🚨New First View Article🚨 "‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture" by @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social is now available #OpenAccess. It's a must read, so check it out on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/8O9Jq1S

my article on how #eurovision fans navigate complicity re israel’s participation in the contest is out now in @risjnl.bsky.social relevant if you’re interested in the politics of mega-events, fan consumer practices, and the politics of enjoyment. read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In our latest issue, Nele Kortendiek engages with crisis politics and the "transformative role of field-level practices in global politics." She uses the European migration crisis as a case study. Have a read below! 📘 👉 buff.ly/Zvk7MZj

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - ‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture - https://cup.org/4aQCu1J - @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Between the national and the personal: The interactional production of agency in diplomacy" by Roni Berkowitz , Gadi Heimann & Zohar Kampf is now available online on the RIS website. Have a read! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/nWOedwN

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics" by David K. Johnson is now available #OpenAccess on the RIS website. Have a read! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/UZLW2a6

Where not #OpenAccess the articles in this issue of @risjnl.bsky.social#OpenAccessare free to read until the end of March 2026 - Review of International Studies - Volume 52 - Issue 1 - https://cup.org/4cgwDFF Includes a special forum on Oligarchic Sovereignty

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Reconstructing imperialism: From the new imperialism to the new geopolitics - https://cup.org/4tVt5Pa - David K. Johnson #FirstView

Alvina Hoffmann discusses how the independence of UN special rapporteurs is "rooted in a transnational social space connecting multiple professional identities, resources, and skills." This fascinating article is available in our latest issue! 📘 👉 buff.ly/5DTKhXM

In their video abstract, Shuhong Huo, Inderjeet Parmar, & Ferran Perez Mena discuss the key points from their latest article - "The Ford Foundation and the development of international relations in China". Watch now! 📺 ➡️ buff.ly/DQ9jbHo

In our latest issue, Adrian Calmettes & Dominic J. Pfister argue that "business power becomes authority through the gradual diffusion of ideals of global governance that legitimate the leadership of business actors." It's #OpenAccess now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/ECGiID2

Reminder also that our sister journal is also on Bluesky 🦋⬇️

Reminder: a fabulous new issue is free to read right now! ⬇️

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @risjnl.bsky.social - Early adoption of international policy innovations: A theoretical framework – with evidence on business and human rights in Colombia and Ecuador - https://cup.org/4b3kO4q - @highamian.bsky.social#OpenAccess

"How do authoritarian actors navigate the liberal international order, adopting democratic facades without committing to democratic principles?" Federico Salvati engages with this question in our latest issue! Out now, and #OpenAccess 📘 👉 buff.ly/DdO3S1R

Our latest special forum on oligarchic sovereignty now has an issue number! Check out the video introduction and be sure to read to #OpenAccess forum, which poses pertinent questions about tech billionaires in politics. 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/eJJljYc 📺 ➡️ buff.ly/ArwCZ2R

NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social - Review of International Studies - Volume 52 - Issue 1 - https://cup.org/4cgwDFF

In Vol 52(1), Georgina Holmes & Sarah Newnham engage with how "IO survival is predicated on the exploitation of staff, which reveals a chronic structural crisis born out of the UN bureaucracy’s raced and gendered hierarchical composition and complex employment regime." 📘 👉 buff.ly/XLDoVOs

AspIRing scholars fund: fostering the future of IR scholarship 🌟 "The BISA Founders' Fund provided me with the crucial support I needed in the final stages of writing up my thesis" - Julia Carver 🎉 Designed to empower the next generation of ECR's & PhD students 👉 https://ow.ly/zpn050YhXAG

In our latest issue, Ian Higham poses the question: "What explains early adoption of international policy innovations?" Check out his article, where he uses Colombia and Ecuador as comparative cases. Read on our website now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/WpE8J0o

Can member states hide behind IOs, like the #EU, when their policies become contested? 🇪🇺🐐 A joint paper with Bernhard Zangl, Juliane Glovania & Louisa Klein-Bölting investigating this question was just published in the latest issue of the @risjnl.bsky.social #RIS: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Our most read articles this month offer a great look into whats trending in IR. Our latest special forum tops the list! All the top five are also #OpenAccess. 📚➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New @mybisa.bsky.social newsletter! Check out the latest news about RIS, EJIS, and the upcoming conference in Brighton. #BISA2026

In crisis, time is "of the essence". What does that imply for the typically slow production and mobilisation of expert knowledge? Here's a short piece in which I sum up & discuss the argument of my recent @risjnl.bsky.social article on UN rapid response mechanisms:

What is meant by " weaponised legal dependence"? In our latest issue, Nikhil Kalyanpur analyzes this concept using 60 interviews with legal practitioners and case studies from Russia and Kazakhstan. 📘 👉 buff.ly/qAp39lw

In her article in issue 52(1), Juanita Uribe asks about the ways in which private entities become powerful and legitimate within international politics. The entire issue is available online first! 📘➡️ buff.ly/qDzmZVx

NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social - Review of International Studies - Volume 52 - Issue 1 - https://cup.org/4cgwDFF cc @mybisa.bsky.social

Is International Relations imploding from within, forcing scholars to confront Eurocentrism and their own discomfort? This article by @luisebendfeldt.bsky.social, Clifford & Richards reimagines a vulnerable, collaborative, and radically reflexive IR. @risjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S026...

In our latest issue, Florian Rabitz develops a new theoretical framework for explaining cooperative outcomes in the international regulation of technology. It's free to read now on our website! 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/eANRhpY

🎉 Vol 52(1) is out!🎉 The latest issue includes TEN new research articles as well as a special forum on Oligarchic sovereignty! The articles are all free to read this month, so be sure to take a look and enjoy 👇 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/WxL7JlR

#FirstView from @risjnl.bsky.social#FirstView- Great power competition for global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI): Reconstructing AI narratives of the United States, China, and the European Union - https://cup.org/4tyOgX6 - Jakob Landwehr-Matlé, Kai Oppermann & Daniel Lambach

❓ Why should IR care about heritage?❓ In our upcoming special issue, authors engage with heritage politics around the world. SI editors Elif Kalaycioglu and Jelena Subotić tell us why this is important in a recent @MyBISA.bsky.social blog ⤵️ buff.ly/Aam85Gz

#FirstView from @risjnl.bsky.social - Locating agency in normative change: Bohuslav Ečer, the UNWCC, and individual criminal responsibility for aggression - https://cup.org/4qwtFQK - @adamblerner.bsky.social#FirstView& Jessie Barton Hronešová

🚨New Article🚨 "Great power competition for global leadership in artificial intelligence (AI): Reconstructing AI narratives of the United States, China, and the European Union" by Jakob Landwehr-Matlé, Kai Oppermann & Daniel Lambach is now online!! ⤵️ buff.ly/ykAHKqm

Are you interested in peer-reviewing for RIS? Check out some FAQs put together by @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org on best practices for reviewing articles 👇 buff.ly/E9B71qG

Have you registered for #ISA2026? RIS has put together a few panels for the week. The first is: "Who Owns the Future? Technology Oligarchs and the New Map of Power." #ISA2026

🎧We had a fantastic year in 2025 for our podcast! 🎧 Dr. Seb Kaempf spoke to editors and RIS authors about some of the most pressing issues of our time. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts or online here ➡️ buff.ly/68NlHwz

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Locating agency in normative change: Bohuslav Ečer, the UNWCC, and individual criminal responsibility for aggression" by Adam B. Lerner & Jessie Barton Hronešová is now available on our website! Have a read ⤵️ buff.ly/QMxTNcS

Bahar Rumelili and Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm discuss their new article, 'Feminising diplomatic work: Driving devaluation?' courtesy of @mybisa.bsky.social #GI5051 #GI5052 #GI7037

At RIS we are happy to offer video abstracts to our authors as a chance to publicize work in a different format! Check out the latest article by Bahar Rumelili & Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm: "Feminising diplomatic work: Driving devaluation?" buff.ly/6eERBrd

We want to see you at the BISA, EJIS, RIS reception at #ISA2026!

Thanks to our 2000 followers on LinkedIn! The social media landscape is changing, but we are happy to be growing our presence on LinkedIn to share your fantastic research. Follow Us ➡️ buff.ly/Qrbotfu

BISA, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Security reception #ISA2026 🎉 Join us in Ohio as we showcase our 2 journals along with Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR 🌟 Register 👉 https://ow.ly/o7rC50Y9k4b #BISAISA26 International Studies Association

RIS has over a dozen special collections on our website. These collections show the breadth of research in our journal, and they are put together by excellent scholars around the world. A great resource for students! buff.ly/McqAzI5

Did you know that RIS is published by Cambridge University Press? They are also on Bluesky 🦋 be sure to give them a follow: @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Follow our sister journal, @ejisbisa.bsky.social as well!

Why cultural heritage? The co-editor Elif Kalaycioglu of our latest special issue spoke with us about the goals of the issue, its origins, and the ways cultural heritage interacts with politics worldwide. 📺 ➡️ buff.ly/huBZSz8

Post-Doctoral Fellow Alice Engelhard Publishes Article in Review of International Studies titled “Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders”. Congratulations, Dr. Engelhard! politicalscience.jhu.edu/2026/02/02/p... @risjnl.bsky.social

🚨New First View Article🚨 "(UN)frozen in time: Temporal politics, UN peacekeeping, and the Gaza exception" by Margot Tudor is now available #OpenAccess on the RIS website. Have a read! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/RHN8M7Y

We've had a fantastic tranche of new articles published in RIS in the past couple of weeks - and most are #OpenAccess. Take a look ⤵️ buff.ly/eax8jo9

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Feminising diplomatic work: Driving devaluation?" by Bahar Rumelili & Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm is now available #OpenAccess! Be sure to also check out their video abstract on our website. 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/Tt8dPLC