The International Spectator - About
Italy's oldest English-language journal of international affairs
published by Routledge [2]
Aims and Scope
The International Spectator, established in 1966, is a peer-reviewed international affairs journal.
The journal 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, opinion 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 rising questions on the international agenda such as climate and energy, global migration and development.
Peer Review
The two kinds of articles published – opinion essays and research articles – undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial in-house screening and double-blind anonymous refereeing by at least two independent, expert reviewers. The journal welcomes submissions on all aspects of international politics, economics and security affairs in – and from – all the world’s regions.
Abstracting and Indexing
This journal is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: ArticleFirst, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Current Abstracts, EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, EDN EINIRAS Database Network, EI (Online), Electronic Collections Online, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), PAIS International, Peace Research Abstracts, PIO - Periodicals Index Online, Political Science Complete, PubMed, Public Affairs Index, Scopus, TOC Premier, Thomson Reuters' Emerging Sources Citation Index, International Relations.
Special "core" sections and special issues that have recently appeared in the journal include:
- Special Issue: Governing Differentiation and Integration in the European Union: Patterns, Effectiveness and Legitimacy [3] 57:1 (2022)
- Special Issue: Between the Domestic and the International: Ideational Factors, Peacebuilding and Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf [4] 56:4 (2021)
- Special Issue: Europe’s Transition to Sustainability: Actors, Approaches and Policies [5] 56:3 (2021)
- Regionalism at the Time of Covid-19: Impact and Implications [6] 56:2 (2021)
- Rethinking Arms Control [7] 56:1 (2021)
- Special Issue: Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel [8] 55:4 (2020)
- Special Issue: The GCC in Crisis: Explorations of ‘Normlessness’ in Gulf Regionalism [9] 55:2 (2020)
- Asia’s Evolving Security Dynamics and Implications for Europe [10] 55:1 (2020)
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