Introduction

Abstract

The Journal of Global Security Studies has been a long time in the making. As the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of ISA grew larger and more vibrant, it developed into a big tent under which many different definitions of security, styles of analysis, and normative frameworks coexisted. At the same time, a host of ISA sections, such as Peace Studies, Intelligence Studies, International Political Sociology (IPS), Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies (ENMISA), Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS), Scientific Study of International Politics (SSIP), and many others were addressing related issues. Appreciation of ISA’s trajectory spurred the idea of creating a security journal that would be a big tent, to do for security what International Studies Quarterly did for all of international studies. The idea gained traction, though, as the journal’s purpose morphed from providing a big tent to serving as a forum in which analysts from different perspectives would actually interact, challenge, and engage with one another. An explicit mission of encouraging conversation between different parts of the security field attracted more interest from ISSS members, from scholars in other sections (including those on the editorial team and board), and from ISA as a whole. Hence, the Journal of Global Security Studies (JoGSS) was born.