''International Security'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

in the field of international and

national security National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military att ...

. It was founded in 1976 and is edited by the

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and published four times a year by

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, both of

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, Massachusetts. The current editor-in-chief is Steven E. Miller (

). ''International Security'' is considered among the leading journals in the field of ''International Relations''. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 4.135, ranking it 2nd out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations". Along with the journal ''

Security Studies __NOTOC__ Security studies, also known as international security studies, is an academic sub-field within the wider discipline of international relations that studies organized violence, military conflict, national security, and internationa ...

'', it is the most prominent journal dedicated to security studies. Articles in ''International Security'' tend to deploy qualitative methods, in particular qualitative historical analysis. Articles are also more likely to include policy prescriptions than other leading IR journals. The first article in ''International Security'' was

Hedley Bull Hedley Norman Bull (10 June 1932 – 18 May 1985) was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985. He was Montague ...

's "Arms Control and World Order." Each issue has an average length of 208 pages.

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