The International Spectator aims to provide academics, practitioners, opinion- and decision-makers, as well as interested laymen, with thought-provoking, analytically sound, theoretically informed and policy-oriented research articles, essays and book reviews on foreign policy issues. Topics cover the entire spectrum of international affairs from ongoing international politics, economics and security affairs to pressing questions on the international agenda such as climate and energy, global migration and development.
The International Spectator recognizes the scholarly value of diverse perspectives and approaches, and welcomes a variety of methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative.
Our journal is strongly committed to gender balance and diversity, as reflected in its editorial and international advisory boards, and encourages submissions from scholars at all career stages and from all world regions.
In order to increase dissemination of published research, The International Spectator also has its own blog, where shorter posts based on selected scholarly articles are published on a regular basis, as well as a podcast channel.
Since 2021, the journal has been included in Q1 in both the SCImago and Scopus CiteScore rankings in the subject category Political Science and International Relations; it is also part of Clarivate’s Emerging Sources Citation Index, International Relations.
Peer Review and Publication Process
The two kinds of articles published – essays and research articles – undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial in-house screening by the journal's editors (usually within two weeks of submission) and double anonymized anonymous refereeing by at least two independent, expert reviewers (usually within 8-10 weeks of the initial screening).
All accepted articles go through internal editing, including language editing, and this support is provided free of charge to authors. Each article is then published online as soon as it is ready, normally within two months of acceptance.
Editors:
Leo Goretti
Daniela Huber
Book Review Editors:
Alessandra Bertino
Benedetta Voltolini
Social Media Manager and Blog Administrator:
Irene D'Antimo
Editorial Office:
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Via dei Montecatini 17
00186 Rome
Italy
E-Mail: [email protected]
Editorial Board:
Riccardo Alcaro – IAI, Rome
Federica Bicchi – London School of Economics
Anna Caffarena – University of Turin
Emidio Diodato – University for Foreigners of Perugia
Micaela Frulli – University of Florence
Sonia Lucarelli – University of Bologna
Stefania Panebianco – University of Catania
Giulio Pugliese – University of Oxford; European University Institute, Florence
Chiara Ruffa – Sciences Po, Paris
Benedetta Voltolini – King's College, London
International Advisory Board:
Kwesi Aning
– Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra David Cadier – University of Groningen
Xuechen Chen – Northeastern University, London
Agnieszka K. Cianciara – Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Nana de Graaff – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Raffaella Del Sarto – Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna
Nora Fisher-Onar – University of San Francisco
Asiimwe B. Godfrey – University of Makerere, Kampala
Anna Herranz-Surrallés – University of Maastricht
Sophia Kalantzakos – New York University/NYU Abu Dhabi
Anna Khakee – University of Malta
Moch Faisal Karim – Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia, Depok
Simon Mabon – Leicester University
Kalypso Nicolaïdis – European University Institute, Florence, and University of Oxford
Sebastian Oberthür – Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and University of Eastern Finland
Sukanya Podder – King's College, London
Lorena Ruano – Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
Larbi Sadiki – Chiba University, Tokyo
Karen E. Smith – London School of Economics (LSE)
Francesco Strazzari – Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Eleni Tsingou – Copenhagen Business School
Michito Tsuruoka – Keio University, Tokyo
Federica Zardo – University for Continuing Education Krems
Jan Zielonka – Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Zhao Minghao – Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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