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Review Guidelines
The goals of the peer review are to critically evaluate the quality of a given manuscript, highlight its strengths and weaknesses, indicate how it could be improved and help the Editorial Team of CEJISS make a decision.
A good review should:
be critical and to the point;
be constructive...
In 2026, the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. How can we better celebrate than with a thematic section that explores the politics of anniversaries? In this call, we invite prospective authors to analyse different aspects of the...
A conflict of interest is defined as any direct or indirect interest that might influence the reading, assessment of or conducting of the research reported in the submission. Any interests within a five-year period prior to beginning the research are considered relevant, although interests outside...
How ‘global’ is ‘Global IR’? How inclusive is International Relations as an academic discipline and which kinds of inclusion/exclusion can be identified in discourses, institutions and practices in international politics? These debates are certainly not new and, moreover, they are erupting to the surface...
Collections are the editors' picks of articles previously published across different issues of CEJISS. They are to highlight the key topics and themes that have been addressed by CEJISS, and typically correspond with the Journal's aims and scope. The individual collections will be added gradually, and...
Citation metrics
SJR best quartile (2025) = Q2 in Political Science and International Relations
SJR best quartile (2024) = Q2 in Political Science and International Relations
SJR (2025) = 0.480
SJR (2024) = 0.325
CiteScore (2025) = 1.9 (Q2 - Political Science and International Relations)
CiteScore...
From the beginning of 2025 onwards, all articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Its summary can be found here.
Authors can review our licence agreement in advance (English).
Until the end of 2024, CEJISS articles were published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
Copyright for the published...
CEJISS invites submissions to the next thematic section focused on decolonising CEE. This thematic section seeks to connect politics in and of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), on the one hand, and decolonial approaches, on the other hand. We understand decolonial approaches (decolonial thinking and...
The CEJISS Editorial Team invites contributions analysing security integration and cooperation in Europe at the regional and, especially, sub-regional level. While the EU and NATO are the dominant security platforms in this regard, European states have also explored other possibilities of integration...
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has experienced a long, complex and sometimes complicated engagement with different great powers. For the most part, European powers, USA and Russia have been key for the fortunes of CEE. However, as non-Western powers rise and the global balance of power changes, it...
How do populist actors advance their agenda in international politics, and what is their approach to international organisations? International Relations and Political Science scholars typically regard populist leaders, governments and parties as disruptive forces undermining the stability of the international...
The purpose of thematic sections is to contribute to the existing or emerging academic debates that converge and intersect with the aims and scope of CEJISS. Thematic sections are organised around a predefined topic.
When submitting a thematic section contribution, please make sure that you respond...
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Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS, the Journal) is committed to publishing high-quality research and upholding the integrity of the scientific record. To meet this objective, the peer review and publication processes should be transparent, impartial, and fair. The...
Annual Award
Annual awards are given to the best articles published in a print issue of CEJISS in the given year. Recipients of the annual award are selected by the CEJISS Editorial Board on the basis of overall academic quality and contribution.
2025
Awarded paper (winner): Maria Perfetto: Weaponisation...
Research (Academic) Article Requirements
Research goal/question explicitly defined
Relationship vis-à-vis the existing literature on a given topic clearly articulated (a separate literature review section is not necessary, but it should be clear how the paper builds on or relates to the existing...
CEJISS is indexed by the following databases:
- Scopus
- ERIH Plus
- ProQuest
- Ebsco
- SCImago (SJR)
- Google Scholar
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
More information on the Journal's metrics is available here.
Affiliation:
Dr Vit Benes is affiliated with Metropolitan University Prague. He focuses on International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, European Studies.
Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS) is a quarterly journal that publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles across the entire field of International Relations and International Security. CEJISS is a pluralist journal. It favours a variety of theories and methods used...