International Political Sociology

Published on behalf of the International Studies Association

Edited by:
Didier Bigo, R.B.J. Walker

Print ISSN: 1749-5679
Online ISSN: 1749-5687
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 3 / 2009

TopAuthor Guidelines

Instructions for Authors

Aims and Scope
IPS: International Political Sociology responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists, and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research, and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North American scholarship. In order to help broaden the community engaging in international studies, the journal will facilitate the submission of articles in languages other than English.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines and Review Process Information
Papers dealing with the issues detailed in the Call for Papers or clearly related to international political sociology must be sent to BOTH didier.bigo.conflits@gmail.com and ips@ceri-sciences-po.org. An acknowledgment of receipt will be sent to author. Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words and should be sent in two versions, one of which should have all self-references deleted. Preferred file format is Word. PDF is also accepted at this initial stage only. Authors should include a biographical note, full contact details, article abstract, and five keywords.
All submissions to IPS that comply with these requirements will be sent to relevant outside experts and scholars for a double blind peer review. Authors will then receive a synthesis of these reviews.
Any of the various standard formats for bibliographic references may be used in preliminary submission to IPS, but strict adherence to the formatting guidelines for International Studies Association journals is required prior to final acceptance. These guidelines can be found on the Internet and can be sent upon request by the IPS editorial office.

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Copyright
Authors whose articles are selected for publication will receive both the final acceptance letter by the Editors in Chief and a Copyright form. This copyright form must be completed, signed, and returned to the assistant editor at the following address before final manuscripts are sent to the publisher:

Colombe Camus
International Political Sociology
Centre for International Studies and Research
56 rue Jacob
75006 Paris - FRANCE
ips@ceri-sciences-po.org
tel: +33 1 58 71 70 73
fax: +33 1 58 71 70 90

Books and Journals Review Submission Guidelines

Aims and Scope of Review Essays
International Political Sociology now seeks to publish a review essay section to enable focused discussion of important literature in the field. It especially seeks to offer a guide to work that is relatively unfamiliar to international relations scholars. Consequently, we seek essays that highlight the innovative aspects of the literatures examined, evaluate it in some detail, contextualize its relation to other literatures and consider its implications for international relations ⁄ international political sociology. Three kinds of review essays are of particular interest to the journal: 1) essays discussing a specific author and particularly authors situated outside the better known approaches to international relations; 2) essays covering specific approaches and ⁄ or concepts of direct relevance to themes being explored in IPS; 3) essays focusing on recently published work of interest to an IPS audience. The IPS call for papers (available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1749-5679&site=1) and the articles already published in the journal may serve as an indication of areas of specific interest, but submissions are strongly encouraged on any author, topic and publication likely to be of broad interest to the IPS readership.

Formal Requirements
Review essays should cover at least three books or relevant articles. They should relate these explicitly to the field of international political sociology. Review essays should be substantial pieces of work ranging between 6,000 and 8,000 words. They should be formatted according to the overall IPS guidelines regarding referencing and style. These are available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=1749-5679&site=1. Proposals that would not meet the requirements would not be taken into consideration.

Publication Procedure
Review essays should be submitted both to ips_review_l@libertysecurity.org and to ips@ceri-sciences-po.org. The essays will be subjected to a double-blind peer review before publication.

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