| International Security | |
| Cover: | internationalsecuritylowres.jpg |
| Editor: | Steven E. Miller |
| Discipline: | International and national security, International relations |
| Language: | English |
| Abbreviation: | Int. Secur. |
| Publisher: | MIT Press for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs |
| Country: | United States |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| History: | 1976–present |
| Impact: | 4.135 |
| Impact-Year: | 2017 |
| Website: | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/isec |
| Link1: | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/isec/current |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/isec |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
| Jstor: | 01622889 |
| Oclc: | 44911437 |
| Issn: | 0162-2889 |
| Eissn: | 1531-4804 |
International Security is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of international and national security. It was founded in 1976[1] and is edited by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and published four times a year by MIT Press, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The current editor-in-chief is Steven E. Miller of Harvard University.
International Security is considered among the leading journals in the field of international relations.[2] [3] According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 4.135, ranking it 2nd out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations".[4] Along with the journal Security Studies, it is the most prominent journal dedicated to security studies.[5] [1] Articles in International Security tend to deploy qualitative methods, in particular qualitative historical analysis.[6] Articles are also more likely to include policy prescriptions than other leading IR journals.
The first article in International Security was Hedley Bull's "Arms Control and World Order."[7] Each issue has an average length of 208 pages.