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Jack Holland
@profjackholland.bsky.social
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Work = Professor. IR, security, terrorism. US, UK, Australia (so, AUKUS). Discourse, culture, narrative etc. Pro-Dean Research. Edit BJPIR. Own views. https://profjackholland.com

Life = Dad, mainly. Like Arsenal, running, beer, and 90's guitars .. more

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 3d
Nominations are open now for our Susan Strange Best Book Prize honouring the work of Susan Strange! 🎉

It's important to note that self nominations are now allowed - check all eligibility requirements below! 🌟

👉 https://ow.ly/FRXO50Y04A9

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 12d
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!!
Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Participant registration deadline: 2 March
See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 17d
Nominations for our annual BISA prizes have opened today! 🎉

Recognising excellence & achievement through research & teaching in the field of International Studies! 🌟

Open until the 3 February & presented at our annual conference find all info here 👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes
BISA annual prizes nomination call highlighting awards for distinguished contribution, thesis, books, working group, EDI, and teaching with a February 3, 2026 deadline.

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · 18d
Just before Xmas, Laura C and I had career firsts:

2 PhD students successfully defended their theses on the same day, passing their vivas.

Very many congrats to Dr Laura Rose Brown and Dr Charles Gray!

And very many thanks to the internals (Louise and Olaf) and externals (Catherine and Kyle)
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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · 18d
some journal/ed. data:

as one of BJPIR's editors, so far I have processed 330 articles in an average of 19.73 days

we are nearly 3/4 of the way through a 6-year term and the submission rate is increasing (a lot)

this is furthered by our current impact factor (3.4) which ranks us 14th in IR

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Do Young LEE @doyoung-lee.bsky.social · 24d
Thrilled to share that my article has been published
@bjpir.bsky.social sky.social In this piece, I explain why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries from invading those allies in the context of extended deterrence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... [1/10]
Why reassuring allies is harder than deterring adversaries in extended deterrence: Evidence from US extended deterrence for South Korea - Do Young Lee, 2025
In extended deterrence, a nuclear patron assumes a dual role: reassuring its clients while deterring adversaries. Policymakers and scholars widely recognise tha...
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Dec 10
*NEW BLOG* What do the most-cited articles in PSA's journal BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social tell us about the (changing?) discipline(s) as PSA reflects on its 75th anniversary?
➡️ @profjackholland.bsky.social has narrowed it down to 48 most cited articles!
➡️ Find out which ones they are
Reflections on BJPIR’s Most Cited Articles | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Nov 12
BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – The new dimensions of foreign policy (1975!) with Professor Jack Holland 🌟

Looking back at the themes of the first BISA conference, which took place in 1975. 🎉

Read here now 👉 https://ow.ly/RqvL50Xqolq

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BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – The new dimensions of foreign policy (1975!)
Professor Jack Holland looks back at the themes of the first BISA conference, which took place in 1975.
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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Nov 9
Is Blue Sky popular with academics because you publish something and nobody reads it?

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Oct 31
Lots of great #AUKUS research in @austjia.bsky.social, including a great forthcoming SI which will house this paper
austjia.bsky.social Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · Sep 17
🚨New online! Jack Holland discusses the "silent whiteness" and "racialised warfare" that underpins AUKUS and calls for "open debate on the problematic underpinnings of AUKUS". #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
ABSTRACT Existing studies of AUKUS have explored the security partnership's geopolitics, diplomatic fallout, and technological potentials. However, they have not considered the foundational importance of historical, racialised warfare. Indeed, mainstream International Relations theories tend to exclude race as a formative influence on world order building and AUKUS' political elites display 'silent whiteness'. For both, the ties that bind remain unspoken. To remedy this, the article theorises the affective politics of racialised military superiority, and the productive role played by Anglosphere aphasia, as both combine to make possible AUKUS' contemporary security possibilities. The article draws on a large comparative computer-aided content analysis, coupled to thirty-five elite interviews, which together enable a narratological analysis of racialised violence and constructivist analysis of contemporary security silences. It concludes by calling for a new, critical research agenda, and urgent, open debate on the problematic underpinnings of AUKUS—an unspoken formative ontology of recurrent, imbalanced, and racialised conflict.

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Oct 31
European responses to the Russia-Ukraine war - the whole special issue is now available here:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/BPI/curr...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Oct 30
This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨

Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉

Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Oct 20
#Trump on #Rudd: "I don't like you and I probably never will"

Brutal.

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Oct 20
#Trump on #AUKUS: "full steam ahead".

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Sep 24
🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

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Conference social media card with the BISA logo, #BISA2026, Brighton, UK, 3-5 June, submission deadline: 3 November, conference.bisa.ac.uk

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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · Sep 17
🚨New online! Jack Holland discusses the "silent whiteness" and "racialised warfare" that underpins AUKUS and calls for "open debate on the problematic underpinnings of AUKUS". #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️
ABSTRACT Existing studies of AUKUS have explored the security partnership's geopolitics, diplomatic fallout, and technological potentials. However, they have not considered the foundational importance of historical, racialised warfare. Indeed, mainstream International Relations theories tend to exclude race as a formative influence on world order building and AUKUS' political elites display 'silent whiteness'. For both, the ties that bind remain unspoken. To remedy this, the article theorises the affective politics of racialised military superiority, and the productive role played by Anglosphere aphasia, as both combine to make possible AUKUS' contemporary security possibilities. The article draws on a large comparative computer-aided content analysis, coupled to thirty-five elite interviews, which together enable a narratological analysis of racialised violence and constructivist analysis of contemporary security silences. It concludes by calling for a new, critical research agenda, and urgent, open debate on the problematic underpinnings of AUKUS—an unspoken formative ontology of recurrent, imbalanced, and racialised conflict.

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Sep 12
Been very impressed with the standard of papers and panels at #apsa2025 - happy to chat if you’re keen to submit to @bjpir.bsky.social

Vancouver is also lovely - from flying in over the mountains to watching seaplanes taking off outside the conference

Brutal jet lag making the 8am panels easy!

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Sep 10
🎉 Our #BISA2026 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉

Have a look at our call for papers down below - submissions for papers open on the 24th of September 🌟

We are so excited - more here 👉 conference.bisa.ac.uk

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BISA logo, #BISA2026, Brighton, UK, 3-5 June, conference.bisa.ac.uk

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Jonna Nyman @jknyman.bsky.social · Aug 27
I’ll be presenting tomorrow at 14.00 on Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative and then at 16.00 I’m on a Global IR panel talking about my forthcoming OUP book, Securing China: Worlding Security Studies #EISAPEC2025 come join!

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Aug 26
Ordering breakfast in Bologna #EISAPEC2025

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Aug 26
Strong opening panel at #EISAPEC2025!

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · Aug 19
I am excited to share that I'll be presenting three times next week as part of the @europeanisa.bsky.social Pan European Conference. Please reach out if you're an IR or Security Studies scholar with an interest in race and IR or anticolonial theory. It'll be my first time there #EISAPEC2025

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POLIS at Leeds @polisatleeds.bsky.social · Jan 6
Professor Jason Ralph recently joined the Hayseed Scholar podcast to talk about his path from school through university and into academia:

open.spotify.com/episode/3ByM...
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The Hayseed Scholar Podcast · Episode
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Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Jul 1
*PSA PUBLICATIONS* 🎉 We are delighted to report that PSA journals have registered important growth, visibility and impact across #PoliticalScience and #InternationalRelations impact rankings @sagepub.com @polstudies.bsky.social @bjpir.bsky.social @politicsjournal.bsky.social.
PSA’s journals grow in impact, visibility & influence | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
The recently published 2024 Clarivate results show improvements in the rankings and impact factors for all four of the PSA’s journals.In reaction to this outcome, PSA Chief Executive Michelle Doyle…
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Mar 17
⭐️Become a BISA trustee!⭐️

We are thrilled to announce that we have six trustee positions up for election to the BISA Executive Committee.

Find further details here - www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-no...

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#trusteeelection
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Call for nominations to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025
We're pleased to announce we have six trustee positions up for election to the Executive Committee.
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · Jul 16
📣 Have you heard? The BJPIR has achieved a new Impact Factor of 3.4!

This achievement is also reflected in our rankings:
📌 14th out of 169 in International Relations
📌 36th out of 322 in Political Science

Thank you for your support!

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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Jul 4
BJPIR is 14th in IR

Thanks to a great team

Will have a beer to celebrate

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POLIS at Leeds @polisatleeds.bsky.social · Jun 20
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) has achieved an outstanding score of 3.4 for its impact factor for 2024! 🥳 It also achieved a ranking of 14/169 in the International Relations category, and 36/322 in Political Science 🎊

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#BJPIR #Impact

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Apr 24
🌟 Nominations close tonight!🌟
Last chance to submit your applications to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025.
Deadline - 11.59pm (UK time) TONIGHT.
link - buff.ly/ErPLmMh
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Call for nominations to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025
We're pleased to announce we have six trustee positions up for election to the Executive Committee.
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Jack Holland @profjackholland.bsky.social · Apr 14
In Oxford today to visit a few libraries. Enjoying the guidance of previous readers!