October 31st 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325, the first of ten resolutions which constitute the UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) thematic agenda. It remains a significant international policy agenda that seeks to highlight the gendered nature of armed conflict, prevent or address the uniquely pernicious impacts conflict has upon women, and promote women’s roles in peace and security.

In this episode, we talk to Professor Katrina Lee-Koo (The University of Queensland) about this important milestone, the research that has it has generated, the challenges it faces, and the articles she has curated for her RIS editor's selection.

Katrina’s selection can be found at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/special-collections/editors-selection-by-katrina-lee-koo

War and the moral and legal attempts to regulate it have a long history. In this episode, Dr Thomas Gregory (University of Auckland), talks to Dr Seb Kaempf, about his selection of key articles published in RIS which have tried to grapple with the phenomenon of regulating war.

In this episode we talk about 'global environmental issues', the editor’s selection put together for the Review by Professor Poppy S. Winanti from the Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Poppy’s editor’s selection can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/special-collections/editors-selection-by-poppy-winanti