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24 British J. Pol. & Int'l Rel. 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/bhjlplcs24 and id is 1 raw text is: Political Studies B JP1I Editorial =!!!:Asato The British Journal of Politics and Editorial: British political 2V. o © The Author(s) 2021 studies and the politics Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions of global challenges DOI: 10.1177/13691481211063400 journals.sagepub.com/homne/bpi OSAGE Under the astute stewardship of editorial teams based successively at Birmingham, Nottingham, Queen's, and Edinburgh universities, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) has established itself as a journal of international signifi- cance, at the forefront of major disciplinary debates. We are particularly grateful for the work of the Edinburgh team in especially challenging circumstances. Those of us lucky enough to witness the late John Peterson in action understand the size of the shoes that the team had to fill, and they did so very effectively. Assuming the editorship of BJPIR is a great privilege and a significant responsibility. As the new editors, we aim to build on BJPIR's already impressive standing and further expand its international reach and reputation. To do this, our vision for the journal is prem- ised upon two overriding concerns. First, we will extend BJPIR's long-held reputation - as a flagship journal of the United Kingdom's Political Studies Association (PSA) - for driv- ing forward the research agenda in British politics and political studies. Specifically, to achieve this, our vision for BJPIR while it is at Leeds dovetails the strategic vision for the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and is to position 'BJPIR' at thefore- front ofscholarly efforts to understand and address the politics of global challenges, such as climate, health, violence, and geopolitics. Second, we will use our editorship to help further much-needed structural change in the academy. Working with the PSA, we will support the discipline-wide effort towards gender parity, and improve the journal's repre- sentation of under-represented minority groups, scholars from the Global South, and early career researchers. These twin aims work in synergy; we are ambitious in our plans to expand the journal's scope so that BJPIR serves a wider community of scholars. In keeping with the journal's distinctive history, BJPIR will continue to provide a forum for a diversity of approaches. Our vision is empirically, theoretically, and meth- odologically pluralist. We value and will continue to support work across thefull breadth of the fields of international relations (IR), comparative politics, public policy, political theory, political economy, and politics, as well as genuinely interdisciplinary research agendas. This is reflected in the range of expertise of the Leeds editorial team, located in POLIS, which represents one of the largest and most diverse political studies departments in the country. In this Editorial Statement, we elaborate on these mutually reinforcing areas in turn, before returning to consider our role in addressing academic structural inequalities. British politics and political studies The landscape of British politics looked rather different when BJPIR was first published at the end of the 20th century. Despite the prominence of the European question, few observers regarded the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union as a