Reminder that the Review of International Studies is also on LinkedIn. The social media landscape for publishing is changing, and we want to be where we can share your work to the widest audiences! buff.ly/ZHmWRHf

🎉 Call for Interest! 🎉 The current editorial team, will complete their term at the end of December 2027. We have officially begun the search for who will take over. Details on how to submit and expression of interest are available on the BISA website: buff.ly/xFOXF60

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Neither convergence nor resistance: A hybridization framework for norm evolution in the digital age" by Ilaria Carrozza is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/Lo8YyE2

Have you seen our latest issue? Volume 52(3) is out now and the articles are free to read until the end of the month 🤓 📚️ 👉 buff.ly/r4duuNd

RIS is always looking for reviewers! If you are a new ECR wonder about best practices, check out the @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org FAQ page below. 👇 buff.ly/E9B71qG

Our "most read" section on the website always offers a fascinating look at what topics are trending in IR. Check out the current list below! 📚 ➡️ buff.ly/Q7uli6H

In our latest issue, Claudia Junghyun Kim "conceptualises states' rhetoric of norm evasion as a social psychological coping strategy: aimed at protecting in-group esteem" using Japan as a primary case study. It's free to read now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/kmS7sT9

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Ad hoc coalitions across time: Shaping international cooperation amid political rivalry" by Stephanie C. Hofmann , Raffaele Mastrorocco & Anastasia Prokhorova is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/PuXrEaG

"Why did the Netherlands apologize?" In out latest issue, Bart-Jan Zandee & Salvador Santino Regilme pick apart the conditions under which sovereign states apologize. It's online now, so have a look! 📘 👉 buff.ly/yEua1dE

Reminder that our latest articles are all published online first before they are included in an issue, and that these are all available on our website! This is the best way to stay up to date on latest RIS research. ➡️ buff.ly/tV387aH

In our latest issue, Sara Wong "considers what anti-colonial surrealist praxis can provide those of us interested in the nexus of aesthetics and world politics." It's on our website now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/G7Li9Ml

🚨New First View Article🚨 The introduction for our upcoming special issue is out now! "The pluralization of expertise: The good, the glamorous, and the political" by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Juanita Uribe, & Leandro Montes Ruiz is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/cU6hUVI

Jamal Nabulsi develops the concept of "affective sovereignty" in his article in issue 52(3). Jamal won the CPD best paper prize for this piece, so be sure to check it out! 📘 👉 buff.ly/7XUZ7kS

REMINDER! The Review of International Studies editorial office will be closed until 13th July 2026. It will still be possible to make new submissions to the journal, but these will not be processed during this time.

Our latest issue, 52(3) is out now! Check out Rauna Kuokkanen's article, "It’s about all relations: Indigenous feminist theory of relational freedom". 📘 👉 buff.ly/nKMeKu2

Shadi Mokhtari's article "The Reverse Savages, Victims, Saviours metaphor of human rights" is one of our most read of the year, and is now in our latest issue. Check it out online now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/fqwllzr

In our latest issue, Chenchen Zhang shows how reactionary discourses operate across the geopolitical divide in non-Western contexts. The article is #OpenAccess and free to read now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/M1XiFTM

In our latest issue, Teresa Lappe-Osthege & Rosaleen Duffy bring IR "into conversation with animal studies to further develop conceptual debates on integrating non-human actors." It's #OpenAccess and free to read! 📘 👉 buff.ly/3iX1GNt

In our latest issue, Tarsis Brito argues that the "use of police dogs at Europe's borders operates by reinforcing the non- or less-than-human status of racialised migrants by marking them as 'animal-like' and 'edible' bodies." Check it out now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/BSBfzAe

The Review of International Studies editorial office will be closed from 26th June - 13th July 2026. It will still be possible to make new submissions to the journal, but these will not be processed during this time.

How were online conspiracy theories mobilized during the COVID-19 pandemic? How did this impact policies to curb the pandemic? Check out Corey Robinson and Scott D. Watson's article in our latest issue (52(2))! 📘 👉 buff.ly/6m15RLh

In our latest issue, Elspeth Van Veeren, Clare Stevens and Amaha Senu introduce the concept of ‘secrecy games’ as an approach for understanding secrecy’s power and influence. The full issue is online and free to access now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/JfA3VAw

In their latest article, Tim Aistrope & Ugo Gaudino explore contestation between securitizing actors, including the "relationship between elite and popular securitization that has been under examined in the securitization literature." This article is in issue 52(2)! 📘➡️ buff.ly/mcEjb1R

Planning next semester's syllabuses? At RIS, we have many special collections covering key IR topics. Feel free to make use of these when pointing students towards the latest research! buff.ly/txWukID

Our latest issue also deals with Susan Strange in the everyday: check out Kasper Arabi's contribution in 52(2), where he engages with the "mundane" sources of structural power. 📘 👉 buff.ly/GvofCmw

In our latest issue, Blayne Haggart & Randall Germain that Susan Strange's analytical framework for the structure of the global economy continues to be a fruitful way of understanding IPE, and they develop a "neo-Strangean" framework. 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/itadmOu

"How can we understand the audience agency and securitisation processes that can induce anxiety?" Minseon Ku and Brian Finch's address this question in our latest issue, which is free to read now! buff.ly/pYARgsL

#ICYMI: The 2025 RIS best paper prize was announced at #BISA2026! Congrats to Thom Tyerman & Travis van Isacker for winning based on this fantastic article: "‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders". #OpenAccess ⤵️ buff.ly/rjcK3sO

🚨New First View Article🚨 "The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, anti-imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade" by Hermann Derwanz is now available online first on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/GglEeIK

What's behind the narrative of the "Age of Anxiety"? In our latest issue, Alastair Markland discusses how this thesis presents "the affective experiences of the liberal-Western lifeworld as universal". It's free to read now! 📘 👉 buff.ly/j00BnSU