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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 Don't miss this #BJPIR article out now! 'Centralisation without Independence: The functional scope of informal intergovernmental organisations' by David Hagebölling 🔗 buff.ly/rnWBzXq @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📖 Most read #openaccess article in #BJPIR: 'International relations theory and US–China competition: A theoretical exploration' by Kai He & Huiyun Feng 🔗 buff.ly/Yp0aXSj @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📝 Don't miss this article out now! 'Representations of nuclear risk in the UK Parliament: Understanding the role of political discourse in the development of preparedness activity for nuclear accidents' by Lianna Roast & Christopher Baker-Beall 🔗 buff.ly/Ozajoyu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📝 Don't miss this new #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The long shadow of the past: How Irish history shapes attitudes towards the Israel–Palestine conflict' by Miceal Canavan & Liam Kneafsey 🔗 buff.ly/GzlW7JY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📝 Don't miss this new #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Party organisation and the strategic use of federal narratives in electoral campaigns: Evidence from Assam, India' by Pratyush Paras Sarma 🔗 buff.ly/10iaUdx @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📝 Don't miss this #BJPIR article out now! 'Does populism challenge the status quo? Understanding transgression and subversion in contemporary politics' by Sebastian Ronderos & @emmyeklundh.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/vLHOWIx @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! '‘Change at home and change abroad?’ Visualising the (im)possibilities of British foreign policy in the aftermath of Corbyn’s response to the Manchester Arena bombing' by @tomhowe.bsky.social & Maximillian Guarini 🔗 buff.ly/A8X3H7n @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📝 Don't miss this #BJPIR article out now! 'Time well spent? A population study of corporate access to the executive in the United Kingdom' by Kevin Fahey & Iain McMenamin 🔗 buff.ly/OgX2bne @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📝 Don't miss this #BJPIR article out now! 'Immigration, business, and the state: UK immigration policy from New Labour to Brexit' by James Hampshire 🔗 buff.ly/qpLVzAy @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What is the relationship between recent race riots in Northern Ireland and the long history of sectarianism during the Troubles? Gutiérrez, Whiting & Doherty look at the symbolism and repertoires of violence behind rioting and house burnings in Northern Ireland to answer this question. ⬇️

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Charisma goes viral: Péter Magyar and the digital construction of political authority' by Rudolf Metz, Eszter Farkas & Veronika Kövesdi 🔗 buff.ly/u5T8rpL @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

US-China competition is simmering at the UN, with US officials noting “Guterres office is not for sale to China.” ⬇️

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📖 Most read #openaccess article in #BJPIR: 'International relations theory and US–China competition: A theoretical exploration' by Kai He & Huiyun Feng 🔗 buff.ly/sascmKW @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Do electoral polls explain the winner–loser gap in political trust? A panel study on polls, election results, and political trust in Belgium' by @dieterstiers.bsky.social & Marc Hooghe 🔗 buff.ly/e435O5b @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'From Bombay Street to Ballymena: The repertoires of sectarian violence and 21st-century racism' by José A. Gutiérrez, Matthew Whiting & Shannon Doherty 🔗 buff.ly/OxwY1le @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Examining US–China strategic competition: The case of China’s global initiatives at the United Nations Secretariat' by Courtney J. Fung 🔗 buff.ly/8ZsOkWW @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📖 Don't miss the runner up articles for the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025! ‘Dillon Wamsley, ‘Revisiting the theoretical foundations of depoliticisation: A Gramscian state theory approach for an era of crisis’ by @dillonwamsley.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/SZYPVeI

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Chris Butler @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very surprised and delighted that my lead-authored article with @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @martamiori.bsky.social has won the BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025! If only I could find a uni to employ me I would keep trying to produce research at this level 🤣

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

*PSA Journal Prizes* 🏆️ This year’s John Peterson Prize for the best article published in the British Journal of #Politics and #InternationalRelations goes to “Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election” ➡️ Learn more buff.ly/xo072Bg @bjpir.bsky.social

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PSA Journal: BJPIR John Peterson Prize 2026 - Political Studies Association

We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s John Peterson Prize for the best article published in 2025 in the PSA’s British Journal of Politics and International Relations. The winning…

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Kei Koga @k-since2024.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m delighted that my article, “Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal” has been selected as a runner-up article for the 2025 BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize! Many thanks to the editors, judges, and BJPIR for this!!

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📖 Don't miss the runner up articles for the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025! ‘Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific’ by @k-since2024.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/6KHm8HW @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📖 Don't miss the runner up articles for the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025! ‘Imaginaries of trauma and victimhood: The role of the ‘China threat’ in Trump’s populism of the privileged’ by Alexandra Homolar & Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado 🔗 buff.ly/oIVBB6B @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📖 Don't miss the runner up articles for the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025! ‘Neoclassical Realism, Global International Relations, and the unheard echoes of Realist practices from the South’ by @lucerioli.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/TTry1Yl @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The prize was judged independently by three members of our International Editorial Advisory Board, Prof. Roger Awan-Scully (Hong Kong Baptist University) Prof. Rosie Campbell (Kings College London) and Prof. Mark A. Pollack (Temple University). ⬇️

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #BJPIR John Peterson Best Article Prize for 2025 is ‘Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election’ by Chris Butler, Marta Miori, and Rob Ford. 🎉 Congratulations to our winners and runners up! 🔗 buff.ly/EwyGhl1

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Inside the ‘secret garden’: Candidate selection at the 2019 UK general election - Chris Butler, Marta Miori, Rob Ford, 2025

Candidate selections are seen as the ‘secret garden’ of UK politics. Hundreds of parliamentary constituencies rarely change hands, meaning that the ‘real electi...

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This new BJPIR article theorises hedging as comprising two distinct strategic logics – risk-mitigation and gains-maximisation – and shows how they generate different vulnerability profiles and outcome probabilities under intensifying great-power rivalry. ⬇️

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📈 Trending #openaccess article in #BJPIR: 'Bilateralism in multilateralism: France-Germany in Europe and the interlinking of institutional forms in Regional Order and World Politics' by Ulrich Krotz & @lucasschramm91.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/9qoS9uD @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📝 Don't miss one of our most cited #openaccess #BJPIR articles! 'Crisis politics of dehumanisation during COVID-19: A framework for mapping the social processes through which dehumanisation undermines human dignity' by @ssregilme.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/XeOjas3 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What makes IR Realism and contemporary ethno-nationalist politics compatible? In Cyclicality in Reactionary Internationalism, Michelsen&DeOrellana argue that Realism is amenable to reactionary deployment due to its cyclical assumptions about history. ⬇️

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Not all hedging is the same. Why do some smaller states successfully navigate intensifying great-power rivalry while others suffer severe setbacks? This new article distinguishes between risk-mitigation and gains-maximisation hedging and shows why the difference matters. ⬇️

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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📚New #OpenAccess article in PSA journal @bjpir.bsky.social exploring '‘Enemies of the people’: #DonaldTrump and the security imaginary of #AmericaFirst'👇

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Representations of nuclear risk in the UK Parliament: Understanding the role of political discourse in the development of preparedness activity for nuclear accidents' by Lianna Roast & Christopher Baker-Beall 🔗 buff.ly/Ozajoyu

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The long shadow of the past: How Irish history shapes attitudes towards the Israel–Palestine conflict' by Miceal Canavan & Liam Kneafsey 🔗 buff.ly/GzlW7JY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Risk mitigation versus gains maximisation – The two logics of smaller power hedging amid intensifying great power rivalry' by Alexander Korolev 🔗https://buff.ly/3py0VtQ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'Party organisation and the strategic use of federal narratives in electoral campaigns: Evidence from Assam, India' by Pratyush Paras Sarma 🔗 buff.ly/10iaUdx @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📈 Trending #openaccess article in #BJPIR: '‘Enemies of the people’: Donald Trump and the security imaginary of America First' by Georg Löfflmann 🔗 buff.ly/HtNZOMa @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Does populism challenge the status quo? Understanding transgression and subversion in contemporary politics' by Sebastian Ronderos & @emmyeklundh.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/3eLRCnY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In Cyclicality in Reactionary Internationalism, Michelsen&DeOrellana trace the intellectual history of cyclicality in IR and the Global New Right to explain the relationship between them as strategies to manage the problem of Western decline. 📣 New #BJPIR article out now! ⬇️

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Cyclicality in reactionary internationalism: A genealogy of Realist, Spenglerian, and New Right theories of historical change' by Nicholas Michelsen & @pablodeorellana.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/Ukfu7gK @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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