🚨 CfP: conference on "Sisterhood and brotherhood as political metaphors", organised by HIST section member @arthurduhe.bsky.social 👇

Arthur Duhé@arthurduhe.bsky.social · last mo.

Here is a call for papers for a conference about 'Sisterhood and Brotherhood as Political Metaphors' that I organise at Paris 8 on June 24-25, 2027 (see calenda.org/1413811). Abstracts (500 words-long) should be sent to politicalmetaphors@proton.me by October 2, 2026. Please feel free to reach out!

👉 All our most up-to-date info, including our fabulous award winners as well as the latest nomination details for next year's awards, on our section website! histsectionisa.weebly.com

We are thrilled to announce that our Susan Strange Best Book Prize was won by Patricia Owens (University of Oxford) for Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton University Press, 2025) 🎉

After the ISA is before the ISA! 🤓 The call for next year's @isanet.bsky.social annual convention in Atlanta 🏙️ is now up on the website. 🗓️ Deadline for proposals is June 1st – all further information below 👇

Thanks everyone for joining us at @isanet.bsky.social 2026 in Columbus this week, including at our reception, where we had a chance to announce and celebrate our award winners – both in attendance and in absentia. 🎉

Strange times for a US conference. But w/in obvious constraints, this week's @isanet.bsky.social convention in Columbus was awesome. Thanks to friends & colleagues for great conversations, sharing fascinating work & joining the @hist-isanet.bsky.social reception. Congrats again to all HIST awardees!

Join us today at 6:15pm for the #ISA2026 President’s Address. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you are in Columbus, come and join us for the HIST reception tonight! It's going to be an absolutely ... historic reception! 🤓 👇

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Get ready for the 2026 @isanet.bsky.social Convention in Columbus! To help you navigate the programme, here's an overview of our exciting HIST events and panels! 🗓️ First of all, the HIST section reception: Monday 23rd, 8pm – Taft A, Hyatt Regency Columbus 🧵

Thank you @hist-isanet.bsky.social! 🙏 @harokarkour.bsky.social and my paper on racial justice and the national interest in classical #realism won the Merze Tate Prize for the Best Article in Historical IR @sussexfss.bsky.social Find the article here (OA) 👇 academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism

Abstract. This article addresses growing calls for a fifth debate on international relations’ (IR) “race amnesia.” The central argument is two-fold. First,

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Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras The award goes to ... 🥁 Haro Karkour and Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"

Congratulations to our CAIT director, @felixroesch.bsky.social, who has received the 2026 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations. 🏆 Find more details below 👇 and the paper is available (open access) here: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

Toward IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism

Abstract. This article addresses growing calls for a fifth debate on international relations’ (IR) “race amnesia.” The central argument is two-fold. First,

academic.oup.com

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras The award goes to ... 🥁 Haro Karkour and Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"

Very proud of Hermann Derwanz for winning this prize — congratulations!

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical IR by a Graduate Student Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller The award goes to ... 🥁 Hermann Derwanz, “The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade”

A massive congratulations to @whitproject.bsky.social for ERASED, winning the @hist-isanet.bsky.social Francesco Guicciardini for 2026 - so well deserved and not the only award this year as it picked up the @isanet.bsky.social Theory Section Best Book Award as well!🥂 @princetonupress.bsky.social

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

Get ready for the 2026 @isanet.bsky.social Convention in Columbus! To help you navigate the programme, here's an overview of our exciting HIST events and panels! 🗓️ First of all, the HIST section reception: Monday 23rd, 8pm – Taft A, Hyatt Regency Columbus 🧵

Exciting new special forum out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social, full of contributions by HIST members! 👇

António Ferraz de Oliveira@antoniofdo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thrilled to share our open-access 'Geopolitical Imaginations and the History of International Thought', co-authored with @lucianashworth.bsky.social, and introducing our special forum with @gsqjournal.bsky.social Geopolitics is dead. Long live geopolitics. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

The countdown is on for the 67th Annual Convention! Columbus is ready... Are you? #ISA2026 Swipe left for more info on badge pickups, registration hours and more!

🏅 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical IR by a Graduate Student Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller The award goes to ... 🥁 Hermann Derwanz, “The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade”

🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras The award goes to ... 🥁 Haro Karkour and Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"

This is so lovely. 🤓 Thanks to the @hist-isanet.bsky.social for showcasing historical work and to the committee for recognising Erased with this prize. 🥂 Congratulations to Yan Long for their honourable mention.

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

This is a landmark book in international relations - and relevant now more than ever.

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

🏅 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman for "Weimar’s Long Shadow" (Cambridge University Press)

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

🗓️ Less than two weeks until the 2026 @isanet.bsky.social Convention in Columbus, Ohio! Over the coming days, we will be announcing the winners of our 2026 prizes, and point you to all HIST panels at the ISA. Stay tuned!

🚨 The 2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum on last year's winner "Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations" is now out in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Have a look at the introduction, individual reviews, and editors' response below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum: Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations

Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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#HistIR postdoc opportunity at ANU in Canberra Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations on the Australian Research Council project “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees”, reporting to Prof Luke Glanville DL March 15th – details 👇

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $89,313 – $112,103 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Part time, Fixed Term, up to 28hrs per week. (2 years) Outstanding opportunity to work on a p...

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👋 If you're looking for updates of the ISA's Historical Section (HIST), you're in the right place! Please like, share, and follow to help us spread the word 😀 #HistIR

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

New @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" #HistIR 🔽 Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

European Journal of International Relations - Volume 31, Number 4

Table of contents for European Journal of International Relations, 31, 4

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Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

⏰ Reminder! Don't forget to submit your nominations for our 2025 prizes – the deadline is **tomorrow** ⬇️ All details below & on our website:

Historical IR Section (ISA)@hist-isanet.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 2025 HIST prize details Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇 Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here! Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025

There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

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