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

Attention UK-based Politics and International studies UG students - Deadline for this to Today!

Congrats to Ellie Gore on their publication of this fantastic article: 'Colonial afterlives in the global cocoa supply chain: sharecropping, labour exploitation, and gendered (re)production' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

new at @ripejournal.bsky.social Subordinated integration and political waves in the 21st century Latin America www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are accepting special issue proposals! We welcome proposals relating to any area of global and international studies as well as interdisciplinary scholarship. For more info, contact us or follow the link below 👇 1. [email protected] 2. www.tandfonline.com/action/journ...

Meet our new BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group working group convenors! 🎉 Leah de Haan, Uygar Baspehlivan Dr Natalie Jester and Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ will be live on zoom to answer questions as they continue to establish the WG! 🌟 Register! 👉 https://ow.ly/Vw9h50Xifp8

🏆 Apply now to our new Africa and International Studies ECR and Review of International Studies prize! 🏆 Looking for the best early-career researcher paper 🎉 Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/gwZv50XgLZ4 @julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias

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

A year in working groups - 2024/25 with BISA 🌟 Come and read our article describing what all of our amazing working groups have been up to in the last academic year - we are extremely grateful to the conveners who are all volunteers 🎉 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/year-wo...

Could at least two of you be the next BISA Foreign Policy WG convener team - we are looking for a team of at least two conveners to join! 🎉 Interested? Please send an expression of interest to [email protected] by 30 September 🌟 @julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias Sharad Joshi

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures, by @justinalger.bsky.social, Kate J. Neville & @atterbalac.bsky.social

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Join the @BISAPGN Committee for 2025-2026! 🎉 The deadline has been extended to 23 Sept so get your nominations in now!🌟 Find out more 👉 buff.ly/YzMZfRu @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @bisa-global-health.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just published - our #BISA2025 conference video featuring the best highlights 🎉 We would love you to watch it - spot yourself down below! 🌟 👉 buff.ly/znA2PGP @julietdryden.bsky.social @peternewell.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @bleiker.bsky.social @debbielisle.bsky.social

Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa, by @drelisagambino.bsky.social and Costanza Franceschini

'Geographies of escalation - Disputes on territory, sovereignty and control in an ever-changing international system' w/ @glodesblum.bsky.social @unicampoficial.bsky.social🌎 25 Sept on zoom 💻 Sign up now for free 👉 buff.ly/ah7pOPw @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

BISA Aspiring Scholars Fund fostering future of IR scholarship🌟 "This empowered me to successfully complete my PhD thesis, which brought out the voices of an oppressed group of women in the Global South" @arunisamarakoon.bsky.social Donate now 👉 buff.ly/bQxV1FA @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

Reminder: the pre-registration deadline for accepted participants for the ISA-BISA workshops is TOMORROW! 🚨 Make sure you register now! 🌎 Info here 👉 buff.ly/mhwWR8k @bisawarstudies.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

Out now- our interview with @acadsocsciences.bsky.social about our funded EDI initiative! 🌟 Thanks to funding from @acadsocsciences.bsky.social & ESRC we have been improving our website accessibility - details found in the Q&A down below 🎉 buff.ly/Kv2Ac7c @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine, by Luis Aue

The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance, by Vanessa Endrejat, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Arjen van der Heide

BISA and @isanet.bsky.social joint conference programme out now! 🌟 For all information about the workshops and the programme use the link down below - can't wait to see you all there in October 🎉 Find all information here 👉 buff.ly/0wNopP4 @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social

Thrilled to publish RIPE 32:4 ahead of schedule and summer vacations, as it contains another brilliant special issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance, edited by Eugénia C. Heldt and Susan Park. Most articles are open access! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrip20/3...

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social

RIPE Editor @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social reflects on the history of IPEG at @mybisa.bsky.social - which was often entwined with the growth and development of our journal.

🌟 Saba Joshi was awarded a BISA ECR Research Grant to consolidate her book project: 'Gender and land-use change in South and Southeast Asian resource frontiers' - examining gender & agrarian resistance in Cambodia & India 📚 Read here 👉 buff.ly/uY1SU7W @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

New BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives 💸 'IPEG turns 54!' with @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social looking back at @ipegbisa.bsky.social history 🌟 "It has offered a fortifying mix of intellectual home and social support for the best part of 25 years” - Stuart Shields Read here -

@bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social Prize nominations 🌎 Honouring the best environment or climate politics postgraduate / early-career paper presented at the BISA Annual conference 📝 Nominations close - 16 August 2025 🌟 Nominate now! - buff.ly/tkk1lny @ckweatherill.bsky.social @notesnthemargin.bsky.social

The numbers are stark: 1.6 million children in 450,000 families are now affected. Eight years on from its introduction, 1 in 9 children across the UK is living under the two-child limit. 🧵 3/3 Read the full briefing 👇 cpag.org.uk/news/two-chi...

Very happy to have this article out with RIPE: Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our 2025 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize joint winners were @tonihaastrup.bsky.social Andreja Zevnik & @meghanetinsley.bsky.social and @jessnorthey.bsky.social 🎉 Awarded for 'making significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline' 🌟 Congratulations! 👉 buff.ly/OTk1esS

BISA, partnered with @unisouthampton.bsky.social politics department launched their first Methods Summer School 🌟 Michael Mo who was provided with BISA bursaries to attend told us his valuable takeaways and highlights from the course 🎉 read more here 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/met...

Another permanent job in my department for an assistant prof in International Organisations (remit of the position also includes non-governmental organisations and regional organisations) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...

Job! Assistant Prof in IR (Conflict & Security) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...

The deadline to submit your @ipegbisa.bsky.social Book Prize 2025 nominations is TODAY at 5pm! 💵 Make sure you get them in before the deadline - read more about the prize below 👇 www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @dasilvapp.bsky.social

🌟 BISA Aspiring Scholars Fund 🌟 'Fostering the future of International Relations scholarship' by supporting research 🎉 "This is an assistance I will forever cherish." - Promise Frank Ejiofor to donate 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/give/donate @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

New report from @instituteforgovernment.org.uk out today - social care is having to be rationed by local authorities in areas of high demand www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The first queer political economy piece to make it into RIPE! Congratulations Olympia Burchiellaro: Making Nairobi ‘open for business’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Come and work with me on this fantastic project www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM406/k...

With @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social & @uaces.bsky.social we have written an open letter to the UK Government on the future of #InternationalStudies & funding pressures in #highereducation Read here: buff.ly/fCdW7WK... @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social‬ @rosegann.bsky.social‬ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social‬

job! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

‘Arrives before father’s day’

After our open letter with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social and @uaces.bsky.social to the UK Government we have now created an MP template for you to contact your local MP and detailed how BISA is responding! 🌟 find it here - buff.ly/oKRVLDm @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

It's @mybisa.bsky.social's 50th anniversary this year! We want to hear about your first BISA. The RIS team will be telling you about our experiences as well 👇 #MyFirstBISA #BISA2025

We have joined with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social and @uaces.bsky.social to write an open letter to the UK Government on the future of #InternationalStudies & funding pressures in #highereducation Read it at: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/open-le... @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

This joint workshop, we’ve been coordinating with the University of Birmingham’s Asia Research Group, promises to be an insightful and interesting academic exploration of the region; the first of many such joint academic events! Check out more details by following the link below!