫📚 New and open access: '‘Intersubjective Empathy’ and the desecuritisation of migration: Assessing public attitudes and support for refugees in the UK' from Dimitris Skleparis, Georgios Karyotis, and‪ @andrewrmcneill.bsky.social. 👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Not long until BISA's 50th anniversary conference! Highlights include: 🌟 Publishing in War and Security Studies 🌟 Keynote speech: Belfast Days: Teaching War - Living Peace, 1972-1995 🌟 An opportunity to meet our editors... 👀 conference.bisa.ac.uk/featured-eve...

🌏 Do small countries rope their powerful allies into wars? That's the question Andris Banka asks of the Baltic republics and USA. Read this fascinating, open access article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 New and open access: "Dangerous allies? Small states and great power entrapment risks" from Andris Banka. 📖👉 Read in full here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There are - to be fair - plenty of better ways to spend your day than reading our article. But since most of you are just doomscrolling Bluesky anyway, you might as well give it a read ⬇️

The British International Studies Association is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and we are here to celebrate! BISA membership gets you free access to RIS and our sister journal @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Learn more about @MYBISA.bsky.social 👇 buff.ly/ei2UJUC

Happy to announce that our manuscript titled "'If I could turn back time’: Temporal Security Narratives, Ontological Disruption and Germany’s Zeitenwende, co-authored by @malteriemann.bsky.social and myself, has been accepted for publication in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Watch this space.

Name a better way to spend today than reading "Fighting for their country: How proximate conflict shapes citizens’ attitudes" from @alexsorg.bsky.social, @wolfgangwagner.bsky.social, and @profonderco.bsky.social. Freshly published and open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨🚀 Brand new and open access: "Imaginaries and infrastructures of platform security" from Marieke de Goede (@mdgoede.bsky.social). 👉 Read more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Out now! The introduction to our Special Issue on ‘South-South security cooperation and the (re)making of global security governance’ (with MM Mueller) is now out @ejisbisa.bsky.social Available #openaccess at: doi.org/10.1017/eis.... Papers of the special issue out (so far) include 👇

🇹🇷🌎 Must-read: "A relational approach to Turkey’s security engagement with African states" by Nebahat Tanrıverdi. 👉 Free to read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨🚀 "South–South cooperation: What can we learn from South–South security cooperation?" from Peter Kragelund. New, open access, and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 New in EJIS: "South–South Security Cooperation and the (Re)Making of Global Security Governance" by Tobias Berger & Markus-Michael Müller. 🔗 Open access and available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇺🇦 'Friends in need, friends indeed? Explaining variation in military support to Ukraine' from Justin Massie and Barbora Tallová. 👉 Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇵🇱🇺🇦 New from EJIS: 'Rooted in identity, aimed at security: Polish politics towards Ukraine and its ontological security foundation' from Ryszard Szynowski and Piotr Gil. 👉 Read in full: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...