[1] The website has published since November 2007, and was incorporated as a nonprofit organisation in 2011.
[2] E-IR contains a mixture of open access books, articles, essays, and features, broadly aimed at students and scholars of international politics.
Prominent contributors have included Ted Robert Gurr,[3] Harsh V. Pant,[4] Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.,[5] Rohan Gunaratna,[6] David R. Marples, Anand Menon, Barry Rubin, I. William Zartman, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jolyon Howorth, John Redwood, Brian Barder, Andrew Linklater, Filip Ivanović, Roie Yellinek and Stephen Chan.
E-IR is listed under sites of related interest by the London School of Economics[8] and is recommended by leading professors and diplomats.
[citation needed] Its articles have been cited by The Wall Street Journal's blog,[9] the Brookings Institution,[10] the Stanley Foundation,[11] and The Daily Beast.