Announcement: policy papers

The International Affairs team announce a new format for the journal

Throughout its history International Affairs has acted as a site for engagement between academics and policy-makers on the most pressing issues in international politics. With this in mind we are excited to announce a new format for the journal: policy papers!

The policy papers section of the journal will be designed to be a forum for bringing new insight to policy debates, for rapidly publishing new empirical results and for developing potential solutions to international problems. Contributions should be principally aimed at the policy community, but we expect them to maintain relevance to academic readers. They should be 4–5,000 words, be more focused and typically should not include a complete literature review but should still include references in International Affairs’s house style.

We welcome unsolicited submissions from authors with academic and/or practitioner experience. We particularly encourage those from areas and communities that are underrepresented within the journal and the wider discipline of International Relations. All submissions should be original, should not be under consideration elsewhere and will be subject to an adapted version of the journal’s peer review process designed to reflect the format’s empirical and policy focus.

We will follow up with more information soon on the series and the submission process and are aiming to publish the first papers in the series in our January 2024 issue, but if you have any questions you can contact the International Affairs team at adorman@chathamhouse.org