In celebration of our 50th anniversary join us to reflect on the first BISA conference and foreign policy.

This article blends a feminist social reproduction approach with insights from the racial capitalism literature to analyse gendered labour relations in the global cocoa supply chain. It argues that...

In the 2000s and early 2010s, Brazil, Peru, and Chile experienced leftist electoral victories, reflecting the regional trend known as the Pink Tide. However, in the mid-2010s, the erosion of the po...

Guidance for Special Issue proposals

The Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group aims to foster a welcoming space for experimental, creative, and non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of International Studies. We are committed to promoting research that goes beyond the well-trodden paths of international relations and bringing together scholars who play with alternative modes of theorising, doing, and researching world politics. As the spiritual successor of the Post-Structuralist Politics Working Group, we are particularly excited to encourage research that creatively engages with...

Find out what each of our working groups achieved in 2024/2025 academic year.

Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

- Postgraduate Network (PGN) Working Group

Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...

For our milestone 50th anniversary conference in June 2025, we visited Belfast, the gateway to Northern Ireland, where we held almost 400 panels, roundtables, keynotes, receptions and more. 1,200…

The ‘rise of the South’, and particularly that of China, has promoted lively debates around the centrality of Southern firms in shaping the contours of twenty first century economic globalisation. ...

New event catered towards undergraduate students on the geographies of escalation.

The British International Studies Association is a learned society that promotes the study of international relations and related subjects through teaching, research, and facilitation of contact…

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Project is a joint programme between The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), its member social science societies and the Economic and Social Research…

This article conceptualises how the political economy of interprofessional competition and compromises has sustained colonialist professional practices. When professions distinguish their work alon...

This paper introduces the concept of financialised insurance through an analysis of the European insurance sector in the context of recent capitalist restructuring. It addresses a notable gap in th...