New Team, Same Mission: JoGSS as a Broad Tent for Global Security Research

Abstract

This is an exciting time to be taking on the editorship of the Journal of Global Security Studies (JoGSS). The discipline of security studies appears to us to be in a creative and fragmenting state, with more scholars analyzing more issues in more diverse ways. We have the previous editorial team to thank for helping to foster that diversity. The astonishing range of articles they have published in the past five years demonstrates that their aspiration for the journal to be a “big tent” has been fulfilled. From the first issue, with Stacie Goddard and Daniel Nexon redescribing power politics, Laura Sjoberg's gendered analysis of security as felt experience, and Michael Ward's discussion of prediction, to the final issue, with Surulola Eke looking at counterinsurgency against Boko Haram, Jennifer Spindel and Robert Ralston's inquiry into transgender military inclusion and unit cohesion, and Tiffany Chu's article linking interstate rivalry to respect for human rights and acceptance of refugees, JoGSS has published an eclectic mix of articles on global security matters.