The journal moved from the IPR headquarters in New York to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1961.

Subscribers also have access to the entire contents of the journal from its inception in 1926 in JSTOR with a four-year moving wall.

Some recent themes include renegotiating social risks in China and Japan, seeking agency for change in a hypermobile world, and ocean claims in the South Pacific.

A review article is more in-depth, longer and compares the conclusions of several different authors on a single topic.

[6] In terms of chronological coverage, books that deal with topics before the 1900s are not reviewed unless there are explicit thematic or analytical links to contemporary affairs and/or theory.