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📣 Changes to Our Editorial Board 📣 JIRD is thrilled to announce that @andrew-lix.bsky.social will be joining us as an associate editor. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of IR at Central European University. He is a political economist with expertise in quantitative methods.

📚 Want to publish a guest-edited Special Collection with JIRD? 📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2026! 👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: shorturl.at/sKSOb 📬 We look forward to receiving your submissions!

🎉 Changes to Our Editorial Board 🎉 JIRD is thrilled to announce that @scwinkler.bsky.social will be joining us as an associate editor. She is a postdoc at Stockholm University and Goethe University Frankfurt, working on political concepts, sociotechnical imaginaries, and US–China relations.

How does the simultaneous admission of rival claimants to a universal organisation help manage divided sovereignties? Muhamet Brajshori theorises such parallel membership based on the dual UN accessions of the two German states (1973) and the two Koreas (1991). 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzpF4

How do transnational experts and bureaucratic networks contribute to the continuity of regional organizations? To address this question, @parthenayk.bsky.social, Julissa Castro Silva & @djn22.bsky.social compare the Central American Integration System and the Pacific Alliance. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzpDD

What accounts for variation in IO crisis responses? @stephofmann.bsky.social & @ckreudersonnen.bsky.social develop a theoretical framework that accounts for both IOs’ relative positioning vis-à-vis each other and crisis temporality. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fziey

How do ontological security processes shape war termination decisions? Focusing on the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Jonny Hall illustrates how war terminations act as anxiety-generating moments that prompt states to confront gaps between expectations and reality. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzh2H

How does inter-narrativity play out in the rise of the “Indo-Pacific” as a geopolitical narrative? From its origin in stories about Japan’s regional identity, Karoline Postel-Vinay traces an oceanic narrative that accommodates a diversity of geopolitical story-telling. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzhZP

How is right-wing international populism implemented at the regional level? Through a comparative case study analysis, Bernadett Lehoczki draws attention to the centrality of fighting “globalists” as an organizing principle of right-wing populist cooperation beyond the state. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzhVq

How has Mexico’s Feminist Foreign Policy been constructed and mobilized within international, national and individual storytelling practices? Based on a thematic analysis, @isaherna.bsky.social highlights a dissonance between internal realities and international commitments. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzhQ0

How does the emergence and election of new parties challenge mainstream security policies, and with what effects? @raffaelemstr.bsky.social examines political entrepreneurs in Bulgaria to illustrate how challengers mobilise public discontent on neglected security concerns. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzhMU

How does China signal its international status through the provision of global public goods for health? In their article, Igor Sevenard & Richard J. Cook examine China’s response to health crises in Sierra Leone and Madagascar. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/fzhCd

Very grateful to the Editors of @jird-jour.bsky.social for their splendid work and to the three anonymous reviewers for their engagement with the study and their useful feedback. It was really a great process. In the acknowledgements, I'm also thankful to many others for varied reasons.

Challenger parties don't just confront mainstream foreign policies-they redefine what counts as national security in the first place. New open-access article on political entrepreneurs and foreign and security policy⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... @jird-jour.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social

Politics defying threats: how political entrepreneurs reconfigure national security agendas - Journal of International Relations and Development

The emergence and election of new parties challenging mainstream status quo in democratic countries is one of the most critical features affecting the definition of national security priorities today....

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How do international institutions respond when their legitimacy is challenged? Gisela Hirschmann's article in @jird-jour.bsky.social examines how the #ICC made sense of contestation by African states parties & what this reveals about institutional adaption and resilience. doi.org/10.1057/s412...

Organizational sense-making in international institutions: the International Criminal Court’s response to contestation by African states parties - Journal of International Relations and Development

In its short history, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has repeatedly faced contestation by states, which reached a first peak in 2016 with the threat of mass withdrawal by its African members.…

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How do indigenous narratives enable policy change? In her contribution to the Special Collection “Narratives in Times of Uncertainty,” Özlem Terzi explicates the internal and external aspects of the Saami Council’s narratives that helped foster productive engagement with the EU. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/flNI3

How do states remain credible in global environmental governance despite gaps between commitments and implementation? Read Moch Faisal Karim & @thaisdoria.bsky.social’s analysis as part of the Special Collection “Narratives in Times of Uncertainty.” 📄 👉 rdcu.be/flNGs

What is the role of diasporas in the transnational politicisation of bilateral issues between homeland and hostland? Focusing on the Turkish diaspora in Germany, Ebru Turhan & Kai Oppermann explicate its involvement in the politicisation of German-Turkish relations. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/flNDJ

How do life stories help states retain narrative coherence when faced with uncertainty? In her contribution to the Special Collection “Narratives in Times of Uncertainty,” Bianca Naude answers this question based on South Africa’s responses to the Gaza and Ukraine crises. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/flqO9

How can existing research on norm entrepreneurship be broadened beyond liberal actors or non-state advocacy networks? @debremaria.bsky.social & @danielleflonk.bsky.social focus on China and Russia to demonstrate how authoritarian coalitions are reshaping global normative orders. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/feRlG

“What’s ‘rural’ in rural development?” ask Kressen Thyen & Anna Wolkenhauer in their new article. Based on a double-paired comparison, they highlight how the targets of rural development take on various meanings in national politics and people’s daily lives. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/feRj5

How do variations in the institutional design of IIGOs, such as the G20 or the BRICS, shape their capacity for informal governance? @stevebmann.bsky.social's article develops a typology that distinguishes IIGOs based on their issue scope and members’ collective capabilities. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/feRi4

How can Hirschman’s seminal work (1970) “Exit, voice, and loyalty” be translated into a framework for quantitative analysis of why states withdraw from Regional International Organizations? Read Diana Panke, Lukas Grundsfeld, and Pawel Tverskoi’s article to find out! 📄 👉 rdcu.be/feRhX

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What could a policy-oriented framework grounded in ontological security theory look like? In his article, @lupovicia.bsky.social aims to sensitize policymakers to ontological dynamics and provide conceptual tools for navigating them. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/e5Z6Q

How do far-right leaders narrate past disrespect to reclaim national “status” in foreign policy? 🇺🇸 In his contribution to the Special Collection, @lesliewehner.bsky.social shows how Trump 2.0 uses strategic narratives to restore US stature on the international stage. 📄 👉 rdcu.be/e5Z8f

How do narratives help states manage uncertainty in world politics? 🌍 Our first Special Collection, edited by @hildevanmeegdenburg.com & Falk Ostermann @uni-kiel.de, explores how storytelling shapes foreign policy formulation & practice. 📚️ 👉 link.springer.com/collections/...