Review of International Studies serves the needs of scholars in international relations and related fields such as politics, history, law, and sociology.
How are IR concepts grounded in ‘secularized’ Judaeo-Christian assumptions?
In their article,
@GiorgioShani
&
@BeheraChadha
engage with The Mahābharāta and a reading of dharma to develop a new perspective for International Relations.
Free to read 👉
READ THIS!!!!! Are you a woman early career researcher who has a draft paper that you would like to submit to a major journal?
Announcing the
@RISjnl
Workshop for Women Early Career Researchers -
Please circulate
@MYBISA
What do jokes, memes, parodies, and puns do in international politics?
Take a look at
@HelleMalmvig
’s piece on the underside of humor’s productive political power.
Click here for free access ➡️
Looking back on some of
@RISjnl
's most significant articles over the past decade, here is a piece by Lene Hansen from 2014: "How images make world politics: International icons and the case of Abu Ghraib". It's
#OpenAccess
!
📄➡️
#BehindtheScenes
at
@RISjnl
: in 2024, we will have a new editorial team.
This week a few of the incoming editors -
@TheRealistHom
,
@MMalksoo
and Ben Martill - met for an impromptu coffee. One of many meetings in the years to come!
In light of the announcement that Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates will be part of the BRICS bloc, it's worth revisiting the special section on regional powers by Philip Nel and Detlef Nolte:
From the archives:
How does memory feature in debates in the UN Security Council?
Check out Kathrin Bachleitner's article from 2023: "International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria." It's
#OpenAccess
!
👉
You voted to see one of our papers about the politics of emotion and here it is!
Our editor
@martincoward
recommends this piece by
@rbleiker
and
@emma_hutchison
on the importance of cross-disciplinary approaches in world politics.
Access it for free:
In their article, Stephane J. Baele & Thierry Balzacq develop an analytical framework for understanding rituals in international politics. Have a read, it's
#OpenAccess
👇
@CUP_PoliSci
@MYBISA
If you are interested in global intellectual history and decolonial debates, you cannot miss the paper in which Martin Bayly (
@LSEIRDept
) proposes a more nuanced view of the internationalism/imperialism divide.
Access this highlight of our latest issue:
New paper for first view in
@RISjnl
: "Relational Indigenous systems: Aboriginal Australian political ordering and reconfiguring IR" by Morgan Brigg, Mary Graham & Martin Weber (
@POLSISEngage
). It'll be featured on a special issue in 2022!
Free access:
How do individual citizens emotionally navigate world politics?
Dr.
@AnneMarieHoude
explores this question in her latest article using focus groups to look at individual emotional attachments to IOs like the EU.
Have a read, it's
#OpenAccess
! ⤵️
"...authors will only need to format their pieces to the respective journal’s in-house style guide if an article has been accepted for publication..."
@RISjnl
@EJIntSec
We have created a new
@RISjnl
resource showcasing the conversations & contributions made to gender and feminist analysis over the years in our pages. Check out the new Special Collection on Gender, feminism, and IR.
#Free
to read/download until 31 July .
In case you missed it: our latest issue is out and available online!
This Special Issue was edited by
@therealisthom
&
@CianODriscoll79
with nine articles reflecting on existentialism in global politics. Have a read👇
This weekend the Brazilian congress was stormed by Bolsonaro's supporters in an act similar to the invasion of the US Capitol in 2021.
It's worth revisiting Katja Freistein and
@gadinsky
's visual narrative analysis of right-wing populist parties
Archives
The relevance of existentialist philosophy to IR is particularly clear in the field of ontological security.
In our latest
#SpecialIssue
,
@XanderKirke
and Brent Steele strengthen this link by exploring the function of myths in politics.
📄👉
New paper for first view in
@RISjnl
and it is open access: "Follow the money: Assessing Women, Peace, and Security through financing for gender-inclusive peace" by Sara E. Davies and
@JacquiTrue
.
Click here to read it for free:
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
Harvard, Chicago, APA, oh my!
As of now,
@MYBISA
journals (including us!) are now officially format free for submissions. Learn more about the decision ⤵️
Are you (like Rex) looking for your next great read? The Review of International Studies has all its issues archived and a great selection of First View articles. Take a look here 👇 👇
🚨New first view article🚨
"Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks" by
@TheRealistHom
and
@CianODriscoll79
which is the intro to our (upcoming!)
#existentialism
special issue
Read here (right link this time!)➡️
🚨 New First View Article 🚨
"‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses" by Valentin Clavé-Mercier (
@cisrul_abdn
) is now available
#OpenAccess
online!
📄 👉
This year
@RISjnl
has 2 joint winners of the annual prize for best article published in 2021. They were just announced at
#BISA2022
. Stay tuned for more because, in the next few minutes, we'll announce the winner of the CPD’s first annual Early Career Researcher Paper Prize.
Are you ready to know who won the honourable mention of the
@cpdbisa
Early Career Researcher Paper Prize? Asma Abdi impressed the prize committee and she'll
be mentored by
@RISjnl
, have her paper sent directly for external review, and she'll also join us at
#BISA2022
(
@mybisa
)
CALL for special issue proposals!
As
@RISjnl
celebrates its 50th year,
#RIS50
invites proposals for a special issue to be published in 2025. Special issues should make an original contribution to research. Deadline 22 March:
@bisa_ipeg
@BISAPGN
New paper for first view in
@RISjnl
and it is open access: "Global intellectual history in International Relations: Hierarchy, empire, and the case of late colonial Indian international thought" by Martin J. Bayly (
@LSEIRDept
). Access it:
@MYBISA
In issue 50(1), Zeynep Gülşah Çapan & Filipe dos Reis discuss how technologies of power were used to create imaginaries of colonizable land using 19th century German colonial discourses as a case.
Read Here ➡️
The editorial transition means many meetings - and tests the limits of working hours!
This morning our incoming editorial team joined from around the world and across half a dozen time zones in the name of
@RISjnl
👇
Before his keynote address at
#BISA2024
, check out a couple of great
@RISjnl
articles by Tarak Barkawi of
@SAISHopkins
!
📄'The postcolonial moment in security studies'
➡️
📄'Utile forms: power and knowledge in small war'
➡️
Stay tuned for our special issue edited by Karen Smith &
@vineet1232
on the Multiple Births of IR with contributions from
@DrAlexEDavis
,
@tiekutom
, Jay Hwang, Jungmin Seo and Young Chul Cho, and Carlos Milani.
Click here to read the introduction for free:
Take a look at this article from
@RISjnl
latest issue: "The heart of bureaucratic power: Explaining international bureaucracies’ expert authority" by
@LieseAndrea
@jana_herold
Hauke Feil and Per-Olof Busch.
Read it for free here:
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
BREAKING NEWS!
Volume 47 - Issue 4 of
@RISjnl
is out with papers about health and global governance, politics of truth, celebrity humanitarianism, memory laws, and IPE.
Access the issue for free until 10/10:
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
#EISA2021
#APSA2021
Our incoming editorial team spent time during the transition reflecting on what they hope to see more of at
@RISjnl
in the next four years. Here is our co-lead editor
@TheRealistHom
discussing diversifying the field 👇 📺
✅First full editorial meeting of 2024 in the books!
For
#RIS50
we have plenty of events, roundtables, special calls in the pipeline so stay tuned for more. In the meantime, be sure to join us for our launch event on February 22 ➡️
"The Trump presidency ushered in a heightened sense of ontological insecurity in the US, based on a national self-narrative that portrayed an emasculated America. "
Read
@ChrisAgius13
's article on Trump, Ontological Security, and gendered narratives 👉
CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUES!
As we celebrate
#RIS50
, we invite proposals for a 2025 special issue. Submissions should make an original contribution to IR research. Deadline 22 March!
📝 Apply Here
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
🚨 New First View Article🚨
"Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America" by Miriam Lang is now available to read
#OpenAccess
!
📄 👉
RIS is celebrating its 50th volume in 2024. How do our articles reflect important epochs in IR? Here is the most cited article from 1975: “E.H. Carr and international relations” by Graham Evans.
📄 ➡️
As the smoke from Canadian wildfires has reached Norway, it is worth revisiting the paper in which Eva Lövbrand and
@stripple
reflect on the political geography of the carbon cycle.
Click here to access it for free:
From
@RISjnl
archives:
📸With such a global team, conferences like
#ISA2024
give us a chance to meet in person. Here are our editors Soumita, Seb, and Ben meeting with the
@MYBISA
team!
Check out the
#BISAISA24
program for panels, readers, and info about our drinks reception:
🚨New First View Article🚨
"Legitimate governance in international politics: Towards a relational theory of legitimation" by
@WolfgangMinatti
is now available
#OpenAccess
!
📄Read Here 👉
🚨 New First View Article 🚨
Ersel Aydinli (
@bilkentirdept
) & Julie Aydinli (
@asbuedo
) explore the impact of the English dominance in the field of IR and call for greater multilingualism.
Have a read, it’s
#OpenAccess
! ➡️
New paper for first view in
@RISjnl
: "‘No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race’: Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age" by
@DrBeeZee
Enjoy it for free here:
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
🚨New First View Article🚨
What is the role of propaganda in warfare, and should propagandists be considered legitimate targets? Read Marie Robin's latest
#OpenAccess
piece in RIS 👇
A reminder to check out our new Special Collection showcasing the contributions made by authors in
@RISjnl
to conversations about Gender, Feminism, and IR.
“How can we recentre just war thinking as a ‘lived’ theory?”
In the latest issue,
@CianODriscoll79
finds the historic links between the theory of ‘just war’ and lived experience of war using existentialism as a conduit.
📄👉
CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUES!
As we celebrate
#RIS50
, we invite proposals for a 2025 special issue. Submissions should make an original contribution to IR research. Deadline 22 March!
📝 Apply Here
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
As millions from US to Europe and Asia will be hit by an extreme heat wave in the next days, it's worth revisiting the paper in which Jonathan Symons reflects on the responses to systemic climate risks from a Classical Realist perspective.
Check it out:
"We wish the new editorial team the best of luck for the next four years – we are confident they will do an amazing job."
In our latest issue, our editorial team led by
@MartinCoward
said goodbye to
@RISjnl
readers.
Read their full editorial here 👇
Are you interested in region-making? Then, you should take a look at the paper in which
@lucasdopaes
uses network theory and analysis to propose a framework for studying the making and makings of regions. It is featured in our latest issue!
Access:
@MYBISA
The judges also gave an honorable mention to
@DavidDuriesmith
and
@SaraMeger
for their article "Returning to the root: Radical feminist thought and feminist theories of International Relations", which can be accessed for free here Congrats
@MYBISA
#BISA2021
It is with great sadness that we were informed of the passing of Professor Andrew Linklater (8 March 1949 - 5 March 2023). Now you can find on our website a collection of his contributions to RIS compiled by Richard Devetak (
@UQ_News
).
Access:
How is sexual violence – particularly when men are victims – theorized in global politics?
In this article from 2021,
@ProfMarysiaZed
untangles the complexities of feminist thought at the intersection of gender, sex, and violence.
Vol 49 - Issue 1 of
@RISjnl
is out with ten papers exploring the different ways to study and experience governance, marginalisation, and resistance. Disruption by design is the underlying theme of
@RISjnl
's latest issue.
Click here to access it:
@MYBISA
The renowned Professor of Critical Development Studies
@ilankapoor
is among the stellar contributors to
@RISjnl
special issue on decolonising IR.
Take a look at the paper that explores some of the ways of decolonising Development Studies:
@mybisa
New paper for first view in
@RISjnl
: "Gothic visibilities and International Relations: Uncanny icons, critical comics, and the politics of abjection in Aleppo" by
@FredWindfeld
,
@MariusHvithamar
, and Lene Hansen.
Click here to access it for free:
@MYBISA
Continuing our series showcasing the 25 most downloaded articles since 1975 as part of the celebrations of
@RISjnl
50th anniversary, today we highlight the piece written by
@LalehKhalili
! Enjoy it for free:
@CUP_PoliSci
@MYBISA
What is the basis of status in world order?
In our latest issue, Jelena Subotic,
@AlexVandermaas
, & Michael Barnett discuss how status can also be conferred onto victims in the int’l community.
Read Here ➡️
Do you have an idea for a Special Issue? Send us your proposal by MARCH 22 to be considered for our next special issue in early 2026.
📝 Apply Here
@MYBISA
@CUP_PoliSci
🚨New First View Article🚨
"‘Every one (re)membered’: Anxiety, family history, and militarised vicarious identity promotion during Britain’s First World War centenary commemorations" by
@josephhaigh
is available now
#OpenAccess
!
📄👉
Hot off the press: Ann Towns on the production of feminized masculinities. A new and innovative reading of diplomacy and gender
@AnnTowns3
@MYBISA
As 50,000 Ukrainian refugees could be made homeless in the UK next year, it is worth revisiting the paper in which Thomas Moore critically examines the political dynamics of humanitarianism.
Enjoy the reading for free:
Archives:
As Xi Jinping was appointed for the third time as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, CPC, it's worth revisiting the paper in which Andreas Møller Mulvad examines Xiism as an hegemonic project.
Click here to access it for free:
Archives:
Kim Hutchings on
#RIS50
: When it comes to critical IR,
@RISjnl
has played an important role in ‘constructing as well as reflecting’ the diversity and plurality of the discipline.
@MYBISA