The 2026 ISA Annual Convention in Columbus is just a few weeks away. Time to celebrate some great scholarship. 🎉
We are excited to announce the 2026 FPA Section Award winners and highlight a few events you will not want to miss. 🧵
Welcome to #BISA2026! Our editor Andy made it on a banner to welcome people to the conference 🤓 Be sure to reach out to the team during the conference if you have questions about publishing with us.
Full program ➡️https://t.co/1q9er9XZcP
📢 We are hiring!
2 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Girona on:
🔹 Participatory Constitution-Making
🔹 Direct Democracy, Constitutional Change & Recall
📅 Deadline: 11 June 2026
⏳ Up to 4 years
Please share widely!
https://t.co/EvgtyzAti2
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Kramer (2026) explores how China manages its dual roles as leader of the Global South and global climate leader, developing a theoretical framework of role conflict management strategies in foreign policy.
https://t.co/qtWpaccwII
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Silva (2026) argues that Presidential beliefs about defence-offense balance and sanctions backfire produce variation in US sanctions policy, and develops a typology linking US grand strategies to distinct sanctions doctrines.
https://t.co/uu7ZkMf0hV
At #BISA2026 we will discuss the UN at 80, but there was another milestone last year: the #WPS agenda at 25. Check out our podcast discussion on this important anniversary ⤵️
🎧 👉 https://t.co/qMBts9B2gx
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Willis and Preble (2026) ask whether US security commitments lead to sanctions compliance, showing that greater US defence commitments reduce sanctions busting, though this effect dissapates for deployments longer than 40 years.
https://t.co/fUb3TFodM3
#BISA2026 is right around the corner! As you put your schedule together, consider joining us on Wednesday for a roundtable on AI and academic research. We have a fantastic group of participants!
https://t.co/sYqE1zkwGI
Join us for this year's Cambridge IR and History Conference will centre on past, current, and future challenges to international norms.
📅Fri 15 May 2026
🕙10am to 6.30pm
📍Bowett Room, Queens' College
Register now: https://t.co/VgHOjRPryj
Our friends at BISA will hold a virtual conference on 1-13 January 2027!! Submissions are now open, so please consider sending in an abstract or panel.
https://t.co/m0GFt8T1GL
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Onea and AltıntaŞ (2026) explore ally-scaping. Using Turkey's 1964 non-intervention in Cyprus, attributed to US opposition, they show how leaders blame allies for failing to support the state as they try to avoid domestic audience costs.
https://t.co/fzZ6ntp167
My new article, "The psychology of interstate rivalries: leaders' beliefs and the dynamics of conflict and cooperation," is out today in @IAJournal_CH: I explain why leaders' beliefs on both sides matter for understanding conflict and cooperation. https://t.co/inLUI5w3Vh
🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Cao and Hsuan-Yu Lin (2026) explore how domestic power grabs shape diplomacy with great powers. They find that countries that undergo leader power concentration are more likely to receive high-level diplomatic visits from China.
https://t.co/JEetJ7uqxM
War and the moral and legal attempts to regulate it have a long history. In an episode of podcast, editor Seb Kaempf sits down with Dr Thomas Gregory to chat about his editors collection, which is on our website now.
🎧 👉 https://t.co/liVi0SZgZe
📚 👉 https://t.co/PMPjCdjMmO
Participate in the 2026 APSA Virtual Dissertation Workshop on:
Public Administration and Policy
📅 June 5-19 (virtual)
This workshop will provide feedback to doctoral candidates pursuing degrees in #publicpolicy and/or #publicadministration.
Due 4/26! https://t.co/KqcC5a4GO3
📢 Job Opportunity:
We are hiring a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in European Comparative Politics (Temporary Fixed Term 3 Years)
🗓️ Closing Date: 12pm, 19 May 2026
Apply here: https://t.co/Y7MMfuSGF1
#AcademicJobs#Politics#UCD
How do states engage with diaspora populations outside their borders, and how does this impact geopolitics? This question is particularly relevant now and is the subject of Fiona B. Adamson & Enze Han's 2024 RIS article 👉 https://t.co/9dHnp3TO25
🚨@Kingspol_econ is looking for replacement cover for my teaching. 3-year fixed term full-time position open to political theorists. Happy to answer any queries.
https://t.co/3TkBO1dk93
CALL FOR PAPERS - 1 WEEK LEFT!
International Politics/(Un)Ethical Worlds: Morality, Power, Resistance and the Aesthetics of Politics in Dark Times.
20th-21st July 2026│In-Person│@StAndrewsIR
Keynotes: @SeanMolloyIR @JSouter2
Call closes: 20th April 2026
https://t.co/NMOLcSNrbT
Other events to add to your schedule:
☕ FPA Methods Café
Monday, 4 to 5:45 PM, session MD40
🥂 Joint reception with PDG and SSIP
Tuesday, 7:15 to 8:15 PM, Hilton.
The 2026 ISA Annual Convention in Columbus is just a few weeks away. Time to celebrate some great scholarship. 🎉
We are excited to announce the 2026 FPA Section Award winners and highlight a few events you will not want to miss. 🧵
📍 Join us at the FPA Section Business Meeting
Tuesday, 12:30 to 1:30 PM, Franklin B, Hyatt.
We will present the awards and share updates on section initiatives, including the new Emerging Scholar Award.