The Quarterly of History of Foreign Relations has been published quarterly since January 1999 by the Center for Political and International Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Access to the articles published in this journal is open and free.
License: This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). That means readers are free to:
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Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requiring prior permission from the publisher or author.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Copyright: Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights.
Peer-Review Policy
The peer review process in journal is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and, vice versa.
Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to align with journal principles. Matches go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts (non-editorial staff) chosen by the Board based on specialty. The Board makes the final article selection.
Duties of Reviewers:
- Assist editor in decision-making and potentially help authors improve papers through editorial communication.
- Decline reviews if unqualified or unable to promptly review.
- Treat manuscripts as confidential documents and avoid unauthorized sharing.
- Conduct objective reviews, avoiding personal criticism and providing clear, supported feedback.
- Identify relevant, uncited published work and report potential plagiarism or overlap with other publications.
- Maintain confidentiality of information and ideas, avoiding personal gain or reviewing papers with conflicts of interest.
Self-archiving policies for authors
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in this Journal as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.
Other revenue
Institute for Political and International Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the publisher, covers the related costs including setting up and maintaining the publication infrastructure, the review process, peer review, editing, typesetting, and maintaining the article archive.