Review of International Studies serves the needs of scholars in international relations and related fields such as politics, history, law, and sociology.

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🎉Volume 52(4) is out! 🎉 Our latest issue includes TEN new research articles which speak to questions of piracy, norms, memory and more . These articles are all free to read now, so be sure to check them out! 📚️ 👉 buff.ly/gfZsbGx
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An important, early step towards grappling with generative AI in a more reflective and open manner through scholarship and academic publishing
Today, 35 international journals joined an initiative supprting Intellectual Authorship over Artificial intelligence. Read statement and see our fellow signatories here iaoverai.org Authors can find our policy on AI here: tinyurl.com/3ysaa9mf @MYBISA @EdinburghPIR
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Today, 35 international journals joined an initiative supprting Intellectual Authorship over Artificial intelligence. Read statement and see our fellow signatories here iaoverai.org Authors can find our policy on AI here: tinyurl.com/3ysaa9mf @MYBISA @EdinburghPIR
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Our 2027 virtual conference #VirtualBISA2027 draft programme is out - check your emails! 🎉 Registration is open and we cannot wait to see you online! 🌟 All information here! 👉 ow.ly/se5x50ZClvq @SimonRushton8 @Jamiejhagen @JulietDryden
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Out open access in latest Sep 2026 issue of @RISjnl, my paper with @mariahtthornton proposing "Cartographic Imaginaries" as a framework revealing systematic analytical dynamics of representation, nationalism & diaspora, with #Kashmir & #Taiwan as cases. Our work connects imp current #IR concerns re critiques of imperial cartography, impact of rising powers on global order dynamics & transnational governance of diaspora. #India #China #cartography cambridge.org/core/journals/… @MYBISA
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Quick reminder that our new issue is still available to read for free! 📚️ 👉 buff.ly/gfZsbGx
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Are you interested in the latest IR research? Be sure to keep up to date with the latest first-view articles from RIS! ➡️ buff.ly/IJSAumA
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🚨New First View Article🚨 "Is all decolonialism metaphorical? On the aesthetics of decolonizing humanitarian futures" by Jonathan Austin is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/rVaajPx
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🚨New First View Article🚨 "Towards critical literacies of the flesh: Disclosing and refusing colonial disposability" by Louiza Odysseos is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/OxuLDIy
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How did certain global atrocities come to be recognized as international crimes, while others did not? In our latest issue, Suwita Hani Randhawa examines this puzzle across four historic periods in the 20th century. 📚 👉 buff.ly/9SyK28Q
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🚨New First View Article🚨 "War should hurt: Advancing a feminist ethics of care within and beyond drone warfare" by Lindsay C. Clark is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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In issue 52(4), Ali Al Youha "describes how and when political and ideational shifts in the Gulf allowed sovereignty to manifest into its present dynastic form." The whole issue is free to read now! 📚 👉 buff.ly/sLWddek
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🚨New First View Article🚨 "Populist realism, civilizationalism, and the right: On the intellectual history of contemporary US foreign policy" by Jean-Francois Drolet is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/m30UlRi
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🚨New First View Article🚨 "Sowing the seeds of exploitation: colonial statecraft and racial capitalism at Britain’s agricultural border" by Erica Consterdine is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/EQGCAhp
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In our latest issue, Anna Plunkett & Oisín Tansey examine the politics of "norm contestation around the anti-coup norm by considering the international response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar." This article is free to read now! buff.ly/VswEluj
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In our latest issue, Cornelia Baciu engages with and advances norm expressivism frameworks in criminal justice research. She uses the case of rhetoric at the UN about Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It's free to read on our website now! 👉 buff.ly/EsE9xZ5
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In our latest issue, Lee Jarvis engages with the "everyday (re)production of international relations through the contingent storying of global politics". He uses the children's game, Top Trumps, as empirics. Free to read now! buff.ly/VLJMMOZ
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Reminder that we have a fantastic new issue out! The articles here are free to read until the end of the month, so please take a look. 📚️ 👉 buff.ly/gfZsbGx
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In volume 52(4), Christopher Elliott1, Neil Christopher Renic and Jessica Wolfendale "detail and critique dominant narratives of war crime apologia." This must-read article is free to read now! 👉 buff.ly/OyNuHjc
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🎉 Call for Interest! 🎉 The current editorial team, will complete their term at the end of December 2027. We have officially begun the search for who will take over. Details on how to submit and expression of interest are available on the BISA website: buff.ly/xFOXF60
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Alexandra De Ciantis & Daniel R. Brunstetter discuss the role of partisan memory in our latest issue with a focus on fascist resistance in Italy and France. It's free to read now! 👉 buff.ly/1sIvCgF
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