About this journal

The field of strategic studies has never been more significant than it is today. Since the appearance of the first issue in 1978, The Journal of Strategic Studies has taken a lead in promoting fresh thinking in the field among scholars and practitioners alike.

The defining feature of The Journal of Strategic Studies is its commitment to multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of war. The editors welcome articles that challenge our historical understanding of humanity’s efforts to achieve political ends through the application of military and diplomatic means; articles on contemporary security and theoretical controversies of enduring value; and of course articles that explicitly combine the historical and theoretical approaches to the study of modern warfare, defence policy and modern strategy.

In addition to individual articles and a well-established review section, The Journal of Strategic Studies offers its diverse readership a wide range of review essays, special issues and special sections. Recent editions have focused on Chinese defense innovation, sea power in the Asia-Pacific region, and peacekeeping in Africa.

Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, research articles are then subject to peer review by two or more independent, anonymous expert referees. For special issues, articles will be reviewed by the journal editors and a single expert referee for all items in the special issue. Review or historiographical essays, as well as state-of-the field papers, are generally reviewed by the journal editors only. All peer review is double-anonymous and submission is online via the Taylor & Francis Submission Portal. The journal publishes a list of its referees in the last issue of each volume.

Editors:
Joseph A. Maiolo - Biography - King’s College London, UK
Thomas G. Mahnken - Biography - The Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington D.C., USA

Deputy Editors:
Timothy D. Hoyt - United States Naval War College, USA
Chiara Libiseller, Leiden University, Netherlands

Founding Editor:
John Gooch, University of Leeds, UK

In Memoriam:
Colin S. Gray, University of Reading, UK
Robert Jervis, Columbia University, USA
Amos Perlmutter, The American University, USA
Thomas C. Schelling, University of Maryland, USA

Editorial Board:
Uri Bar-Joseph, University of Haifa, Israel
Richard K. Betts, Columbia University, USA
John Bew, King’s College London, UK
Stephen D. Biddle, Columbia University, USA
Hal Brands, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Risa Brooks, Marquette University, USA
Daniel L. Byman, Georgetown University, USA
Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, Washington DC, USA
Tai Ming Cheung, University of California, USA
Thomas Christensen, Columbia University, USA
Eliot A. Cohen, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Audrey Kurth Cronin, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Barry Desker, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Leiden University, Netherlands
Antulio J. Echevarria, II – US Army War College, USA
Eric S. Edelman, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Michael Evans, Australian Defence College, Canberra, Australia
M. Taylor Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Peter D. Feaver, Duke University, USA
John R. Ferris, University of Calgary, Canada
Aaron L. Friedberg, Princeton University, USA
Sir Lawrence Freedman, King’s College London, UK
Azar Gat, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Francis J. Gavin, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow, UK
Michael C. Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Jackson, Glasgow University, UK
Sarah Kreps, Cornell University, USA
Brian M. Linn, Texas A&M University, USA
Steven Lobell, University of Utah, USA
Susan B. Martin, King’s College London, UK
Jeffrey Michaels, Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals, Spain
Anit Mukherjee, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore
Peter Neumann, King’s College London, UK
Leopoldo Nuti, University of Roma Tre, Italy
Sergey Radchenko, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Srinath Raghavan, Ashoka University
Thomas Rid, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Stephen P. Rosen, Harvard University, USA
Sten Rynning, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Joshua Rovner, American University, USA
Mary Sarotte, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Olivier Schmitt, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Jacquelyn Schneider, Hoover Institute, USA
David Stevenson, The London School of Economics, UK
Hew Strachan, University of St. Andrews, UK
Caitlin Talmadge, George Washington University, USA
Nina Tannenwald, Brown University, USA
Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles,
David Ucko, National Defense University, USA
William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth University, USA
Katarzyna Zysk, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norway

Updated 02-06-2023 

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