International Security
Last updated ISSN 0162-2889
International Security is published by The MIT Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in International Security concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Political Conflict and Governance
- European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
- Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Military and Defense Studies
- International Development and Aid
- Military History and Strategy
Key facts
| Publisher | The MIT Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0162-2889, 1531-4804 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,837 |
| Publishing since | 1976 |
| Journal website | www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/isec |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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