Millennium: Journal of International Studies is updating its book review policy.
Millennium welcomes review articles which interrogate recent, exciting work done in International Relations theory and related fields, as well as particular areas of recent literature in need of development. We encourage potential authors to carefully consider the following guidelines. NB: Final decisions rest with the editorial team, and fulfillment of these criteria does not guarantee publication.
We no longer have a Book Reviews Editor, and as such will no longer be soliciting review articles. Instead, we will accept review articles through our normal submission process (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mjis), after which they will undergo the same editorial process as other submissions.
Book reviews should:
- Make an original argument while reviewing 3-5 texts published within the last ~3 years.
- Be 3000-4000 words in length, including references.
- Name the texts under review at the top of the document, and refer to any other texts through proper citation. Please note that our review articles generally do not have a bibliography, and so citations after acceptance will be Chicago footnotes, in line with the Journal’s house style. Pre-acceptance, any citation style is acceptable – if the full publication information is not included in the citation (i.e., Harvard in-text), please include a bibliography for editorial and reviewer reference.
- focus on making a coherent contribution, but various questions that might provide a starting point include: What is the purpose of the books under consideration, collectively or individually? To what extent are these aims accomplished? What is the context in which these works have been written? To what extent have these works responded effectively or appropriately to that context? How do the books differ among themselves in their approaches, and are some approaches more successful than others? What might be the implications of what these works have and have not accomplished? What should future scholarship continue to do or do differently?
While our readers have a broad range of interests, Millennium aims to publish critical, theoretical, and boundary-pushing scholarship. We welcome challenging and innovative contributions that articulate alternative theoretical perspectives and that explore subject areas with which IR has had little or no serious engagement. We encourage authors to keep our mandate in mind when selecting books.
Millennium can support with sourcing books for review articles – please email us at millennium@lse.ac.uk if you would like such support, or have further questions about book reviews. Please note that a majority of publishers share only digital copies of books for review.
Millennium also accepts book review fora. These generally involve 3-5 reviewers, with each writing up to 3000 words, plus a brief introduction to the forum and potentially a reply from the author of the reviewed work. Please email us if you would like to put together such a forum for Millennium.