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The ECPR (@ecpr.bsky.social) Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) facilitates exchanges between European scholars of International Relations. Membership open to IR scholars for FREE. See https://ecpr.eu/group/international-relations for more.
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We are delighted to announce the new @ecpr.bsky.social SGIR Steering Committee. Congratulations to Maria Ferreira, @osmansabrikiratli.bsky.social, @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social, @raphaeloidtmann.bsky.social, Bernhard Reinsberg, and Lora Anne Viola on their election!
Announcing the 1st session of the SGIR Virtual IR Workshop Series!

Dr Fanny Badache, University of Geneva: "Contestation alignment in world politics: The case of UN peacekeeping operations"

Discussant: Prof Lora Anne Viola, Freie U

Wed 10th Dec 2025, 12pm CET
uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/81889216947
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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✨ Exciting opportunity to lead a world-class #IR journal ✨

📕 The Joint Management Committee of @ecprsgir.bsky.social & @europeanisa.bsky.social are seeking a NEW editorial team for @ejir.bsky.social

🔖 4-year term
🔖 Proposals up to 5,000 words
🔖 Deadline 31 Mar 2026

#IRSky #AcademicSky
Call for Editors, EJIR
We are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) from 1 January 2027.
ecpr.eu
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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⚙️ #ecprjs26 Workshop directors 🎬
@benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @yoramhaftel.bsky.social
💡 Seeks Papers exploring how global governance institutions respond to disruption and disruptors in world politics
✔️ @ecprsgir.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Submit by 10 Dec buff.ly/YnDgwfh

#Polisky #CallforPapers
Global Governance in Times of Disruption
Joint Sessions of Workshops, 7 – 10 April 2026, University of Innsbruck
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November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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💰 #NATO has agreed to a historic 5% defence spending target. But @osmansabrikiratli.bsky.social of @ecprsgir.bsky.social presents 🆕 evidence revealing that what Americans truly care about goes beyond the numbers. In fact, democratic allies may have more leeway than they realise.
👉 bit.ly/3JXqqlX
What Americans really think when European allies don’t cooperate
NATO recently agreed to a historic 5% defence spending target. But Osman Sabri Kiratli presents new experimental evidence revealing that what Americans truly care about goes far beyond the numbers. In...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR)
✨ Exciting opportunity to lead a world-class #IR journal ✨

📕 The Joint Management Committee of @ecprsgir.bsky.social & @europeanisa.bsky.social are seeking a NEW editorial team for @ejir.bsky.social

🔖 4-year term
🔖 Proposals up to 5,000 words
🔖 Deadline 31 Mar 2026

#IRSky #AcademicSky
Call for Editors, EJIR
We are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) from 1 January 2027.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We join scholars all over Europe and the world in mourning the passing of Professor John Groom, founder of SGIR and its first chair. His manifold contributions include the founding of the European Journal of IR and the World International Studies Committee. 1/2
October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Are you an @ecprsgir.bsky.social member planning an event benefiting the internationalization of IR scholarship in Europe? Apply to us for co-funding! Details and guidelines: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... Send your applications to ecpr.sgir@gmail.com.
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🚨 Mark your calendars, March 6 15:30 CET
👨‍🏫 Online lecture by Gustavo Robles on "Senses of Freedom. #PlatformLabor and Ideology in #Argentina"
👀 Find the details & zoom link here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de...
@ecpr.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @ecpr-ead.bsky.social @ecprsgir.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
We are delighted to announce the new @ecpr.bsky.social SGIR Steering Committee. Congratulations to Maria Ferreira, @osmansabrikiratli.bsky.social, @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social, @raphaeloidtmann.bsky.social, Bernhard Reinsberg, and Lora Anne Viola on their election!
February 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣Elections for a new @ecpr.bsky.social SGIR Steering Committee (SC) are ongoing📣 The term of the current SC is coming to an end. Nine colleagues, incl. three from the current SC, put themselves forward for the next term. Curious to see who they are? Log into #MyECPR now, check it out, and VOTE NOW!
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Any plans to participate in the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions 2025 in Prague in May? Are you working on the influence of the Far Right on Foreign Policy? If so, consider submitting your paper to the SGIR-endorsed workshop by Lisbeth Zimmermann and Raffaele Mastrorocco. Don't miss the opportunity!
10 days left to apply to our workshop on "The International Politics of the Far Right" @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague, May 2025.
The workshop is endorsed by @ecprsgir.bsky.social
Let's discuss all things far-right and international politics!
ddl: 21 November
info:
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
The International Politics of the Far Right
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 13, 2024 at 7:30 AM
🚨 Important reminder 🚨 Our Business Meeting will take place virtually THIS Friday (October 11). Also, please consider applying for the next Steerting Committee. More information on both in the post below and your email inbox (if you are already a member of the SGIR).
We invite you to join our 🚨Business Meeting🚨 on Oct 11, 10-11 am CET. The link to join was sent per email to all current SGIR members.

Also, we seek 🚨self-nominations until Oct 31🚨 to join the next Steering Committee. Please also check your messages for more on this! @ecpr.bsky.social
October 8, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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😟 European politics are becoming increasingly emotional.
Using findings from their JEI Special Issue, @ozlemturkterzi.bsky.social & Seda Gurkan explore how & when emotions matter in EU foreign policy .
@ecprsgeu.bsky.social @ecprsgir.bsky.social
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Emotions are running high in EU foreign policy – and that's ok
European politics are becoming increasingly emotional. But in times of war and rising autocratic populism, rational policy choices depend upon emotions to be effective. Özlem Terzi and Seda Gürkan arg...
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October 1, 2024 at 8:14 AM
We invite you to join our 🚨Business Meeting🚨 on Oct 11, 10-11 am CET. The link to join was sent per email to all current SGIR members.

Also, we seek 🚨self-nominations until Oct 31🚨 to join the next Steering Committee. Please also check your messages for more on this! @ecpr.bsky.social
September 18, 2024 at 3:39 PM
🚨Deadline upcoming🚨
New funding opportunity for SGIR members at the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in May 2025! Our endorsed workshop gets six €250 grants for participants' travel and accommodation + €500 for a common dinner. Join SGIR and send us your proposal by Sept 2! More info: ecpr.eu/news/news/de...
Call for Joint Sessions endorsed Workshops with funding
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
August 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Attention! We CANCELED our Business Meeting at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference in Dublin in August. Instead, we foresee a virtual BM in October, once we initiated the election process for the new Steering Committee. More details to follow. Apologies for any inconvenience! #ecprgc24
July 26, 2024 at 11:38 AM
New funding opportunity for SGIR members at the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in May 2025! Our endorsed workshop gets six €250 grants for participants' travel and accommodation + €500 for a common dinner. Join SGIR and send us your proposal by Sept 2! More info: ecpr.eu/news/news/de...
Call for Joint Sessions endorsed Workshops with funding
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
July 24, 2024 at 1:08 PM
🚨Only 2 days left to apply for a an SGIR-supported panel or roundtable at #ISA2025!🚨
📢#ISA2025 is already taking shape: www.isanet.org/Conferences/...! As ECPR @ecpr.bsky.social ECPR SGIR @ecprsgir.bsky.social we can propose 🚨one panel or roundtable🚨 If you are an ECPR SGIR member interested in organizing a panel/roundtable, please write lora.viola@fu-berlin.de by May 25! Thank you!
ISA 2025: Call for Proposals
www.isanet.org
May 23, 2024 at 8:53 AM
📢#ISA2025 is already taking shape: www.isanet.org/Conferences/...! As ECPR @ecpr.bsky.social ECPR SGIR @ecprsgir.bsky.social we can propose 🚨one panel or roundtable🚨 If you are an ECPR SGIR member interested in organizing a panel/roundtable, please write lora.viola@fu-berlin.de by May 25! Thank you!
ISA 2025: Call for Proposals
www.isanet.org
May 13, 2024 at 10:19 AM
📣📣📣 Application deadline: tonight (April 16)
⚠️ Attention, IR researchers! ✍️ Application deadline EXTENDED for the @ecprsgir.bsky.social Summer School ⤵️

❇️ Get insights on the interplay between domestic politics & global governance from leading scholars and policymakers

📅 1–5 Jul, University of Glasgow
⏰ 16 Apr ecpr.eu/Events/262
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April 16, 2024 at 8:06 AM
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⚠️ Attention, IR researchers! ✍️ Application deadline EXTENDED for the @ecprsgir.bsky.social Summer School ⤵️

❇️ Get insights on the interplay between domestic politics & global governance from leading scholars and policymakers

📅 1–5 Jul, University of Glasgow
⏰ 16 Apr ecpr.eu/Events/262
polisky
April 10, 2024 at 9:52 AM
🚨🚨Application Alert🚨🚨 Only 2 days left (until March 28) to apply for the #SummerSchool of the @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) on
"Domestic Politics and Global Governance" in #Glasgow in July. Find details here ecpr.eu/Events/262 and don't miss out! It'll be great!
Summer School of the Standing Group in International Relations, University of Glasgow, 1–5 July 2024
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
March 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM
🤩🎉Excited that our Summer School on Domestic Politics & Global Governance w/ insights from leading scholars & policymakers accepts applications ecpr.eu/Events/262 Curated by Bernhard Reinsberg, Eugenia Baroncelli, Dirk De Bièvre, Raphael Oidtmann, Lora Anne Viola & @markus-gastinger.eu 📣 APPLY NOW!
February 7, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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🚨🚨 The ECPR (@ecpr.bsky.social) Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) has finally arrived on Bluesky! As a member of the Steering Committee, let me assure you that we have a few exciting things planned for 2024. Don't miss it and follow us on Bluesky now! Thanks!
The ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) has arrived on Bluesky! Follow us to stay up-to-date with our events and opportunities, such as our Summer School 2024 in Glasgow, exciting co-funding opportunities, and something special for our endorsed workshops and sections. Stay tuned!
January 31, 2024 at 5:37 PM
The ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) has arrived on Bluesky! Follow us to stay up-to-date with our events and opportunities, such as our Summer School 2024 in Glasgow, exciting co-funding opportunities, and something special for our endorsed workshops and sections. Stay tuned!
January 31, 2024 at 5:31 PM