Security Studies

01/05/2023

Security Studies is thrilled to announce that Prof. Ron Hassner, of UC Berkeley, will be the journal's next editor-in-chief, as of July 1, 2023. Congratulations--and thank you, Ron!

05/01/2023

Associate Editor Mark Haas is stepping down after over four years of distinguished service to the journal. We are immensely grateful to Mark for his deep commitment to Security Studies and for his thoughtfulness and diligence as an Associate Editor. Thank you, Mark!

Security Studies is thrilled to announce that Seva Gunitsky of the University of Toronto has joined the editorial team. Welcome, Seva!

04/08/2022

Ron Krebs' term as Editor-in-Chief is coming to an end in June 2023. Want to take up the reins?

Security Studies is looking for a new editor-in-chief. EIC Ron Krebs’ term comes to an end on June 30, 2023. We hope you will consider applying!Call for Applications Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Security StudiesThe Co-chairs of the Editorial Board, on behalf of the Board, and the current Editor-in-Chi...

01/08/2022

Security Studies has issued a new special call for papers and special issue proposals on the topic of "Legacies of Violence and War." Spread the word -- and send us your work!

Legacies of Violence and War A Security Studies Call for Papers and Special Issue ProposalsSubmission deadline for special issue proposals: December 15, 2022Submission deadline for full individual papers:February 15, 2023 The field of international relations, reflecting its origins and its central p...

30/05/2022

Associate Editor Sheena Chestnut Greitens is stepping down after nearly two years of distinguished service to the journal. We are immensely grateful to Sheena for her deep commitment to Security Studies and for her thoughtfulness and diligence as an Associate Editor. Thank you, Sheena!

Security Studies is thrilled to announce that Roseanne McManus of Penn State has joined the editorial team. Welcome, Roseanne!

30/05/2022

Security Studies is committed to transparency. We just posted the 2022 Editor's Report, presented to the journal's Editorial Board at ISA. Happy reading! Please direct any questions to Editor-in-Chief Ron Krebs at [email protected].

Security Studies is committed to transparency. The editor-in-chief prepares annual reports, which are first presented to the editorial board and will then be posted here.Editor’s Report 2022

01/03/2022

Associate Editor Jonathan Caverley is stepping down after over three years of distinguished service to the journal. We are immensely grateful to Jon for his deep commitment to Security Studies and his thoughtfulness and diligence as an Associate Editor. Thank you, Jon!

Security Studies is thrilled to announce that Fiona Adamson of SOAS University of London has joined the editorial team. Welcome, Fiona!

16/02/2022

Great new piece just out, by Ariel Zellman and Davis Brown

"religion is an important intervening factor in interstate dispute militarization, especially between internally threatened rivals... Dispute militarization is primarily an effort to undercut domestic competitors, whose challenge is augmented by external threats to leaders’ religious legitimacy."

(2022). Uneasy Lies the Crown: External Threats to Religious Legitimacy and Interstate Dispute Militarization. Security Studies. Ahead of Print.

04/01/2022

Associate Editor Jennifer Erickson is stepping down after four years of distinguished service to the journal. We are immensely grateful to Jennifer for her deep commitment to Security Studies and her thoughtfulness and diligence as an Associate Editor. Thank you, Jennifer!

Security Studies is thrilled to announce that Nick Miller of Dartmouth College has joined the editorial team. Welcome, Nick!

14/09/2021

Apologies! We have to postpone our AMA originally scheduled for this coming Friday. We'll let everyone know when it's been rescheduled.

13/09/2021

This Friday, Sept. 17, 1:30 pm EDT, on Twitter, -- Ask Us Anything!

Curious how publishing works? How R&R or desk reject decisions get made? How reviewers are chosen? Here's your chance to ask!

Reply here with ?s (or via PM/email, to [email protected], if you want to ask anonymously).

02/09/2021

Curious how publishing works? How R&R or desk reject decisions get made? How reviewers are chosen? Here's your chance to ask!

editors will host an AMA on 9/17 at 1:30pm EDT. Reply here with ?s (or via PM/email, to [email protected], if you want to ask anonymously).

20/08/2021

Security Studies is pleased to announce a call for both special issue proposals and full individual papers on Climate Change and Security. Deadline: March 1, 2022.

Please spread this announcement widely.

https://securitystudiesjournal.org/climate-change-and-security

Climate Change and Security A Security Studies Call for Papers and Special Issue Proposalssubmission deadline: March 1, 2022Human-induced climate change is one of the central challenges of our time. A generation ago, scholars actively debated whether “the environment” should be treated as a secu...

02/08/2021

On a more somber note... The latest issue of Security Studies is dedicated to the memory of our Board member, Nuno Monteiro, whose untimely passing we mourn. Nuno was a brilliant scholar, a generous soul, and a devoted and dedicated member of our Security Studies community. He is greatly missed.

02/08/2021

The latest issue concludes with an exciting new "exchange" forum! Wendy Pearlman and Janice Gross-Stein offer their critical takes on Bowen, Knopf, and Moran's article from a couple of issues back.

We are eager to hear from you about our articles. If you'd like to write a response, check out our guidance to prospective authors (https://securitystudiesjournal.org/guidance-for-authors ) and then get in touch!

(2021). The Obama Administration’s Response to the Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria: An Exchange. Security Studies: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 302-324.

02/08/2021

The latest issue of Security Studies is out, with provocative articles questioning the conventional wisdom on oil and war, offering new perspectives on what makes an asset "strategic," revisiting the origins of WW I and signaling in Vietnam, and making sense of North Korea's foreign policy through the lens of ontological security. Read it!

Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 0963-6412 eISSN: 1556-1852 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09636412.2021.1882128

07/06/2021

The Security Studies editorial team is pleased to announce that two distinguished colleagues have newly joined the Editorial Board:

Dr. Aisha Ahmad, University of Toronto

&

Dr. Jakana Thomas, Michigan State University (soon the University of California, San Diego)

The editorial team also wishes to inform the Security Studies community that Dr. Mia Bloom has resigned from the journal's Editorial Board.

06/05/2021

JoGSS and Security Studies are pleased to announce a collaborative effort to organize and sponsor one or more panels at ISA 2022 featuring scholars hailing from and/or currently located in the Global South. Papers on all themes related to security, broadly construed, are welcome. Members of both journals' editorial teams will serve as discussants and provide feedback. Please submit proposals no later than May 23 to [email protected]. Please include your name, affiliation, email address, paper title, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Please direct questions to the journals' editors-in-chief: Ron Krebs ([email protected]) and Asaf Siniver ([email protected]).

Please share this message widely!!!