Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA

The 2026 ISA Annual Convention in Columbus is just a few weeks away. Time to celebrate some great scholarship. 🎉 We are excited to announce the 2026 FPA Section Award winners and highlight a few events you will not want to miss. 🧵

Other events to add to your schedule: ☕ FPA Methods Café Monday, 4 to 5:45 PM, session MD40 🥂 Joint reception with PDG and SSIP Tuesday, 7:15 to 8:15 PM, Hilton.

📍 Join us at the FPA Section Business Meeting Tuesday, 12:30 to 1:30 PM, Franklin B, Hyatt. We will present the awards and share updates on section initiatives, including the new Emerging Scholar Award.

The 2026 ISA Annual Convention in Columbus is just a few weeks away. Time to celebrate some great scholarship. 🎉 We are excited to announce the 2026 FPA Section Award winners and highlight a few events you will not want to miss. 🧵

"How do authoritarian actors navigate the liberal international order, adopting democratic facades without committing to democratic principles?" Federico Salvati engages with this question in our latest issue! Out now, and #OpenAccess 📘 👉 buff.ly/DdO3S1R

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN International Politics/(Un)Ethical Worlds: Morality, Power, Resistance and the Aesthetics of Politics in Dark Times. 20th-21st July 2026 │In-Person @StAndrewsIR Keynotes: @SeanMolloyIR @JSouter2 Call closes: 20th April 2026 forms.office.com/pages/response…

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Getmansky, Matakos and Sinmazdemir (2026) show how humanitarian concerns of host societies towards refugees persist in contexts of mass displacement and economic strain, based on an original conjoint experiment of Turkish residents. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/or…

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Ha and Park (2026) develop theoretical explanations for how financial sanctions alter banking markets, showing they can induce greater market concentration in target economies. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/or…

Urtuzuastigui, Bsisu, and Vernallis (2025) show that military sanctions tend to reduce refugee flows by constraining violence against civilians, while economic sanctions increase displacement by intensifying civilian exploitation. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…

New paper out with Benjamin Martill & AlanConvery in @BritJPIR We used Leadership Trait Analysis on UK PM Keir Starmer. Turns out he's much tougher than the "cautious technocrat" image suggests🧵 @EdinburghPIR journals-sagepub-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1177/13…

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Wu (2025) shows that European populist radical right governments diverge in their China policies due to differences in transnational business ties and executive centralization, despite sharing similar ideological foundations. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/22…

Welcome to the new editorial team!

The Conversation features a new piece by an FPA Editorial Team member, @ahmed_bulbul_, on how the UN is reinventing peacekeeping, with Haiti as the testing ground. Please read it here: theconversation.com/the-un-is-rein…

Yang (2025) argues that U.S. political and military influence has a Janus-faced effect on protégés’ latent nuclear capabilities—first bolstering them for deterrence, then constraining further development as their programs advance. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…

Girard and Wilhelm (2025) show that Americans turn against data localization policies when economic costs are emphasized, while sovereignty-based frames have little effect and ethnocentrism—not geopolitics—drives evaluations of related trade agreements. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…

Our project's first article has just been published 🎉. It compares foreign policy roles expressed in President Obama's and President Trump's UNGA Speeches. dergipark.org.tr/en/download/ar… @FPA_Research @cfppr @uikonseyi @baris_kesgin @OzgurOzdamar Here is a short synopsis: