About the journal
Aims and scope
The journal publishes original research, systematic reviews and policy papers in strategic studies, political economy, international relations, security studies, development and governance, legal studies and digital media. It welcomes work that joins methodological rigour to applicability in public policy, and accepts submissions in Arabic and English on equal terms.
Open access
Everything the journal publishes is free to read and download from the moment of publication — no subscription, no registration, no embargo. The journal undertakes never to place published content behind a paywall at any later date.
Publication ethics
Editors, reviewers and authors are bound by the accepted standards of research integrity: confidentiality of manuscripts, disclosure of conflicts of interest, declining to review where a connection to the work or its authors exists, and attributing every work to whoever produced it. Allegations of misconduct are handled on a track independent of the review process.
Plagiarism and originality
Every manuscript is screened before it is sent for review. A manuscript found to contain substantial plagiarism is rejected and the author's institution is informed. On submission, the author declares that the work is original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
Corrections and retractions
An error that does not affect the findings is handled by a correction notice linked to the original article. A substantive error or established misconduct leads to retraction with a visible notice, while the original text remains available and marked as retracted — the scholarly record is corrected, never erased.
Digital preservation
The journal keeps its content on the institute's infrastructure with periodic backups, and undertakes to deposit it with an independent preservation service so that articles remain available even if the journal ceases to publish.
Journal record
Journal specimen record; fields awaiting approval are explicitly identified.
- Publisher
- Eissa Institute for Strategic Studies and Leadership
- Frequency
- Quarterly — four issues a year
- Published since
- 2026
- Review type
- Double-blind
- Access
- Fully open access — no reader charge and no embargo
- ISSN (online)
- Awaiting confirmationThe ISSN appears once it is officially registered; an unregistered number is never displayed.
- ISSN (print)
- Awaiting confirmation
- Licence
- Awaiting confirmationThe licence is published once the institute approves it.
- Article processing charge
- Awaiting confirmationThe charge policy is published once approved — including if there is no charge.
- Indexed in
- Awaiting confirmationIndexing services are listed once the journal is accepted by them, and not before.