Its aim is to publish and disseminate world-leading research that critically explores the problems of the modern international.

It welcomes analyses of local, global and international transformations that challenge statist understandings of our world, and encourages research that creatively re-works the constitutive dichotomies holding our world together (e.g. state and society, national and international, social and political).

It also seeks to develop the already established connections between International Relations (IR), Politics and Sociology by fostering transdisciplinary collaborations between scholars in other disciplines who are critically interrogating the international sphere (e.g. Human Geographers, Anthropologists, and Political Theorists).

Finally, it seeks to broaden the community that engages with international studies beyond the usual circuits of North American and European scholarship so as to better reflect the diverse populations constituting the global realm.

Since 2017, the Editor-in-Chief is Debbie Lisle with Co-Editors Vicki Squire, Roxanne Doty and Alex Hall.