CRIA was established in 1985 by doctoral students in the Centre of International Studies (now part of the Department of Politics and International Studies) at the University of Cambridge.

It is staffed by postgraduate students based at the university.

Its current editorial team is led by editors-in-chief Mark Barrow and Taif Alkhudary.

Networks, territories and rescaling by Erik Swyngedouw, Does capitalism need the state system?

by Alex Callinicos, Europe's others and the return of geopolitics by Thomas Diez, and Environmental security and climate change: analysing the discourse by Maria Julia Trombetta.