MIT Press Journals - International Security

Steven E. Miller, Editor-in-Chief
Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Owen R. Coté Jr., Editors
Diane J. McCree, Managing Editor

International Security publishes lucid, well-documented essays on the full range of contemporary security issues. Its articles address traditional topics such as war and peace, as well as more recent dimensions of security, including the growing importance of environmental, demographic, and humanitarian issues, and the rise of global terrorist networks.

International Security has defined the debate on US national security policy and set the agenda for scholarship on international security affairs for forty years. For many years, International Security has been consistently at or near the top of the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor rankings of all international relations journals. It also ranks #1 among journals of military studies according to Google Scholar.

Readers of IS discover new developments in:

The causes and prevention of war
Ethnic conflict and peacekeeping
Terrorism and homeland security
European, Asian, and regional security
U.S. foreign policy
Arms control and weapons proliferation
International relations theory
Diplomatic and military history

International Security is published by the MIT Press for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

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Rankings:

• #1 in Military Studies
(2015 Google Scholar Metrics)
• #1 in International Relations
(2014 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports)
• A* in Policy and Administration and Political Science
(2013 Australian Political Science Association Journal Rankings)

Congratulations to Mark S. Bell, whose article in the Summer 2015 issue of International Security has won the prestigious Patricia Weitsman Award.

Podcasts:

Episode 22: Peter Krause on structure and national movement effectiveness

Episode 21: Lucas Kello on the cyber revolution and security

Episode 19: Mary E. Sarrote on Tiananmen Square and European example

Episode 15: David Ekbladh on Edward Mead Earle and Depression-Era security studies

Episode 13: Michael Beckley on China's economy

Episode 6: John Schuessler on FDR, WWII, and deceit

BATCHES from International Security for your Kindle:

World War I: 100 Years Later: Ten selections analyzing WWI through the lenses of society, choice, causes and effects, and economics.

Responding to Terrorism: Eleven selections assessing the roots, effectiveness, and future of terrorism, the extent of the terrorist threat, and the debate over how the United States should respond to terrorist leaders.

The United States and China: Ten selections investigating such topics as China’s financial influence and naval nationalism; unipolarity and international order; and the danger of crisis instability in U.S.-China Relations.

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Nonproliferation and Proliferation: Strategies and Outcomes

Correspondence