The cover of the "European Journal of International Security" with the hashtag #OpenAccess visible on the top right corner.
NEW ISSUE from @ejisbisa.bsky.social -
European Journal of International Security - Volume 11 - Issue 2 - May 2026 - https://cup.org/4m1e76Q
#OpenAccess
🇩🇰 Top read: "The dramaturgy of the Danish intelligence scandal" by Kira Vrist Rønn & Nadja Kirchhoff Hestehave.
👉 Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Map or mirror? Doctrine and military transformation
New research by Nisser argues that doctrine’s best role is to act as a catalyst for debate, not as a top-down driver of change. Transformation happens through professional friction.
Practice leads; the manual follows.
A short doctrine 🧵
All ten of our articles are freely available now: @ejisbisa.bsky.social. All new work on politicized captivity from @toddhall.bsky.social @daniellegilbert.bsky.social @minseonku.bsky.social @rogerpetersen1.bsky.social @profgustafsson.bsky.social Jade McGlynn, Simon Koschut, Barak Kushner,
🪖 NEW: "Beyond the manual: Doctrine’s role in military transformation reconsidered" by John Nisser (@forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social).
Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
...these periodisations’ claims are less persuasive than they first appear. First, space infrastructures have been an arena for the concentration of power among multiple ‘space system builders’ during and after the Cold War, rather than outer space suddenly being democratised beyond only two superpowers after 1991. Second, the global space economy remains reliant on state or public spending, undermining hyperbolic claims of a transformative commercial revolution in space at the expense of the state. Finally, Earth orbit has always engendered a risk of warfare ever since space began to be used for military and economic infrastructure, rather than the 2020s heralding a dramatic end to a sanctuary from possible destruction.
With Artemis and space exploration in the news, there'll be a lot of hyperbolic coverage about a new space age of some kind happening. I picked apart arguments over new eras in outer space in my latest research paper with @ejisbisa.bsky.social Open access link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚀🚨 NEW ISSUE 🚨💫
European Journal of International Security
Volume 11 - Issue 2 - May 2026
📚👉 Out now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@mybisa.bsky.social
We published FOUR new research articles in March and also took part in #ISA2026 with our partners @ejisbisa.bsky.social and @mybisa.bsky.social. We sponsored two panels about our latest issues.
Reminder that ALL our latest articles are online first: buff.ly/9uj6xnX
💫 'Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home' from @laurenrprather.bsky.social & @laurenrprather.bsky.social is the 10th article from our special issue on kidnapping!
👉 Read, for free, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🌎🚀 NEW: "Cognitive warfare: Some sceptical observations from general strategic theory and affective science" from @samzil.bsky.social.
📚👉 Read in full here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Enjoyed my trip to the @isanet.bsky.social annual conference in Columbus, OH. Very happy to represent the @ejisbisa.bsky.social as an Associate Editor at the @mybisa.bsky.social reception on Sunday.
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#ISA2026 - you can follow these Cambridge journals on Blue Sky -
European Journal of International Security
@ejisbisa.bsky.social
International Organization
@iojournal.bsky.social
International Theory
@internatltheory.bsky.social
Review of International Studies
@risjnl.bsky.social
The 10th article from our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! In the article, Danielle Gilbert and Lauren Prather explore determinants of support for hostage recovery among the American public. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
Great piece on #astropolitics in @ejisbisa.bsky.social by @bleddb.bsky.social
(I declare an interest for having read a draft!)
Title: The perils of periodising astropolitics: Space security and the system builders Author: Bleddyn E. Bowen, Durham University Abstract: Space systems are becoming an ever more important part of international security capabilities and practices. However, problematic interpretations of the Space Age are taking root in practitioner and academic circles along the contours of three sequential Space Ages. This article develops an original critique of these periodisations by applying a large technical systems approach and empirical research. It emphasises the role of space system builders and the prevalence of paradoxes in analysing space infrastructure as a method for critiquing three claims over the sweeping waves of democratisation, commercialisation, and militarisation in outer space that the periodisations make. This article proposes an alternative periodisation of a singular Global Space Age from 1957 that advances the counter-arguments that: first, power remains concentrated to a handful of space system builders rather than democratised to the many; second, that the space economy still relies on the state rather than being transferred to the private sector; and third, that the claims of sanctuary in space today ignore the spectre of space warfare that has long stalked space infrastructure. The infrastructural Global Space Age framing is offered as a useful materialist foundation for building bridges between international security, infrastructural technologies, and space security scholarship.
WHIGS IN SPACE! Or why democratisation, commercialisation, and militarisation rhetoric about space is wrong.
Very happy to see my new research article published with @ejisbisa.bsky.social!
The Perils of periodising astropolitics: space security and the system builders
@sgiadurham.bsky.social
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#ISA2026 - you can stay up to date and follow these @mybisa.bsky.social journals on Blue Sky -
Review of International Studies
@risjnl.bsky.social
European Journal of International Security
@ejisbisa.bsky.social
#BISAatISA
#ISA2026 attendees: be sure to check out the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org booth in the exhibition hall to get a copy of RIS and @ejisbisa.bsky.social 🥳
RIS and @mybisa.bsky.social will be at #ISA2026 next week! Stop by on Wednesday at 4pm for a Meet the Editors panel with our editor Maria Mälksoo.
🚀🇷🇺 "Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories" by @drjademcglynn.bsky.social & Anastasiia Romaniuk is our article of the month!
📚👉 Read, for free, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Those of you traveling to #ISA2026: do you have your airplane reading material? We have you covered with our first view articles, which range from Eurovision to peacekeeping. Check them out on our website 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Join us on Sunday in Ohio for our BISA, Review of International Studies & European Journal of International Security #ISA2026 reception 🎉
Register 👉 https://ow.ly/o7rC50Y9k4b
#BISAISA26 International Studies Association
#InternationalStudies #InternationalRelations #AcademicConference
The 9th article from our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! Nick Ackert and @rjsamuels.bsky.social show how leaders manipulate captivity-related emotions, but often lose control over them. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
🌎 NEW: "Kidnapping politics: The sorcerer’s apprentice effect", from Nick Ackert and @rjsamuels.bsky.social, looks at how leaders manipulate public emotions during kidnapping crises to advance political goals - and how it can become a trap.
📚👉 Read more here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🇯🇵🚀🇨🇳 NEW: "Political captives in East Asia: Thought reform and national security" from Barak Kushner is this week's must-read article.
📚👉 More here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The BISA at ISA hub is now online! We want to see you at the BISA sponsored panels and be sure to also check out the articles we've made free to read until the conference. the BISA/RIS/EJIS reception will be on day one of the conference! 🍻
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🚀 "Capturing the minds: The role of child deportation in maintaining Russian authority over Ukraine’s occupied territories" by @drjademcglynn.bsky.social & Anastasiia Romaniuk is the eighth article of our special issue on kidnapping - and OUT NOW:
🇺🇦 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The 8th article from our special issue on captivity passions is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social! Jade McGlynn and Anastasiia Romanyuk show how Russia's child deportations seek to pressure local families, disrupt Ukrainian identity and facilitate demographic restructuring. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
🍸 Will you be at #ISA2026? We hope to see you at the BISA, RIS, and EJIS drinks reception on Sunday 22 March at 7.15-8.15pm at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Columbus!
Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/browse-...
The 7th article in our special issue ‘Kidnapping politics: Captivity passions and international security’ is out in @ejisbisa.bsky.social. Barak Kushner explores how authoritarian states in 20th-century East Asia sought to reeducate captives for security reasons. doi.org/10.1017/eis....
A great opportunity: the winner of BISA Global Nuclear Order Working Group's first Paper Prize for Early Career Researchers will receive a *guaranteed* peer review at EJIS! 🚀