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| Discipline | International and national security, International relations |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Steven E. Miller |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1976–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 4.135 (2017) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Int. Secur. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0162-2889 (print) 1531-4804 (web) |
| JSTOR | 01622889 |
| OCLC no. | 44911437 |
| Links | |
International Security is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of international and national security. It was founded in 1976 [1] and is edited by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and published four times a year by MIT Press, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The current editor-in-chief is Steven E. Miller (Harvard).
International Security is among the leading journals in the field of international relations. [2] [3] According to Journal Citation Reports , it has a 2017 impact factor of 4.135, ranking it 2nd out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations". [4] Along with Security Studies , it is among the most prominent journals dedicated to security studies. [5] [1] Articles in International Security tend to deploy qualitative methods, in particular qualitative historical analysis. [6] Articles are also more likely to include policy prescriptions than other leading IR journals. [3]
The first article in International Security was Hedley Bull's "Arms Control and World Order." [7]
