19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026
In 2026, our flagship event will take place in Portugal, at the crossroads of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, offering a unique vantage point for exploring contemporary international relations. Following the remarkable success of PEC 2025 in Bologna, we will gather in Lisbon's inspiring scholarly environment at the ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon.
Company Profiles
Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading independent academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields. We publish 600 book and journal titles annually and have successfully created a prestigious list of over 10,000 titles. Contact person: Alex Pettifer Palgrave Macmillan World-Class publisher of books and jounrals.
Palgrave Macmillan publishes award-winning, peer-reviewed research for academics, professionals, and librarians.
Across the humanities, social sciences, and business, we publish around 2,00 books each year and over 40 journals. Contact person: Sabine Trollmann Springer. Serving the global research community. With a portfolio of over 2,700 journals and over 220,000 books, Springer is a global leader in academic and scientific publishing. We empower authors to share impactful research, enable readers to access trusted content, and collaborate with institutions and communities to advance knowledge worldwide. Whether you're publishing cutting-edge science or foundational texts, Springer provides the reach, credibility, and support to help your work make a lasting difference. Contact person: Sabine Trollmann Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, 24-year-old Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965. Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely. Contact person: Amy Appleyard - Senior Acquisitions EditorEdward Elgar Publishing
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Springer Nature
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The International Spectator
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The International Spectator is actively publishing since 1983 as the Journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali. Topics cover the entire spectrum of international affairs from ongoing international politics, economics and security affairs to emerging questions on the international agenda such as climate and energy, global migration and development. The International Spectator is strongly committed to gender balance and diversity, as reflected in its editorial and international advisory boards, and encourages submissions from scholars at all career stages and from all world regions. The journal currently has an impact factor of 1.6 and is ranked Q1 in Scopus CiteScore.
Contact person: Irene RusconiSage
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Bristol University Press
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Bristol University Press publishes world-class scholarship that shapes debates across the social sciences. Our international studies programme includes titles on security, peacebuilding, foreign policy, climate politics, gender and global justice, bringing together diverse perspectives to address today's most pressing global challenges. We particularly welcome work that is attentive to the dynamics of power and to otherwise marginalised voices that advances theory, knowledge and learning within and beyond academia.
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Contact person: Stephen WenhamEdinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press’s mission is to connect people and ideas to inspire creative thinking, open new perspectives and shape the world we live in. As one of the top university presses in the UK, it is committed to publishing world-class books and journals that amplify the critical role of the humanities and social sciences in shaping the way we think about and tackle global and local issues.
Contact person: Sarah Foyle
Provalis Research
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Provalis Research develops QDA Miner and WordStat, integrated tools for qualitative analysis, content analysis, and text mining. They support the systematic analysis of interviews, policy documents, political speeches, news, social media, and other multilingual text. New Generative AI features assist with coding, long-document analysis, summarization, information extraction, natural-language queries, and discourse assessment, while researchers retain full control over analytical decisions. Users can choose between leading cloud-based models, local on-device processing, or private institutional servers, ensuring data sovereignty and ethics compliance. More than 8,000 organizations worldwide use Provalis software to produce rigorous, reproducible insights from complex textual evidence. Stop by our table to see a live demo.
