Oula Kadhum, Louise Fawcett, Richard Toye, Aysegül Kibaroglu and Ramazan Caner Sayan discuss the 2003 Iraq war’s lasting impacts — 20 years on from the start of the Iraq war, the conflict continues to cast a long shadow. In this blogpost we bring together contributors to International Affairs to discuss the war’s impact on contemporary international relations. From its lasting effects on the Iraqi diaspora and Iraq’s water system to…

Mariana Vieira — This year marks the fifth instalment of our International Women’s Day reading list. Books written by women should be celebrated all year-round for their outstanding contributions to the field of International Relations and you can find more excellent work by women authors in our IA Bookshelf series. On this occasion…

Catherine Lu, Terry MacDonald, Arnulf Becker Lorca and Robyn Eckersley discuss challenging injustice in international order — Drawing on their contributions to an International Affairs special section on injustice and international order, the authors of this symposium set out to answer what a more just world might look like and how it might be achieved. In an international system permeated by a range of historic and contemporary…

Explore the shortlist for a one-off prize celebrating International Affairs’s centenary and our second century goals — In 2022, International Affairs celebrated 100 years of publishing academically rigorous and policy relevant research on International Relations. As the journal moves into its second century, the International Affairs team wants to highlight those articles published in its 100th year that best embody the journal’s second century goals:

The International Affairs team announces the four articles shortlisted for our annual prize — In 2017, the editorial team at International Affairs launched the Early Career Prize, designed to celebrate the research published in the journal by authors with less than seven years of experience in the field of International Relations post-PhD. After a rigorous selection process, we can now reveal the four articles…

International Affairs’s current editor, Andrew Dorman, reflects on his tenure and the journal’s future. This blogpost is part of a series of editorial retrospectives that discuss the impact of International Affairs’s (IA’s) editors in the context of the journal’s centenary. Andrew Dorman explores the changes he’s seen during his eight…

15 articles, book reviews and blogposts on the Russia–Ukraine war and Russian strategy from International Affairs — As we approach the one year mark since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the ultimate cost and long-term implications of the conflict remain uncertain. In this reading list, we bring together a collection of articles, book reviews and blogposts published since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Focused…

Katharina Rietzler — This blogpost is part of a series of editorial retrospectives that discuss the impact of International Affairs’ (IA’s) former editors in the context of the journal’s centenary. Katharina Rietzler reflects on the impact of Margaret Cleeve as IA’s longest serving editor from 1932 to 1957. The text is a modified…

Mariana Vieira — On the first issue of its 100th year, International Affairs published a special edition entitled ‘Race and imperialism in International Relations: theory and practice’, guest-edited by Jasmine K. Gani and Jenna Marshall. Alongside our editorial, 100 years of International Affairs, this January 2022 issue signalled the journal’s commitment to ‘ensure…