Year: 2020
Type: editorial
Abstract: We are delighted to become the new editors of the European Journal of International Security (EJIS), taking it into a new decade and building upon the excellent work of Tim Edmunds and his team.Our first task is to thank the previous editors for establishing and then developing a journal thatin a relatively short period of timealready has a reputation for outstanding scholarship and for pushing the boundaries of debates about 'security'.We are committed to continuing that mission for EJIS as an inclusive, cutting-edge forum, and to raising its profile globally.It is not our intention in this editorial to prescribe an exclusive vision of EJIS in terms of subject, conceptual boundaries, or methodological approach; on the contrary, this will continue to be a pluralistic journal with an emphasis, above all, upon theoretical and empirical rigour and originality.Nevertheless, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon security studies and to consider how EJIS might continue to play an ever more defining role in this field over the next four years.We would like EJIS to be globally engaged and inclusive, in terms of who publishes in the journal, the substance of the articles that we publish, their theoretical and geographical scope, and the ways in which we will hopefully shape debates.Recent research has demonstrated that IR journals in general have a clear gender gap, and also perform poorly when it comes to including scholars from the Global South.We share the British International Studies Association's commitment to address this imbalance.Global engagement is, for us, a part of a broader movement to reflect the post-colonial, post-Western shift in IR.Debates are (or should be) now moving beyond the time when 'Western' preoccupations and scholars defined the field, and there is growing recognition that security studies comes with ethnocentric, patriarchal, and cultural baggage that must be acknowledged and possibly challenged.Blind spots, or silences, in many areas of security studies have been identified, leading to creative thematisations and new articulations of what security can mean and where it is located.We want to be open to these debates about what constitutes 'security' and security studies, which is clearly no longer defined by conventional IR boundaries either in terms of conceptual scope or empirical challenges.Security studies scholars are looking further afield and outside of the traditional disciplinary boundaries and canons that defined twentieth-century IR and security studies.We will therefore fully support and work with a BISA initiative in 2020 aimed at strengthening engagement withand increasing submissions from -Global South scholars in International Studies.This will result in a BISA strategy for enhancing the level of submissions and acceptances
DOI: 10.1017/eis.2019.28
Language: Spanish
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4234322972