Articles

e-IR’s Articles are concise, targeted analyses of key issues, written by persons with expertise and/or unique insights into the topic at hand. We welcome contributions from Ph.D candidates, academics, policy-makers and practitioners.* e-IR is not an academic journal, but submissions should be academically spirited and analytical rather than descriptive.

All submissions are published under a creative commons license and copyright remains with the author.

Some notes on format:

- Our Articles section is wide and varied in subject matter and format. We welcome comment/op-ed pieces as well as  longer research based articles. Please do familiarise yourself with recent publications to get a gauge of what we typically publish.

- Articles should reference or link supporting material via hyperlinks or in-text references where appropriate.

- As you are writing to a global, non-specialist readership, please avoid overly complicated or region-specific points without providing a brief explanation.

- Articles should be a minimum of 800 words. Pieces longer than 1500 words should be broken up with sub-headings.

- Please include a short author bio at the footer of your Article, directly under your conclusion/final sentence.

- Submissions with structural grammar/language problems will be rejected before any review of the argument is made, so please check over your piece carefully before sending it to us.

If your piece passes the benchmark criteria noted above, we will have the content of your article assessed by two members of our editorial board. This process should take no longer than one or two weeks at most, at which point an editor will get back in touch. If the subject of your piece is time/context dependent, we will expedite the process. We expect that articles submitted to us are not under consideration elsewhere.

Email your Article as an MS Word compatible attachment with the email title ‘Article‘ to submissions@e-ir.info

*Note, we do not accept student submissions other than those of PhD students for our Articles section. If you are a student and wish to write for e-IR you are welcome to submit an essay, or write a review.