Steven E. Miller, Editor-in-Chief

Morgan L. Kaplan, Executive Editor

Owen R. Coté Jr., Editor

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 of war and peace, as well as more recent dimensions of security, including environmental, demographic, and humanitarian issues, transnational networks, and emerging technologies.

International Security has defined the debate on US national security policy and set the agenda for scholarship on international security affairs for more than forty years. The journal values scholarship that challenges the conventional wisdom, examines policy, engages theory, illuminates history, and discovers new trends.

Readers of IS discover new developments in:

The causes and prevention of war

U.S.-China relations

Great power politics

Ethnic conflict and intra-state war

Terrorism and insurgency

Regional security in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America

U.S. foreign and defense policy

International relations theory

Diplomatic and military history

Cybersecurity and defense technology

Political economy, business, and security

Nuclear proliferation

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

Impact Measures:

#2 in International Relations (Impact Factor: 5.432, 2019 Journal Citation Reports)

#1 in Military Studies (2019 Google Scholar Metrics)

#4 in Law (2019 SCImago Journal & Country Rank)



