Journal of International Affairs

• 1. Introduction

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  The Journal of International Affairs was founded in 1947, and it was set up as a nonprofit organization. That detail frames everything about it. The journal was not built to turn a profit; it was built to carry ideas about the world beyond a country's borders. Its pages are devoted to foreign affairs. Two questions follow from that. Who actually runs a publication like this, and where does it live? The answers are a little unusual for a journal in this field.

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• 2. Run By Students

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  At Columbia University, the School of International and Public Affairs is home to the people who edit the Journal of International Affairs. They are graduate students. The scholars and specialists whose work fills a typical academic journal are not the ones deciding what runs in this one. Students still working toward their degrees make those decisions. The journal appears twice a year, which makes it a biannual publication, and it carries an academic focus on foreign affairs. The top editorial job is the editor-in-chief. The journal keeps a record of the people who hold or have held that title, a roll that stretches back through its decades of publication.

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