International Organization
Encyclopedia
International Organization is a peer-reviewed
academic journal
that covers the entire field of international affairs
. Subject areas include: foreign policies
, international relations
, international and comparative political economy
, security policies, environmental disputes and resolutions, Europe
an integration
, alliance patterns and war
, bargaining and conflict resolution
, economic development
and adjustment, and international capital movements.
It is published by the Cambridge University
Press
on behalf of the International Organization Foundation.
Its current editors are Louis Pauly and Emanuel Adler, both international relations scholars at the University of Toronto.
In a 2005 survey, 1,084 international relations scholars were asked "which journals publish articles that have the greatest impact on the way international relations scholars think about their subject and their work" and to make a nominal
list of their top four. Of the 749 scholars who replied, 521 (≈70%) listed IO with International Studies Quarterly coming in second with 371 (≈50%) responses.
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
that covers the entire field of international affairs
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
. Subject areas include: foreign policies
Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...
, international relations
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
, international and comparative political economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
, security policies, environmental disputes and resolutions, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an integration
European integration
European integration is the process of industrial, political, legal, economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe...
, alliance patterns and war
War
War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...
, bargaining and conflict resolution
Conflict resolution
Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of some social conflict. Often, committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest...
, economic development
Economic development
Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area...
and adjustment, and international capital movements.
It is published by the Cambridge University
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
Press
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
on behalf of the International Organization Foundation.
Its current editors are Louis Pauly and Emanuel Adler, both international relations scholars at the University of Toronto.
In a 2005 survey, 1,084 international relations scholars were asked "which journals publish articles that have the greatest impact on the way international relations scholars think about their subject and their work" and to make a nominal
Level of measurement
The "levels of measurement", or scales of measure are expressions that typically refer to the theory of scale types developed by the psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens. Stevens proposed his theory in a 1946 Science article titled "On the theory of scales of measurement"...
list of their top four. Of the 749 scholars who replied, 521 (≈70%) listed IO with International Studies Quarterly coming in second with 371 (≈50%) responses.
External links
- International Organization's website
- International Organization at Journal StorageJSTORJSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...