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 of Harvard University.
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| Discipline | International and national security, International relations |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Steven E. Miller |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1976–present |
| Publisher | MIT Press for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 4.135 (2017) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Int. Secur. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0162-2889 (print) 1531-4804 (web) |
| JSTOR | 01622889 |
| OCLC no. | 44911437 |
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International Security is considered among the leading journals in the field of international relations.[2][3] According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 4.135, ranking it 2nd out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations".[4] Along with the journal Security Studies, it is the most prominent journal 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] Each issue has an average length of 208 pages.[citation needed]