Policy Press

Welcome to our European International Studies Association virtual stand

In place of being able to be at the EISA conference this year, we have created this virtual space so that we can connect with everyone we would have met there.

Find all the book and journal highlights we would have had on our stand below, including:


View a message below from Stephen Wenham, Publisher in Politics and International Relations:

You can book an appointment with Stephen between 9 and 11 September to talk about publishing projects or get in touch at stephen.wenham@bristol.ac.uk. Visit our Author Hub for more information on publishing with us.

Download our Politics and International Relations subject flyer.

50% OFF ALL OUR POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BOOKS UNTIL 11TH SEPTEMBER

All of our Politics and International Relations books are available with 50% discount until 11th September. Use promo code POEISA20 at the check out. Sign up to our newsletter and receive a code for 35% off all books purchased on our website all year round.

New series: Spaces of Peace, Security and Development 

View two messages below from the series editors and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Mortan Bøås, editors for the book. Find out more about the series here. 


Spaces of Peace, Security and Development


The first two books in the series, Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention, and Surviving Everyday Life, are 50% off until 11th September using promo code POEISA20.

Coming this September: It's the Government, Stupid


It's the Government, Stupid by Keith Dowding.

Global Discourse

Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy.  

The journal’s special issue The Limits of EUrope: Identities, Spaces, Values guest edited by Russell Foster and Jan Grzymski, is free to download until 30 September. This issue includes: 

Theorising the EU in crisis: de-Europeanisation as disintegration
By Ben Rosamond

Entering the 'post-shame era': the rise of illiberal democracy, populism and neo-authoritarianism in Europe
By Ruth Wodak

Explore the full issue here.

Sign up to the Global Discourse newsletter to be notified of new issues and special free content offers.  

Matthew Johnson, editor of Global Discourse, talks about upcoming issues of the journal and an open call for issue ideas.

The European Journal of Politics and Gender

The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) has created a free gender reading list for our autumn conference season. This reading list explores violence against women in politics, interrogates the gender gap in political ambition and features award-winning research from the journal.

The gender reading list is available for free until 30 September. 

The reading list includes:

The special issue - Rethinking the ambition gap: gender and candidate emergence in comparative perspective
Guest Edited by Jennifer M. Piscopo and Meryl Kenny

Violence against women in politics: emerging perspectives, new challenges
Author: Malin Holm

Bringing epistemology into intersectional methodology – winner of the Canadian Political Science Association's Jill Vickers prize
Author: Alexie Labelle

Explore the full Gender Reading List

The EJPG best paper award

We are pleased to announce that the 2020 Best Article Award for the European Journal of Politics and Gender has been awarded to Saskia Glas and Niels Spierings for their article Support for feminism among highly religious Muslim citizens in the Arab region. As a reward, the article has been made Open Access.

According to the Award Committee, Glas and Spiering's article is an important contribution to the feminist literature and has relevance for political and social debates on gender, feminism, and religion in the Arab world.

Learn more about this award winning research.

Policy & Politics: A world-leading political science journal

Policy & Politics is now ranked in the top ten international journals in Public Administration and in the top twenty in Political Science according to the Journal Citation Reports. The journal’s Impact Factor of 3.069 confirms its position as a world-leading publication, committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation. 

Read the journal Highlight collection including: 

When design meets power: design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking [Open Access] 
By Jenny M Lewis, Michael McGann, and Emma Blomkamp 

Pick up catalogues and flyers

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    Autumn 2020 catalogue

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    Politics and International Relations

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    Bristol Studies in East Asian International Relations

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    Bristol Studies in International Theory

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    Spaces of Peace, Security and Development

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    Transnational Administration and Global Policy

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