ICYMI: Our Call For Special Issue Proposals is now LIVE 🎉 🎉 We'll be accepting proposals for the next special issue (Volume 53) until the beginning of February. Check out the guidelines and submit here 👇 buff.ly/U8yZDVF

📅 Monthly Review 📅 We published EIGHT new research articles in December and a special forum on oligarchic sovereignty. It was a prolific month and a perfect way to cap the end of the year! Remember that ALL our articles are free to read for BISA members, & many are #OpenAccess ⤵️ buff.ly/44lDOA5

Happy New Year also from the Review of International Studies!

Deadline to apply for the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper & Review of International Studies Prize is TODAY! 🏆 Aimed at supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work! 🌟 Do not miss out on this amazing opportunity! 👉 https://ow.ly/N0sY50XQx9f

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Performative socialization in world politics" by İsmail Yaylacı is now available online first, just in time for the New Year! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/sazAcle

Curious about the tech billionaires' claims to sovereignty mean for the international order? Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!

"Dirty Hands, Savage Enemies, and Bad Apples", with @risjnl.bsky.social. We systematically detailed and critiqued war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. t.co/bl2kAqifBY

📣 DEADLINE TOMORROW 📣 We still accepting submissions for the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars annual prize, which is a collaboration between RIS and the BISA CPD working group! Find out more ⤵️ buff.ly/3TsqMig

🚨 Our new special forum is now online! 🚨 Check out this video with forum editor @maharafiatal.bsky.social about the inspiration for this forum on oligarchic sovereignty: technology and the future of global order. 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/DZ5unBk 📺 ➡️ buff.ly/BEyxt2M

What is "oligarchic sovereignty" and can it explain the tech bro seizure of the US government and its effects on the world? I discuss with some very thoughtful colleagues here: cup.org/3KZzRly Free to read as a Christmas gift to you all:

The first quarter of the 21st century is almost over! Our final issue of 2000 asked the question: "How might we live?" It is a fascinating time capsule to what IR scholars expected for the century. Free to Access now! ⤵️ buff.ly/XzHT1PQ

2025 is coming to a close, and we have published some fantastic articles this year! Here is a look at our most read articles in December: 📚 ➡️ buff.ly/lUELLE9

Our forum on oligarchic sovereignty is now available from @risjnl.bsky.social! And for free, thanks to the University of Glasgow. A very affordable holiday gift for anyone in your life trying to better understand our new world of tech billionaires' massive wealth and political power.

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order - https://cup.org/3KZzRly - @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social, @sethschindler.bsky.social#OpenAccess Sarah Logan et al

❄️ REMINDER: we are taking a short break over the holidays! ❄️ We are still accepting submissions, but the journal offices and team will break from 22 December, 2025 – 5 January, 2026. Responses and decisions may be delayed until the new year.

📣 One week Left! 📣 We still accepting submissions for the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2026, which is a collaboration between RIS and the BISA CPD working group! Find out more ⤵️ buff.ly/3TsqMig

🎧 Excellent way to begin the week! 🎧

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties" by Federica Caso is now available #OpenAccess! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/4h9qUla

'Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations' Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR 🌟 Review of International Studies and video abstract by Gabriella Colello 🎉 Find both the video and full article here 👉 https://ow.ly/CUpj50XM8YT

❄️ We are taking a short break over the holidays! ❄️ We are still accepting submissions, but the journal offices and team will break from 22 December, 2025 – 5 January, 2026. Responses and decisions may be delayed until the new year.

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Pakistani conflictual world-making in international politics: The Afghan–Soviet War, Cold War counter-insurgency, and the struggles for decolonisation" by Asad Zaidi is now available #OpenAccess! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/XzeB38S

Submit your proposals to Review of International Studies for a new special issue! 🎉 To be published in a 2027 special edition the deadline to submit is 3 Feb 2026 🌟 Find out more information on submissions 👉 https://ow.ly/JfzH50XGS1e Seb Kaempf Andy Hom Dahlia Simangan

New Review of International Studies article and article summary out now! 🌟 Entitled 'World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige' by Elif Kalaycioglu 🌎 Find the full article at this DOI: https://ow.ly/YZOH50XLpSZ And Elif's written summary here: https://ow.ly/r8Bl50XLpSY

📣 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2026 📣 We still accepting submissions for this annual prize, which is a collaboration between RIS and the BISA CPD working group! Find out more ⤵️ buff.ly/3TsqMig

Remember to check out Thomas Gregory's new Review of International Studies editors selection 🌟 Entitled 'Restraining War' ft Moya Lloyd, Joanna Tidy, Maja Zehfuss and more! 📚 All free to read until end of Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/a0PA50XGJ2f Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR

We are entering the 2nd quarter of the 21st century! We were curious what IR scholars predicted for this century, so we had a look in our archives. Check out the 2000 special issue "How Might We Live? Global Ethics in a New Century." buff.ly/pkz9bJB

Just released! Review of International Studies podcast - ep. six 🎉 Talking to Seb Kaempf, Thomas Gregory discusses his selection entitled Restraining War trying to grapple with the phenomenon of regulating war 🌎 Listen to the episode here! 👉 https://ow.ly/HPnf50XK6ap

ICYMI: Our Call For Special Issue Proposals is now LIVE 🎉 🎉 We'll be accepting proposals for the next special issue (Volume 53) until the beginning of February. Check out the guidelines and submit here 👇 buff.ly/U8yZDVF

Do you have a short and sweet commute? We have a podcast for you! Find the RIS podcast wherever you get your podcasts and listen in for a 20-30 minute chat on the latest IR research 🤓

Review of International Studies podcast - ep. five 🎉 In this ep Seb Kaempf talks to Professor Poppy S. Winanti about her editors selection exploring 'global environmental issues' to foster conversations about some of the most pressing issues of our time🌳 Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/tjP750XJyGZ

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe" by Bart-Jan Zandee & Salvador Santino Regilme is now available #OpenAccess! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/bENE8rz

We look forward to joining BISA at #ISA2026! Stay tuned for information about meet the editors sessions and the BISA reception in Columbus 👇

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Why did the Netherlands apologize? Slavery, justice, and the political conditions of state apologies in Europe - https://cup.org/4pA0jB9 - Bart-Jan Zandee & @ssregilme.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Here, @augustdanielson.bsky.social and @elsahedling.bsky.social study how states use visual diplomacy to project their interests at (virtual) summit meetings. @risjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#ICYMI: We have a new podcast episode! Our editor Seb Kaempf sat down with Katrina Lee-Koo to talk about her special collection on the 25th anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. Have a listen, and read her collection! 📚 buff.ly/Y9dhXiI 🎧 buff.ly/fvjcRFh

The Review of International Studies has opened a call for special issue proposals 🌟 Inviting proposals to be published in a 2027 special edition 🎉 Deadline to submit: 3 Feb 2026 📚 Find out more information here 👉 https://ow.ly/JfzH50XGS1e Seb Kaempf Andy Hom Dahlia Simangan

This year our editorial team and editorial board have put together some fantastic special collections, all of which are available on our website! We want to hear from you: what kinds of special collections would you like to see? ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Saprobic politics: Decomposing colonial cosmologies in international relations - https://cup.org/4iTQ2NV - Gabriella Colello #FirstView

We have a bumper crop of podcast episodes to catch up on, including this latest one with Dr. Katrina Lee-Koo about the 25th anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda! 🎧👉 buff.ly/fvjcRFh

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Fan club world politics: Reinterpreting international relations beyond the state" by Thomas Davies is now available #OpenAccess! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/a39cvfK

New @mybisa.bsky.social newsletter dropped! check it out for our latest special collection, the latest RIS research, and reflections on #BISA50. Remember that BISA members also get free access to RIS and our sister journal @ejisbisa.bsky.social 🥳

New Review of International Studies editors selection out now w Thomas Gregory 🎉 Looking at 'Restraining War' ft Moya Lloyd, Joanna Tidy, Maja Zehfuss and more! 📚 Free to read until end of Feb where not #openaccess 👉 https://ow.ly/a0PA50XGJ2f Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR

'Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question' Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR 🌟 A new Review of International Studies article and video abstract by Caroline Dunton 🌎 Find here 👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210525101514

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My latest article - on the international relations of fan clubs - has just been published online in @risjnl.bsky.social

❓ 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

📆 Mark your calendars! 📆

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Fan club world politics: Reinterpreting international relations beyond the state - https://cup.org/3MOhZKL - Thomas Davies #FirstView

Do you have an original idea for a special issue? We want to hear from you! The RIS call for special issues for 2027 is now open! Find out more below ⤵️ buff.ly/HkRsObn