''International Security'' is a

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in the field of international and

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. It was founded in 1976 and is edited by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at

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and published four times a year by

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, both of

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. The current editor-in-chief is Steven E. Miller (Harvard). ''International Security'' is among the leading journals in the field of international relations. According to ''

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'', it has a 2017

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of 4.135, ranking it 2nd out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations". Along with '' Security Studies'', it is among the most prominent journals dedicated to security studies. Articles in ''International Security'' tend to deploy qualitative methods, in particular qualitative historical analysis. Articles are also more likely to include policy prescriptions than other leading IR journals. The first article in ''International Security'' was Hedley Bull's "Arms Control and World Order."

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