Types of submissions
We share the following list to indicate, not restrict, the span of publishable work. In all cases, both English and non-English language works are considered.
- “Full length” articles that address a subject in depth and may appeal to general or specific audiences. They might:
- Present new thinking, whether theoretical, creative, critical, practical, etc.
- Be a traditional research report
- Review the literature with an integral analysis of it, on focused subjects of relevance to an IR audience
- Report on an informal experiment or case study, or ideas for one
- Compare patterns across case studies, events, etc.
- Offer a prototype approach to foster change, analysis, etc.
- Describe an innovative project proposal to disseminate the idea
- Offer an in-depth reflection on experience and learning
- Inquire into a particular phenomenon or across phenomena
- Present a new hypothesis
- Shorter articles that might:
- Introduce a new idea or experiment and describe anticipated potentials associated with it, and how it will be pursued further
- Share reflections on and explore meaningful experience(s)
- Respond to an article or other work previously published in IR or elsewhere, to initiate or extend a critical discourse
- Report in summary form on a relevant project or experiment of some kind
- Analyze and/or reflect on current events from an integral perspective
- Interviews
- Short stories
- Metaphors
- Dramatic scripts
- Book reviews
- Film reviews
- Poetry
- Animations, diagrams or other illustrations that portray dynamics, relationships, interactions, development, etc., accompanied by sufficient text to provide meaningful context
- Art with, or perhaps without, some sort of context provided for it