Millennium is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 of international relations

International relations

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. It is based at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 (LSE) and is currently published by Sage Publications

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 three times a year, in May, August and December.

History

Millennium was established by F. S. Northedge

F. S. Northedge

Frederick Samuel Northedge was a British Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics.The Northedge Essay Competition was established in 1986 to recognize Professor Northedge's contribution to the creation of the journal Millennium.- Selected books :* Foreign Policies of...

 and a group of students from the LSE Department of International Relations in 1971.

Editorship

Millennium has been a student run journal since its foundation. Postgraduate students at the LSE continue to edit and manage the journal, with a new team editing each volume. The current editors are Edmund Arghand, Maria Fotou, and Nick Srnicek.

Abstracting and indexing

Millennium is abstracted and indexed in Current Abstracts

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, Current Contents

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/Arts & Humanities, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2010 impact factor

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is 0.727, ranking it 32nd out of 73 journals in the category "International Relations".

The Northedge Essay Competition

The Northedge Essay Competition was established in 1986 to commemorate the contribution of the late F. S. Northedge to the creation of Millennium. The winning essay is published in the first issue of each volume. The competition is open to any student who is currently pursuing or has recently completed a degree in International Relations or a related field. The essay may be part of a doctoral research project, an essay or dissertation submitted as part of an undergraduate or Masters’ degree course, a seminar paper or similar work.