Introduction

JIRD is an independent and internationally peer-reviewed journal in international relations and international political economy. It publishes articles on contemporary world politics and the global political economy from a variety of methodologies and approaches.

The journal, whose history goes back to 1984, was originally established to encourage scholarly publications by authors coming from Central/Eastern Europe. In the late 1990s the journal was refounded as the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), implementing a rigorous peer-review system and opening its pages to submissions from all scholars, regardless of regional affiliation. JIRD is a global journal with regional roots.

JIRD seeks original manuscripts that provide theoretically informed empirical analyses of issues in international relations and international political economy, as well as original theoretical or conceptual analyses.

Call for Papers

Forum on the State of the IR Discipline in Central and Eastern Europe
Deadline for abstracts (200 words): 30 April 2008

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News

Now out: special section on Russia: Identity and Policy

How does the Russian government conceive of its strategy for recognition in international society and see itself represented in the West, more particularly Europe? In a special section, introduced by Pertti Joenniemi, on 'Russia: Identity and foreign policy', Viatcheslav Morozov, Iver Neumann and Sergei Prozorov shed light on this question from three different discourse-analytical angles. For a limited period you can read the article by Iver Neumann FREE, click here.

Social Science Citation Index

We are delighted to announce that JIRD has been accepted by Thomson Scientific for indexing and inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index. We would like to thank the entire editorial team for all of the hard work that made this possible, as well as our reviewers and authors.

New JIRD Editorial Team

We are very pleased to welcome a new editorial team for JIRD, headed by Dr. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Editor-in-Chief (American University), supported by a team of Associate Editors: Dr. Petr Drulák (Institute of International Relations, Prague), Dr. George Lawson (London School of Economics), Dr. Sherrill Stroschein (University College London) and Dr. Antje Vetterlein (University of Essex / Copenhagen Business School).

The team represents a combination of engagement with general IR debates and an emphasis on the interactive and sociological aspects of international relations and development.

The editorial team will strive to keep and enhance JIRD as a standard bearer for research on international relations in general, including certain specific fields such as relations between social networks, states, international institutions and other significant actors in processes of development, broadly conceived. While the editorial team will encourage submissions worldwide, it intends to continue the editorial policy of encouraging submissions from the region. The focus on Central and Eastern Europe will therefore be kept, without restricting the fields of those who both write for it and read it. The team will encourage the submission of review essays by scholars from Central and Eastern Europe on IR books published in local languages. This will address the lack of knowledge of literature published in these countries by authors writing in their native language. In this way, the journal will serve as a conduit for some of the stellar scholarship that is currently being published in local languages, informing an international audience of these local debates.

There will be a gradual handover of editorial responsibilities during the first 6 months of 2008. Arrangements for the submission of manuscripts remain unchanged.

We would like to extend our thanks to Stefano Guzzini and Milan Brglez for all of their hard work over their term as Editors, and also to the team at the University of Ljubljana.