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🖋️British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

📍A Political Studies Association journal edited by a team at POLIS, University of Leeds.

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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2024 is Johanna Rodehau-Noack for her article ‘Counting bodies, preventing war: Future conflict and the ethics of fatality numbers’.

🎉 Congratulations to Johanna!
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The #BJPIR team will be taking a break over this festive period. ⛄

We will be back from the 5th January and look forward to hearing from you in the New Year.
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Vol. 27, Iss. 4

'State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions' by Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Irina Busygina, Jørn Holm-Hansen, Marthe Handå Myhre

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December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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'New regulatory scaffolding for the United Kingdom: Brexit, devolution and the Windsor Framework' by Lisa Claire Whitten & @dphinnemore.bsky.social

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Emotional protesters: Protest out of anger or stay home in fear? - Deren Onursal, 2025
How do repressive state tactics used in response to protests affect individuals’ willingness to continue protesting? Particularly, does repression increase or d...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Will there be war over Taiwan? The article argues cross-Strait deterrence remains structurally stable. Reunification by force carries extreme risks for China, and its benefits from retaking Taiwan are tenuous.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025)

'Crowds and plebiscitary representation: Rituals of presence in the Orbán regime' by Gábor Illés & Tamás László

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December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2025)

'Enlargement as high politics: New insights on the integration of the German Democratic Republic into the European Community' by Alexander Klein

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December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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'The erosion of democracy in an age of wealth inequality: Unravelling the impact of subjective socioeconomic stratification' by @hanseun02260787

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December 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Have nationalists and unionists set Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party up to fail by handing it the task of tackling a blue-green algae crisis at Lough Neagh? Read @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social and Elliott Hill's analysis in this new #BJPIR article.
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'The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis' by @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social & Elliott Hill

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December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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'Emotional protesters: Protest out of anger or stay home in fear?' by Deren Onursal

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December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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'Beyond the meadows and uplands: The Leave campaign’s vision of the post-Brexit future' by Mike Bolt

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December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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'Will there be war over Taiwan? Structural stability and policy pitfalls in cross-Strait deterrence' by Brandon K Yoder

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December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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'An uneasy union: The moral and ideological divides of territorial identification in post-Brexit Scotland' by Constantine G Kyritsopoulos, Adam Moore & Laura Cram

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December 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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'Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros' by Priya Chacko

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December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why have Northern Ireland's political parties found it difficult to agree on an approach to tackling the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh, despite apparent rhetorical consensus on the lough's importance? @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social and Elliott Hill's #BJPIR article explains.
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'The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis' by @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social & Elliott Hill

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November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📣 New #BJPIR article out now!

'Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories' by @beatrizlbuarque.bsky.social & Nick Lewis

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November 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now!

'The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis' by @tagarin.bsky.social, @lpcooley.bsky.social & Elliott Hill

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November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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'The masculine threat: Hegemonic masculinity and gendercide in communal warfare' by Tobias Tseer & Promise Frank Ejiofor

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November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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This article is now out in @bjpir.bsky.social! In it, we explain why government action to tackle the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh has lagged behind the apparent rhetorical consensus about its importance. Has Muir been set up to fail? #LoughNeagh #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The environment as a second policy dimension in a deeply divided society: The politics of Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh crisis - Timofey Agarin, Laurence Cooley, Elliott Hill, 2025
Environmental concerns are often marginalised in post-conflict societies. Especially under power-sharing, political parties tend to prioritise their ethno-natio...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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My co-authored paper presenting some key insights from the research project on AI and the far-right riots in the UK has just been published in the @bjpir.bsky.social and is open access!

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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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'International relations theory and US–China competition: A theoretical exploration' by Kai He & Huiyun Feng

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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We know that China ran a domestic propaganda campaign supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—but did it work? This article explores how effective the campaign was in persuading the Chinese public and which segments of the population were more vulnerable to its influence.
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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'Enforcement of international human rights law: A comparative exploration of alternative public opinion channels' by A Burcu Bayram, Eric Keels & @efetokdemir.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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'Historicising Mauritian self-determination at the International Court of Justice' by Zaki Nahaboo

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November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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'The enemy behind the scenes: How China’s propaganda shores up support for Russia’s war in Ukraine' by @taomanchester.bsky.social & Han-yu Hsu

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November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM