Focus and scope

The Journal Política Internacional, is a peer-reviewed, Open Access, Diamond/Platinum OA scientific serial publication, edited and published by the Raúl Roa García Higher Institute of International Relations, from Cuba.

It primarily publishes original research articles, as well as systematic or narrative reviews and reflection articles that offer original, well-founded critical analysis, which constitute the core of its scientific content. Additionally, empirical or theoretical research notes, Interviews with prominent figures in the field of international relations, and critical reviews of recent books or research of academic relevance, provided they contribute to debate and the advancement of knowledge.

Committed to the global dissemination of knowledge, the journal publishes all of its content in various repositories, guaranteeing open access to information for all interested parties. Manuscript submission, processing, review, editing, and publication are free of charge (no article processing charges - APCs). The journal also supports open science, accepting manuscripts previously submitted to preprint servers for review and possible publication.

It seeks to promote international participation and diversity in authors, reviewers, and topics.

Thematic Coverage

Its objective is to contribute to the study, research, and development of political science, with a special emphasis on international relations, as well as the analysis of international politics from an interdisciplinary perspective, addressing, among other things, its theoretical, historical, political, economic, legal, communicational, and social dimensions. Its thematic coverage includes, but is not limited to, the following fields:

  • Theory and methodology of international relations.
  • History of international relations.
  • Geopolitics and geoeconomics.
  • Multilateralism, international organizations, global and regional governance.
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy.
  • Country, regional, and comparative studies in international politics.
  • Economic relations and international political economy.
  • International monetary and financial architecture.
  • International law.
  • Conflicts, peace, and international security.
  • Human rights.
  • Sustainable development.
  • Poles, blocs, alliances, and power actors, both traditional and emerging, in international relations.
  • Non-state actors, transnational social movements, and global civil society.
  • Competition, confrontation, cooperation, coordination, association, and international integration.
  • International political communication.
  • Technology, cybersecurity, and international relations.
  • International environmental policy and climate diplomacy.
  • Global challenges (e.g., climate change, migration, global health, pandemics, food security, transnational organized crime, terrorism, etc.) from the perspective of international relations.

Target audience

The journal is aimed at academics, researchers, students, professionals, and decision-makers in the fields of international relations and political science, as well as the study and analysis of international politics.

Languages

Receives and publishes contributions in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

For all contributions, regardless of the language of the full text, it is mandatory to include the title, abstract, and keywords in English. This facilitates the visibility and retrievability of articles in international databases.

Type of license

The entire content of the journal is accessible and protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) License, which permits its use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, as well as the creation of derivative works, provided that the original author is cited and acknowledged and that it is for non-commercial purposes.

Mission

To publish and disseminate, nationally and internationally, high-quality original research, as well as rigorous and critical analysis, that contribute to the study, updating, and debate of political science, with special emphasis on international relations and the analysis of international politics.

Vision

To be a scientific journal of reference, with national and international recognition and visibility in the field of international relations and the analysis of international politics, contributing to the advancement of studies related to the thematic areas it deals with.

Certifications, registration and indexing

The journal is certified by CITMA (Code 2295920), registered in the National Register of Serial Publications (RNPS No. 2092, Folio 098, Volume III) and has an electronic (2707-7330) and printed (1810-9330) ISSN.

It is included or indexed in the following national and international directories, catalogues, portals, platforms, repositories, networks and search engines for scientific and academic content:

DIRECTORIES:

DOAJ  (Directory of Open Access Journals), CLASE (Citas LatinoamericanasenCienciasSociales y Humanidades), EUROPUB (Directory of Academic and Scientific Journals), ROAD (Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources), CiteFactor, DRJI (Directory of Research Journals Indexing), Journament (Journal Indexing and Scoring Service), Latindex.

SPECIALISED CATALOGUES:

Catálogo Latindex 2.0, WorldCat, AURA

INDEX OF JOURNALS:

ERIHPLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), LatinREV (Red latinoamericana de revistasacadémicasencienciassociales y humanidades), I2OR (International Institute of Organized Research), ResearchBib (Academic Resource Index), SIS (Scientific Indexing Service), Global Scholar Index, Eurasian Scientific Journal Index.

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PORTALS:

BIBLAT (Bibliografía Latinoamericana), CLACSO (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales), MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas), Redalyc (Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc), AmeliCA, EDUNIV (Red de Editoriales Universitarias), RedCien (Red Cubana de la Ciencia), LiVre (Revista de livre acceso).

AGGREGATION PLATFORMS AND REPOSITORIES OF SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC CONTENT:

REDIB (Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge), ZENODO (General-purpose open access repository)

ZENODO (General Purpose Open Access Repository)

OpenAIRE (General Purpose Open Access Repository)

ACADEMIC NETWORKS:

Google Scholar, ISIDORE

SEARCH ENGINES FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC CONTENT:

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), MIR@BEL

 

Persistent Identifiers
DOI
All articles published in Política Internacional are assigned a unique and permanent digital object identifier (DOI) to facilitate their perpetuity, location, and retrieval.

ORCID
Authors publishing in Política Internacional must provide their persistent ORCID identifier to eliminate ambiguity in their names and signatures and facilitate correct attribution of authorship of their articles.