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International Affairs was founded in 1922, two years after the British Institute of International Affairs was established at Chatham House in London. The founding editor was Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy, who led the journal until 1931.
Contributors to International Affairs have included Mahatma Gandhi, Ernesto Che Guevara, Joseph S. Nye, Susan Strange, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Paul Krugman, and Lennart Meri. Susan Strange was among the most prolific contributors, with 81 articles and book reviews published between 1950 and 1996.
International Affairs has an impact factor of 3.9 according to the 2024 ISI Journal Citation Reports. It ranked eighth out of 165 international relations journals.
Oxford University Press publishes International Affairs six times per year in print and online on behalf of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Publication of International Affairs was suspended in 1939 at the onset of the Second World War until further notice. A book review supplement of 60 or more reviews was published three times per year for four years during the war, and these supplements collectively became the 19th volume of the journal when publication resumed in 1944.
The Early Career Prize was launched by International Affairs in 2017 to recognize contributors with fewer than seven years of academic experience. It is awarded annually at the International Studies Association Convention to the best article by an early-career author in a given calendar year.