International Relations of the Asia-Pacific is a triannual, peer-reviewed, academic journal, established in 2001, and published by the Oxford University Press on behalf of the Japan Association of International Relations (Japanese: Nihon Kokusai Seiji Gakkai, 日本国際政治学会), and assisted by HighWire Press.

It is also the official journal of the Japan Association of International Relations.

[1] The journal also functions as a forum for regional issues, points of view, presentation of scholarship, methodological approaches, schools of thought, and new ideas.

Contributors work in all areas of the international relations field.

[1] Publishing formats encompass original research (6,000 to 10,000 words), research notes (less than 10,000), book chapters, review essay articles (3,000–4,000), book reviews (600–1,000).