Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dr Georgina Holmes, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting the BISA Conference 2021. The last time Reading held a BISA…Read More >

Our Head of Department, Dr Mark Shanahan, is our resident Trump expert, and was called on regularly during the election campaign to discuss his thoughts. In mid-October he wrote for…Read More >

Be among the first to discuss feminist and gender theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, in our new Feminist Theory Reading Group. We are bringing together a…Read More >

Two of our colleagues within the Department have recently contributed to the edited book United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory. Edited by Kseniya Oksamytna and John Karslrud, the book…Read More >

Cait Pilkington interviews Dr Mark Shanahan on what emerged from the recent Party Conventions in the US, and what we should be looking out for as election day (November 3)…Read More >

International Organisation crucially depend on the legitimation and support of their member states, but which states legitimate IOs, and why? Dr Martin Binder and Prof. Monika Heupel look at this…Read More >

Our PhD student Lydia Messling, who recently successfully completed her Viva, was quoted in an Inside Science article entitled ‘When Physics Faced the Darkest Part of Reality’. Check it out…Read More >

Dr Geoff Sloan has written for the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) on ‘The Geopolitics of Post-Brexit Britain’ You can check it out here: https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/06/the-geopolitics-of-post-brexit-britain/

Dr Kerry Goettlich’s encyclopedia article on IR’s narratives explaining (mostly implicitly) the globalisation of linear borders is out now: https://www.academia.edu/43322683/The_Rise_of_Linear_Borders

The Department’s formidable Dr Sarah von Billerbeck‘s new article ‘No Action Without Talk? UN Peacekeeping, Discourse, and Institutional Self-Legitimisation’ is available now You can check it out here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/no-action-without-talk-un-peacekeeping-discourse-and-institutional-selflegitimation/C237FE9973BA9C8F21D2B53CFFB351F4