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• Rohan Mukherjee features in the November 2022 edition of 杏吧论坛's Research for the World magazine. In 'Rising powers and their desire for status' he puts forward a new theory suggesting rising powers will often make material sacrifices to attain status on the international stage. However, if not treated equally, they will challenge this very order.
  
  His book Ascending order: Rising powers and the politics of status international relations has been reviewed in the journal Small States & Territories, Vol 5, No 2, November 2022. .
  
  He also joined Milan Vaichnav's podcast to talk about great power politics and why some rising nations challenge the international order. The duo also discuss China's surprisingly cooperative behavior and India's own grievances with the liberal international order. .
• Natalya Naqvi has jointly edited a special issue of Politics and Society,Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2022 entitled 'The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization'. .
• Robert Falkner was quoted in a BBC article on COP27 and commented on leadership during the global energy crisis -.
  
  He was also quoted in a following last month’s COP27 and comments on the actions global leaders have taken on climate change this year.
• Katharine Millar's book Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community is out in in Canada and the US. .
• Mathias Koenig-Archibugi co-authored an . Within the piece Dr Koenig-Archibugi and his authors illuminate their survey research and argue that global citizens want a 'stronger and more democratic United Nations'.
  
  He also co-authored a paper in the European Journal of International Relations titled 'Do international parliaments matter? An empirical analysis of influences on foreign policy and civil rights'. .
• Lauren Sukin and co-author Dr J. Luis Rodriguez (University of Stanford) highlighting how Russian actions at Zaporizhzhia shows the need for international law to provide better legal protections of nuclear installations.
• William A Callahan authored an 杏吧论坛 IDEAS blog titled which examines China-Russia relations through the lens of geopolitical geometries, analysing both current and historic ‘strategic triangles' and 'concentric circles' models.
  
  He was also quoted in an . In the piece, he highlights that with growing global security tensions, Beijing wants to position China as a world leader in hard politics, creating a “China-centred security system".
• PhD Candidate Mariah Thornton published an which explored the implications of China’s 20th National Congress. The piece examines how a new amendment to the CCP constitution demonstrates a significant escalation in the party’s approach to Taiwan.
  
  Italian news outlet Formiche republished her which is titled "National Security Bill: Newcounter-interference legislation shows UK has more to learn from Australia and Taiwan”. .
• Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow, Katerina Dalacoura, travelled to Edinburgh to give a lecture on her Leverhulme research project. The project focuses on Turkish Islamist thought about international relations and queries ‘Western’ & ‘non-Western’ in the context of global IR. 
• Kira Huju was quoted in the commenting on the UK/India relations. Dr Huju highlighted how the separation between domestic and global politics was getting “impossible to sustain” and that India’s growing might was bringing out a subliminal anxiety that underlies the ‘Global Britain’ narrative.
• Lukas Fiala, PhD Candidate and China Foresight Project Coordinator, featured in a Chemistry World article which examined the scientific collaboration between China and the West and the increasing stand-off between them. .
• Rohan Mukherjee featured in the TVO Today’s ‘The Agenda’ show. The show’s focus was India-Pakistan relations 75 years after Partition and covered the causes of Partition, its effects on India-Pakistan relations, and the potential for sports such as cricket to bridge the bilateral divide. .
• Dimitrios Stroikos was interviewed by AL24news. He was asked about the return of great power competition in space, the militarisation of space, space debris, and other important aspects of the global politics of space. (in Arabic).
  
  Read his latest publication for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies which is the first systematic attempt to outline the emerging and vibrant multidisciplinary subfield. 
• Sinja Graf's book (OUP) earned the 2022 from the European Consortium for Political Research
• Elisa Gambino has co-authored a paper with Dr Ricardo Reboredo (Metropolitan University Prague) in Area Development and Policy journal. The new paper titled, , critically analyses one of the most significant trends currently in progress throughout Africa: the massive increase in port infrastructure investment that the authors term the ‘Ports Race’.
• Lauren Sukin has co-authored a chapter in a new edited volume Is the International Legal Order Unravelling? edited David Sloss (Oxford University Press, 2022). The chapter is “War and Words: The International Use of Force in the UN Charter Era," with Allen Weiner.
• Natalya Naqvi has published a new article in European Journal of International Relations in August 2022. Read it here: She has also published another article in Politics and Society entitled .
• Dimitrios Stroikos has published a short essay for the think tank China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE) that deals with the current state of China-Greece relations. Read ‘’ 
• Mathias Koenig-Archibugi has been awarded an ESRC Standard Grant for an interdisciplinary research project on The Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance: An Empirical Analysis of Participation and Effectiveness.
• The International Studies Quarterly has published three articles by Mathias Koenig-Archibugi in Volume 66 (2022): ‘’, ‘’, and ‘’ (all Open Access).
• Dimitrios Stroikos' latest chapter is included in Tonny Brems Knudsen and Cornelia Navari (eds), Power Transition in the Anarchical Society: Rising Powers, Institutional Change and the New World Order (Palgrave 2022). Read .
• PhD candidate Stephen Paduano has published a new article in Foreign Policy which reflects on how the G-7's new $600 billion clean energy infrastructure can be improved to compete with China's Belt & Road Initiative and accelerate the global clean energy transition. Read 
• Ellen Alexandra Holtmaat has co-published an article for the journal Plos One on .
• Congratulations to IR Fellow Seebal Aboudounya who has been awarded a prestigious African Women Award for being a 'She Achiever in International Relations'.
  
  The award is for her achievements in International Relations, and specifically for being ‘an outstanding African Woman Achiever in International Relations’.
• In a recent publication for The Review of International Organizations, IR Fellow, Ben Cormier argues that less transparent governments contract more Chinese finance, for both supply and demand side reasons. Read 
• Congratulations to Sinja Graf whose book, (OUP, 2021), earned Honourable Mention for the 2022 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award on International History and Politics from the American Political Science Association.
• Tomila Lankina has published an analysis in The Washington Post on how the social divisions of Russia's imperial age still hamper opposition today. Read .
• Dimitrios Stroikos featured in  commenting on a Chinese study which called for the development of methods to destroy Starlink satellites. 
• PhD Candidate Bruno Binetti and co-author Michael Shifter’s recent article,  published in Foreign Affairs, examines the changing relationship between the US and Latin America, analysing how Washington can reset relations with a region that needs it less. Read: . 
• Fawaz Gerges appeared as a guest last week on CNN International Europe discussing ongoing US-Saudi Arabia relations and the planned meeting between President Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince.
• PhD candidate Anne Della Guardia, and Milli Lake, have co-authored an article in World Development. Read .
• Milli Lake has co-authored an article for the Political Science and Politics journal. Read .
• PhD candidate Asha Herten-Crabb, together with Dr Clare Wenham, has published a paper on women’s experiences in the UK during the first two waves of COVID. Read in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.
• PhD candidate Enrike van Wingerden has published an article which provides a modest critique of positionality, theorising how we come to know things through our bodies and how knowledge is therefore always partly beyond our control. Read  in International Political Sociology.
• PhD candidate Samuel Dixon has published an essay which asks why IR historians have overlooked the late twentieth century and makes a case for the period's relevancy. Read  on the BISA website.
• Dimitrios Stroikos has published an article on Sino-Greek relations which argues that while China has achieved some limited political gains, the relationship remains mainly economics-driven while Greece strengthens strategic ties with traditional allies. Read  in Journal of Contemporary China. 
• A new article by Elisa Gambino explores various spheres of African state agency in China-Africa engagement & how these shape infrastructure projects with Chinese participation. Read  in Chinese Political Science Review. 

• Congratulations to Robert Falkner whose book  (CUP) has been .

  The Susan Strange Best Book Prize is awarded for an outstanding book published in any field of International Studies. The aim of the Prize is to honour the work of Susan Strange and to recognise outstanding current work being conducted in the discipline.

  The winner will be announced at the BISA annual conference in June.

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