History
Founded in 1956 as an alumni letter for The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The SAIS Review of International Affairs became a full-fledged academic journal in 1981. Since then, The SAIS Review has consistently been recognized as one of the leading publications in foreign affairs.
As a program straddling the worlds of policy and academia, SAIS has specialized in developing knowledge and translating it into practical implementation. The SAIS Review has played an integral role in this process, publishing the works, thoughts, and recommendations of some of the world’s most influential academics and policymakers. Writings from policymakers including Madeleine Albright, George H.W. Bush, Al Gore Jr., Richard Holbrooke, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Richardson, Paul H. Nitze, and Joe Biden and scholars such as Hernando de Soto, Max Corden, Olivier Roy, Piero Gleijeses, Nassim Taleb, and Michael Mandelbaum have appeared in the journal.
Since 1981, diverse and talented SAIS graduate students have served as the journal’s editorial board. The SAIS Review is the premier publication of the Foreign Policy Institute, and several of the Institute’s senior fellows serve on the journal’s Advisory Board.
Print Journal
The SAIS Review of International Affairs is dedicated to advancing the debate on leading contemporary issues in world affairs. Seeking to bring a fresh and policy-relevant perspective to global political, economic, and security questions, The SAIS Review publishes essays that bridge the boundary between scholarly inquiry and practical experience.
Each issue of The SAIS Review examines contemporary issues in international affairs through the aperture of a particular issue theme. Past issues have included:
- The Revolution Will Be Televised: A Decade of Global Protest (Summer–Fall 2020)
- Ex Amicitia Pax: Diplomacy in Action (Winter–Spring 2020)
- Ethics and Foreign Policy (Winter–Spring 2019)
- “Here Be Dragons”: Ungoverned Spaces on Land and at Sea (Winter–Spring 2016)
- Policy by Numbers: How Big Data Is Transforming Security, Governance, and Development (Winter–Spring 2014)
We are currently not accepting submissions for our print journal. Please stay turned for further announcements. For more information, please see our Call for Submissions.
The SAIS Review print journal is published twice yearly by the Johns Hopkins University Press with the support of the Foreign Policy Institute, a research center of The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Digital Edition
The online edition of The SAIS Review publishes articles across a broad spectrum of issue areas, striving to balance broad accessibility with a nuanced exploration of policy issues. The SAIS Review website expands upon the decades of excellence established by our print journal, offering a complementary forum for the exploration of international relations and economics.
The website follows current events and changes across the globe, tracks developments in research and thought, and provides insight into the global policymaking community. Contributors to the website come from a wide array of backgrounds and include current SAIS students and professors, accomplished academics, veteran policymakers, and global leaders in the public and private sectors.
Articles are published on a rolling basis. Web article submissions are reviewed weekly, with decisions offered between one and two weeks following submission.
The website first launched in March 2012 and underwent two redesigns, in the summer of 2018 and in 2020. The website runs on the free and open source WordPress platform.
We also encourage web submissions that reflect our current print issue’s theme. For more information, see our Submissions page.
Copyright
The SAIS Review website and its content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which permits non-commercial re-use of SAIS Review blog content when proper attribution is provided. For more details read the page on the Creative Commons website. Some content on this site may be owned or co-owned by third parties and may have additional copyright restrictions, especially photos, so we will do our best to label such content. In addition, please note that this copyright information does not include content from The SAIS Review journal itself that is printed by The Johns Hopkins University Press.