Submission Guidelines

Scope

Global Politics was established with one clear goal: providing a genera venue to showcase the important contributions and ideas of young professionals and scholars. To facilitate this mission, Global Politics is intentionally wide with various articles types.

Thematically, Global Politics is interested in all topics that fall under international relations broadly defined. While many define this as the interaction between states, Global Politics intentionally widens this definition. We are interested in publishing articles and reviews on the interactions between sovereign states and the political events that influences these interactions. Therefore, Global Politics is interested in manuscripts that examine everything from domestic political shifts and ideas, foreign policy actions by states, the influence of non-state actors and international organizations, among other topics. If you’re interested in publishing on our site but are unsure if your manuscript falls within our scope, please contact the office with a brief pitch.

Global Politics is interested in a wide variety of manuscript types, from opinion to scholarly essays, as well as a variety of review articles. Submissions from all authors will be accepted, but promotional material and publication timeline will favor young scholars and professionals. Independent authors are also welcome to submit their manuscripts. Despite focusing on young authors, Global Politics seeks to maintain a high quality of publication, meaning authors must demonstrate expertise in their writing. The editorial office will work with authors to provide a thorough review of each manuscript and work with all authors to provide feedback.

If your looking to submit your manuscript, please read through our submission guidelines to ensure your manuscript is formatted and meets our requirements.

Article Types

Analytical Essays

Analytical essays seek to provide an opinion on current events, policy debates, or international stories. Due to their short length, analytical essays need to be focused and tightly argued. However, Global Politics seeks essays that are well written and engaging, make bold points, and seek to challenge the reader to dive deeper in understanding the events. Writers should prepare manuscripts that are keenly aware of their goal, state their argument up front, and keep the reader engaged.

These essays should range between 750-1500 words, not including citations. Please use Chicago style footnotes throughout the manuscript. Global Politics may embed links to references when possible in the body of the article for publication.

Book Reviews

A good book review is more than a simple retelling of the argument. The best reviews are critical examinations of the argument, often making contributions to the literature themselves. Global Politics is interested in reviews that are critical of the authors main argument by highlighting the book’s strengths and weaknesses. Global Politics is also interested in publishing reviews of the “classics” in every literature within our scope and applying those arguments to the modern world. For a list of books that Global Politics is interested in, please see our “Books for Review” page. This list is not exhaustive and if you would like to review a book that is not on this list, please contact us so we can work with you on your review.

Reviews should be between 750-1000 words not including references or original citation. Please include a full Chicago style citation at the top of the first page. Citations should be in text page numbers. Outside sources, if included, should be used sparingly as the main focus should remain on the main argument of the book being reviewed.

Strategic Essays

Strategic essays force the reader to think deeply about a topic, start connecting theory with current events, and/or present a through analysis of current trends around current events. Global Politics is interested in essays that offer new strategic thinking and applications of theoretical concepts to modern politics. Manuscripts should connect dots and present wider arguments to offer key strategic insights about addressing threats and opportunities in today’s world. A central aspect of these essays is providing a policy recommendation based on the analytical stance and evidence within the manuscript.

Strategic essays should be around 1750-3000 words not including references. Citations should be in Chicago style. Global Politics may embed citation links into the article for online publication.

Précis

Academic reviews play a key part in understanding, evaluating, and advancing our understanding of politics and international affairs. The précis works as a tool to analyze the core arguments of a collection of academic works, highlighting their areas of contest and agreement. Global Politics is highly interested in précis that illuminate theoretical arguments, critique policy options, and/or challenge our understanding of events through critical analysis of scholarly work. Authors should not simply review or summarize each piece. Rather, an adept eye at connecting the sinews that tie the pieces together or analytical assessments of key theoretical and policy pieces is of interest.

For each précis, authors should select 3-5 academic works to review in 1500-2500 words. Selected pieces can be scholarly articles, books, or think tank reports. Please include a complete, Chicago style citation for each piece reviewed underneath the title for your essay. Chicago style citations in footnotes should be used throughout the manuscript.

Scholarly Essays

Academic debate is the center of international political discussions. Scholarly articles make theoretical advancements, present new data, test key assumptions and theoretical models with case studies and evidence, and provide a medium to present new information and details about political events. Global Politics is interested in studies that seek to make a contribution to the field of international relations broadly defined. Scholarly essays should include a literature review, a very detailed analysis, and a deep understanding of the literatures used to answer the question they ask. Authors should be very comfortable within their topic, possessing a deep knowledge of how their research advances the field while presenting a robust analysis of the data presented.

Scholarly essays should range between 5000-10000 words not including references. Papers should include complete Chicago citations as exampled below. Essays should be formatted with clear bolded sections headings. If figures and tables are included, all information in the figures/tables must be easily legible and formatted as discussed below.

General Formatting

References

All references in submitted manuscripts must be formatted in Chicago Manual of Style as footnotes. When citing the same source multiple times, please use a shortened version of the note after the first complete citation. Do not use Ibid within your manuscript. Please see below for an example of footnotes. When citing articles, please only cite the pages you are referencing.

Academic Articles
  • Benjamin Zimmer and Kedar Pandya, “Logical Engagement: Using Positive Sanctions to Coerce North Korea,” Security Challenges vol. 16 no. 4 (December 2020), 99-116.
  • Zimmer and Pandya, “Logical Engagement,” 110.
Books
  • Patrick McEachern, Inside the Red Box: North Korea’s Post Totalitarian Politics, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 118.
  • McEachern, Inside the Red Box, 118.
Newspaper Articles

Figures

Figures should be included at the end of the manuscript. All figures should be able to be copied from the manuscript into the published version. All text within the figures must be clearly legible within the manuscript document without enlargement. Please ensure that all figures are clearly labeled with a caption below the figure. If there are any issues with figures, the editorial office may contact authors to ensure all figures can be reproduced at an appropriate size.

Tables

Tables should be included at the end of the manuscript following the figures. All text within the table must be editable; tables should not be included as images. All text within figures must be clearly legible. All shading, text, and other table elements must be grayscale. Please label tables alphanumerically and include a title at the top of each table. If there is a need for elaboration or citation for a data source within a table, please include that information in a notes section below the respective table. The editorial office may contact authors to verify or correct the formatting of tables to ensure publication quality.

Images

Global Politics requires images in all articles. Please include 2-3 images we can include with your published article. All images must not be copyrighted or have confirmation of ability for Global Politics to reproduce

Submission

Please submit all manuscripts as a Word Document to globalpoliticseditor@gmail.com. The subject line must include you name and manuscript title and the type of article. For example: “Strategic Essay: Ben Zimmer – North Korean Nuclear Test.” If you are resubmitting a revised version, please include “Revised” in front of the article type in the subject line. In the body of your email, please include a brief paragraph about your submission, including the main argument, methods and/or reviewed works (if applicable), and why your manuscript should be considered for publication.

Policies

Peer-Review

Global Politics reserves the right to have articles peer-reviewed to ensure accuracy and impact.

Publication Ethics

All work submitted to Global Politics should be original work not published elsewhere. Under certain circumstances, Global Politics will consider republishing work if author can secure approval for republication from the original publisher. Authors must also contact Global Politics to secure permissions for their work to be published elsewhere.

Plagiarism

It is assumed that all submissions to Global Politics are the author’s original work. If plagiarism is found or accused, Global Politics reserves the right to retract and/or publish erratum, notice of concern, or other addendums to articles without the author’s permission. Global Politics also reserves the right to ban any contributions from authors found guilty of plagiarizing work in previous posts.

Authors may be contacted to submit corrections after an article is published if there is incorrect information included in the article. Global Politics will work with authors to correct the article online but will clearly point out any corrections made to articles post publication with a notice of correction. Authors may also submit corrections to Global Politics if they feel corrections are needed. If corrections are minor—misspellings, incorrect dates, for example—Global Politics may correct the article without contacting the author, providing notice once the correction is published.