The NISA Executive Committee invited the entire Nordic community of IR scholars as well as friends of the Nordics to a (spontaneous) lunch reception during the 2023 ISA annual conference in Montreal. After a short speech by the President, food and beverages were offered to a large crowd of people. We hope to repeat the
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The panelists discussed foreign policy shifts among Nordic Countries in the wake of Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine. The panel was chaired by Torunn L. Tryggestad from the Peace Research Institute, Oslo and the participants were Niklas Bremberg (Stockholm University & Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Nina Graeger (University of Copenhagen), Tuomas Forsberg (Tampere University),
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The Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) is looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of NISA’s journal Cooperation and Conflict (CoCo) on 1 June 2023 and for a four-year period. Coco has a tradition for publishing on Nordic and European Affairs. The NISA board wishes to further strengthen the journal’s reputation
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The NISA Executive Committee is pleased to announce an open call for a NISA-sponsored academic Symposium aimed at early-career academics. The Symposium will take place in Copenhagen in mid-December 2023. Please see below for more information. OPEN CALL Early-Career NISA Symposium for PhDs and Postdocs, 13.-15 December 2023: The European Security Order Following Russia's
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In December, 2023, NISA welcomed 17 early career researchers from several different Nordic institutions to its first NISA Young Scholar Symposium.
The Norwegian and Icelandic members of the executive committee have organized a NISA roundtable on the status and future of the originally Feminist foreign policy agenda at this year’s annual ISA conference: Feminist foreign policy: Nordic hegemony in decline? WA21: Wednesday 8:15 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Golden Gate 5, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
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Communities of Practice: Reflections on the state of IR in the Nordic Region The Executive Committee of the Nordic International Studies Association (NISA) is pleased to invite you to a reception during the ISA annual conference. To kick off the reception, we will have a panel discussion with the editors of a fresh off the press special
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The Call for Papers and Panels for the 2025 FISA Conference has been extended until 13 September. The eighth triannual conference organized by the The Finnish International Studies Association provides a comprehensive, timely, and multidisciplinary overview of the state of International Relations research, bringing together researchers and actors within the field of international politics. The conference will be held at
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The Finnish International Studies Association (FISA) organises its eighth triannual FISA Conference in cooperation with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Ministry of Defence of Finland, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and the Foundation for Foreign Policy Research. The conference provides a comprehensive, timely, and multidisciplinary overview of the state of
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Call for Abstracts Nordic International Relations in Times of Global Ruptures A Symposium for Doctoral Researchers and Early-Career Researchers Åland Islands, Hotel Arkipelag, 19–21 August 2026 Aim The symposium will continue a long-standing tradition of Nordic International Relations meetings with a particular focus on PhD students and early career scholars. Its objectives are to: Provide
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