On the last day of BISA 2026, Prof. Kimberly Hutchings came and spoke with Marianna (University of Birmingham, @Faloulah) and Kieran (University of St. Andrews ⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) about her keynote speech at the conference. In this she explores violence, non-violence, peace, whether non-violence is always possible, advice to early career researchers and much more.

Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Professor Hutchings works in the area of political and international theory and philosophy and has developed ideas in the areas of international ethics, feminist philosophy and international political theory. Her books include Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon, co-edited with Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler and Sarah Dunstan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022); Violence and Political Theory, co-authored with Elizabeth Frazer (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020); Can Political Violence Ever be Justified? Co-authored with Elizabeth Frazer (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019).

Thinking Global’s episodes on Women’s International Thought Towards a New Canon featuring Professor Kimberly Hutchings with Professor Patricia Owens, Dr. Katharina Rietzler, Professor Kimberly Hutchings, and Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan can be found: Part 1 and Part 2.

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This week, Thinking Borders, hosted by Marianna Karakoulaki, returns with an interview with Professor Vicki Squire. In this episode, Marianna and Professor Squire discuss migration, borders, normalisation of death, the ethical responsibilities of scholars, activism, her most recent book Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship, published by Edinburgh University Press and more.

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Professor Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics at the University of Warwick. Her work cuts across the fields of migration, citizenship, humanitarian and border studies with a focus on policies and practices through which migration is governed, the dynamics and consequences of humanitarian practice in contexts of displacement, and the politics of migration and solidarity activism. Her recent work includes Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Precarious Migration (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), “You already know enough: Certainty and Ignorance in Data-Driven Humanitarianism” (with B. Jones), Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's 'Migrant Crisis' (Manchester: Manchester University Press with N. Perkowski, D. Stevens, and N. Vaughan-Williams) and Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

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On this week’s episode of the Thinking Global Podcast, Prof. T.V. Paul speaks with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this episode two of two, on his advice for early career researchers, international security, artificial intelligence in the classroom, and much more.

Professor T.V. Paul (@tvpaul1) is Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the President of International Studies Association (ISA) for 2016-17. He is the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC) and a Distinguished Scholar at Asia-Pacific Foundation, Canada. Paul is the author or editor of 24 books, co-editor of 6 special journal issues, and author of over 90 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, Peace & Peaceful Change, International Security, and South Asia. He is the author of the books: The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, 2024); Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018); The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013); Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021). Paul currently serves as the editor of the Georgetown University Press book series: South Asia in World Affairs. The several awards he has received include:the inaugural Kim Dae-jung Award by the International Political Science Association (IPSA), 2025 (named after former South Korean President and Nobel Laureate for Peace); the 2024 International Studies Association (ISA)-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2025 International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor T.V. Paul chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this first episode of two about his journey into academia, international security, Asian regional security, Indian foreign policy, and much more.

Professor T.V. Paul (@tvpaul1) is Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as the President of International Studies Association (ISA) for 2016-17. He is the Founding Director of the Global Research Network on Peaceful Change (GRENPEC) and a Distinguished Scholar at Asia-Pacific Foundation, Canada.

Paul is the author or editor of 24 books, co-editor of 6 special journal issues, and author of over 90 scholarly articles/book chapters in the fields of International Relations, Peace & Peaceful Change, International Security, and South Asia. He is the author of the books: The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (Oxford University Press, 2024); Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era (Yale University Press, 2018); The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 2013); Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers( Cambridge University Press, 1994). He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021). Paul currently serves as the editor of the Georgetown University Press book series: South Asia in World Affairs. The awards he has received include: the inaugural Kim Dae-jung Award by the International Political Science Association (IPSA), 2025 (named after former South Korean President and Nobel Laureate for Peace); the 2024 International Studies Association (ISA)-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2025 International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award.

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This week on Thinking Global, Professor Trine Flockhart (European University Institute), Dr. Aaron C. McKeil (London School of Economics and Political Science), and Dr. Zachary Paikin (@zpaikin – Quincy Institute) speak with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) about Disorder, Contestation and the project of ‘Rebooting’ Global International Society. In this episode, Prof. Flockhart and Dr. Paikin revisit their 2022 edited volume Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience and Dr. McKeil explores the themes of his recent work on disorder and his 2025 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder. Kieran’s review of the latter can be found in International Affairs, 102(1).

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Professor Trine Flockhart is a full-time professor at the European University Institute, holding the Chair in Security Studies at the Florence School of Transnational Governance. She is currently on leave from the University of Southern Denmark, where she was a Professor of International Relations, Chair of Social Science in the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies (D-IAS) and Co-Director of the Center for War Studies. Professor Flockhart’s current research focuses on global (dis)order and processes of change and transformation, the crisis in the liberal international order, NATO and transatlantic relations, ontological security, constructivism, English School theory, and resilience.

Dr. Aaron McKeil is Academic Director, Programme Convenor and Course Tutor on the MSc International Strategy and Diplomacy programme at LSE IDEAS. He also produced 'A Short History of IDEAS' in 2018 to celebrate LSE IDEAS' ten-year anniversary.

Dr. Zachary Paikin is deputy director of the Better Order Project and research fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also senior fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD), a Canadian international affairs think tank. Previously, Dr. Paikin was researcher in EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels from 2021 to 2023 and senior researcher in the International Security Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 2023 to 2024.

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This week, Thinking Borders, hosted by Marianna Karakoulaki, returns with an interview with Professor Thomas Nail. In this episode Marianna and Professor Nail discuss the philosophy of movement, the fluidity of borders, migration, border technologies, kinopolitics, border regimes and more.

Professor Thomas Nail is a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of numerous books, including the Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Marx in Motion, Theory of the Image, Theory of the Earth, Returning to Revolution, and Being and Motion among others. His research focuses on the philosophy of movement.

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