EU flags waving in front of the European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium.
Join BISA UGN, Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), his Excellency Pedro Serrano, Hussein Kassim, Jannike Wachowiak and Professor George Christou for 'The future of EU-UK relations' on 29 April ๐
Exploring this complex partnershipip ๐ https://ow.ly/hvi050YxV9Y
Juanita Elias
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Last chance to sign up and join Critical Military Studies WG at BISA & BISA Gendering IR Working Group for a panel discussion of Julia Welland's new book! ๐
'Pleasure and depletion in contemporary militarism' ๐
๐ https://ow.ly/ujUY50YB1Tu
Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS)
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Join Environment and Climate Politics Working Group & Joanne Yao TOMORROW for their earth day keynote exploring the abstracted view of earth from above as an integrated whole ๐ณ
'The parts and the whole: 'Earthrise' and the politics of seeing everything from nowhere' ๐
๐ https://ow.ly/nb3j50YAtr5
๐ฃWe are delighted to announce that we have kicked off todays event with @epir-bisa.bsky.social !
๐Today we are joined by Rahul Rao to discuss his book 'The Psychic Lives of Statues'
๐Take a look at the book: www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
Forest with dappled light and text Spotlight Series
New Environment and Climate Politics Working Group spotlight w/ Chris Saltmarsh (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ๐
Join us has he discusses his PHD, environment and climate politics sources he recommends & more! ๐
You can find the full article here ๐ https://ow.ly/aQSw50YMk04
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๐จ Upcoming event w/ BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group ๐จ
'Book talk: Currency of nihilism' w/ Amin Samman whose new book 'Currency of Nihilism' shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dilemmas of nihilism in new ways ๐
Sign up ๐ https://ow.ly/2uCr50YKsxU
'Epistemic inertia in human rights expert bodies: Continuity amid pluralisation' ๐
A new Review of International Studies written summary and article by Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz and Juanita Uribe ๐
Written summary here ๐ https://ow.ly/n1aq50YKsqg
Full article DOI here ๐ https://ow.ly/UjiN50YKsqf
More info: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-co...
Tom Vaughan @carolinapantoliano.bsky.social @seowoohyeok.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
New BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group blog post out now! ๐
Caroline Kuzemko (UK Energy Research Centre) discusses her new free to access book: โClimate Politics: Canโt live with it, canโt mitigate without itโ ๐ณ
You can find her whole blog post here ๐ https://ow.ly/64bv50YJYgk
Round table discussion at a policy lab with the BISA banner in the background
We have just kicked off our very first BISA policy lab - today focussing on Governance and artificial intelligence (AI) ๐
You can find out more about this policy lab and its agenda here ๐ www.bisa.ac.uk/events/polic...
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Our April newsletter is out now! ๐
Including :
๐ Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2026 shortlist announced
๐ฃ New BISA member Nominations for Academy of Social Sciences Fellowships
๐ The latest research from Review of International Studies
Full updates here! ๐ https://ow.ly/5E3K50YJY9P
New @mybisa.bsky.social newsletter in your inbox now! Remember that members of BISA have free access to the RIS archives.
www.bisa.ac.uk/become-a-mem...
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'UK public opinion on security and military spending' ๐ธ
A hybrid roundtable discussing the research of Tom Martin and Francesco Rigoli: two scholars studying public attitudes to security and military spending in the UK ๐
Sign up now to attend online ๐ https://ow.ly/WB2250YIVVF
Elisabeth Schweiger
๐ฃWe are delighted to announce that we have kicked off today's event with @gnobisa.bsky.social!
๐This year's virtual conference is focused on new thinking and new directions for global nuclear politics. Take a look at the programme to see the papers being presented: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
the Earthrise photo
The first Earth Day in 1970 had many inspirations โ Rachel Carsonโs compelling Silent Spring, antiwar student movements across the US, and the devastation of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill โ but one photo is often credited with the emergence of a new global environmental consciousness in the late 1960s. Earthrise was snapped by astronaut Bill Anders as the Apollo 8 spacecraft orbited the moon, and it depicts a blue and white planet floating in the blackness of space. While it highlights earthโs vulnerability to environmental destruction, the picture also showed us a different vision of ourselves. As Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman reflected, โWe were the first humans to see the world in its majestic totalityโฆ this must be what God sees.โ In this Earth Day keynote, Joanne Yao explores the abstracted view of earth from above as an integrated whole and the politics of a whole humanity that this God-like view engendered. From this position, the 1968 moment becomes the culmination of a longer quest to know the earth in its entirety through scientific exploration into the unknown, which was often entangled with histories of colonialism and racialized and gendered exclusions. The keynote will explore the utopian imaginaries this view of earth inspired in how humans could rise above parochial interests to unite as one against the cold nothingness of space, but it also traces the silences and erasures that enabled what Donna Haraway calls the โgod trick of seeing everything from nowhere.โ
A week today!
Earth Day keynote from Joanne Yao: The parts and the whole: 'Earthrise' and the politics of seeing everything from nowhere.
22 April, 11am-12.30pm BST, online.
Make sure you register!
@mybisa.bsky.social
www.bisa.ac.uk/events/parts...
๐New article published!
A new article by Dr Madeleine Le Bourdon (@mlebourdon.bsky.social) and Dr Louise Pears (@louisepears.bsky.social) has been published in @epsjournal.bsky.social
This was based on research funded by @mybisa.bsky.social
Read the article here โฌ๏ธ
tinyurl.com/zz2tevc9
'One cheer for the WTO: Reflections from the field on MC14' ๐
James Scott and Erin Hannah attended WTOโs Ministerial Conference as BISA representatives ๐
Here they provide their reflections on their attendance at the Ministerial Conference in Cameroon ๐
Insights here ๐ https://ow.ly/Uh7q50YIVIC
Have you ever wanted to submit an article to RIS? Here are a few good reasons why to consider this journal โคต๏ธ
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NEW ISSUE from @ejisbisa.bsky.social -
European Journal of International Security - Volume 11 - Issue 2 - May 2026 - https://cup.org/4m1e76Q
#OpenAccess
๐ข ONE WEEK REMINDER!: DPIR seeks to appoint an Associate Professor in International Relations, in association with Nuffield College, to conduct internationally excellent research in the area of International Relations.ย
๐๏ธ CLOSES: Noon (BST) Tue 21 April: https://ow.ly/U5kJ50Yrczb less
รcole Polytechnique at #BISAFCDOModelNATO ๐
Against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions find out what the experience of being part of first French participation in our British Model NATO event was like! ๐
Full article here! ๐ https://ow.ly/3cBZ50YICob
@julietdryden.bsky.social
What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? ๐น ๐
Join us for our next virtual seminar as @aminsamman.bsky.social discusses his new book exploring the nihilistic moods and of contemporary global finance from cryptocurrencies to meme-stocks.
@mybisa.bsky.social
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Join us this week at University of St Andrews with BISA UGN ๐
'The state of the world' ๐
Making sense of the world with Jo Sharp ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Anthony Salamone ๐
Sign up now ๐ https://ow.ly/uXaH50YFrRM
Evie Aspinall British Foreign Policy Group @julietdryden.bsky.social
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๐จ Last chance ๐จ
Join Global Nuclear Order BISA Working Group tomorrow! ๐
'New thinking and new directions for global nuclear politics' w/ Peter Rautenbach, Laura Considine & more addressing questions on core themes of AI in nuclear arms control & deterrence ๐
๐ https://ow.ly/MILW50YzxGQ
๐ฃ IR 101 Under Stress: Theory and Practice at Odds ๐ฃ
With European International Studies Association (EISA) and International Studies Association this roundtable asks what IRโs classical paradigms still offer to contemporary decision-makers ๐
Register now! ๐ https://ow.ly/Touj50YICmq
Paul Poast
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Alexander Borum;s April list of IR career starters! ๐
Inc: OECD Deutsche Gesellschaft fรผr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Doctors Without Borders / Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres (MSF), Council on Foreign Relations, Green Climate Fund & moreโผ๏ธ
Get applying today! ๐ https://ow.ly/OZbL50YIb2h
New blog!
Leaning into this difficult political moment for climate mitigation by Caroline Kuzemko / @cisk.bsky.social
In this blog, Caroline talks us through the arguments of her new book, 'Climate Politics: Canโt live with it, canโt mitigate without it'.
www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/lea...
The Mexican flag majestically waves against a clear blue sky, showcasing national pride and identity.
New Review of International Studies article from Natalia Saltalamacchia out now! ๐
'Migration diplomacy in MexicoโUnited States relations: Decision-making under asymmetric structures' ๐
Full article and video abstract ๐ https://ow.ly/MUqj50YGQFe
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
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'The inescapable future of AI-enabled security: Imagining future terrorism and counterterrorism in UN technocratic governance' ๐
New Review of International Studies article and video abstract by Alice Martini! ๐
Full article and video abstract here ๐
https://ow.ly/UrcW50YGQs1
๐จ Our BISA Election nominations deadline is TODAY ๐จ
We have 4 new trustee positions up for election to the BISA Executive Committee ๐
One trustee will also take responsibility as BISA Academic Freedom lead ๐
Do not miss out! ๐ https://ow.ly/9PR850YAtkh
@julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias