April 24, 2026 Call for proposals: Panel at the 2027 ISA conferenceThe Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is inviting panel or roundtable proposals for the 2027 ISA Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, 21-24 March 2027. On behalf of the ECPR, a partner institution of the ISA, the SGIR will be able to put forward one panel or roundtable at the convention.
From the Standing Group on International RelationsThe Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is inviting panel or roundtable proposals for the 2027 ISA Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, 21-24 March 2027. On behalf of the ECPR, a partner institution of the ISA, the SGIR will be able to put forward one panel or roundtable at the convention. Submissions from across the entire International Relations discipline are welcome. We will prioritize proposals with the potential to engage a broad audience and that reflect the diversity of the discipline. We especially welcome submissions from PhD candidates, early career researchers, and from applicants underrepresented in the field. All proposals need to conform to ISA submission requirements. Please note, we can endorse panels and roundtables, not individual paper submissions.
Please send your proposal by 20 May 2026 6PM GMT to the SGIR committee, via email to Lora Anne Viola (lora.viola@fu-berlin.de).
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
January 30, 2025 SGIR Steering Committee election resultsFollowing the recent online vote, we can confirm that six group members have been elected to the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on International Relations.
Introducing the committee members
 Maria Ferreira is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences where she is also the Executive Director of the PhD in International Relations. She is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies. Maria holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Lisbon (2010). Her research interests include European Politics, Migration Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations Theories, and Discourse Analysis. Maria is particularly interested in how public policies are social constructions legitimized through discursive practices.
 Osman Kiratli is an associate professor of International Relations at the Waseda Institute of Advanced Study at Waseda University, Tokyo. Previously, he was an associate professor at Bogazici University, Istanbul. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science in the track of International Relations from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA. His academic expertise covers subjects such as international political economy, international organizations, political behaviour, foreign aid, and European Union and Turkish politics. His primary research areas are public opinion on foreign aid, international organizations (IOs), international trade, and conflict.
 Rohan Mukherjee is an assistant professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Deputy Director of LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of LSE. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and the National Bureau of Asian Research in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was an assistant professor of political science at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and have been a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MIT. He holds a PhD in politics from Princeton University, a master’s in international development from Princeton, and a bachelor's in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford.
 Raphael Oidtmann currently serves as a parliamentary and legal advisor at the State Parliament of Hesse, Germany. Moreover, he maintains various academic appointments as adjunct lecturer in international law at Mannheim Law School, as associate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and as Global Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He previously served at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and held positions as a research fellow and lecturer in international (criminal) law at the universities of Mannheim and Mainz. Holding master’s degrees in political science, international and comparative law, and international relations, respectively, he currently is an external PhD candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt.
 Bernhard Reinsberg is a Professor of International Political Economy and Development and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He is also a Research Fellow in Political Economy at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Zurich. His research broadly covers the political economy of international organisations—such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund—and seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the socio-political effects of their interventions in the Global South.
 Lora Anne Viola is Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago. Her research areas include IR theory, international organizations, institutional change, institutional legitimacy and inequality, and US foreign policy. Recent book publications include The Closure of the International System (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance (Routledge Studies in Surveillance, 2021). Her work has been the recipient of ECPR's Hedley Bull Prize, ISA's Chadwick Alger Best Book Award, ISA’s Diplomatic Studies Best Book Award, APSA’s Jervis Schroeder Honourable Mention Award, and APSA’s Alexander George Award.
September 13, 2024 SGIR co-funding guidelinesThe ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) invites applications from its members for co-funding events benefiting the internationalisation of IR scholarship in Europe. Applications can be submitted on a rolling basis.
From the Standing Group on International Relations.
The ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) invites applications from its members for co-funding events benefiting the internationalisation of IR scholarship in Europe. Applications can be submitted on a rolling basis.
Further information about the funding available and how to apply can be found by following the link below.
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