Abstract
Security Dialogue has moved forward with some significant leadership changes in recent months. We would like to announce a renewal of the editorial team and, in the name of transparency, state clearly and positively the review processes and culture of Security Dialogue.
We are delighted to welcome a new associate editor to the team: Emily Gilbert from the University of Toronto. Emily’s research addresses citizenship, mobility, borders, security, and militaries. She has also worked on political economy, credit, currency, gifts, and military compensation. She publishes widely in geography and international relations, and brings editorial experience from War, Citizenship, Territory with Deborah Cowen (2008) and Nation-States and Money with Eric Helleiner (1999).
I will be also taking on the role of Editor for the period of 2015–2018. I have been an associate editor at Security Dialogue since 2008 and have also served as associate editor at International Political Sociology, the Journal of Transport Security, and Millennium. I have also edited a number of projects, including Making Things International 2 (2016) and Making Things International 1 (2015), Research Methods in Critical Security Studies with Can Mutlu (2013), Mapping Transatlantic Security Relations (2010), and Politics at the Airport (2008). I am thrilled to be leading the Security Dialogue team, and count it as one of the most active, exciting, and engaging intellectual communities in the field.
In doing so, I follow two friends and colleagues: interim editor Claudia Aradau and the long-time editor of Security Dialogue, J Peter Burgess. We sincerely appreciate Claudia taking on the role. She led our team with her well-known wide curiosity, clear judgement, and good humor, and will, happily, be remaining on our associate editor team. Peter’s contribution to the current success of Security Dialogue can hardly be over-stated: he joined the journal as editor in 2001 and is largely responsible for the strong community that Security Dialogue serves (Wanneau, 2016). He has certainly been instrumental in setting the tone of generosity and rigor, the culture of engagement, mentorship, and service, and the superlative hospitality that characterizes the best conversations in the field. During that time, Peter also published extensively, including The Ethical Subject of Security (2011) and The Handbook of New Security Studies (2009). We wish Peter all success as he takes up his role as Professor and Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Security Dialogue has made a commitment to seek novelty, innovation, and quality and to create a culture of rigorous generosity. To maintain the standards of which we are rightly proud, all published articles undergo careful double-blind peer-review with three external reviewers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our editorial board members for their support and strategic input over the past few years. Our editorial team meetings have a dynamic and collegial quality that make them one of the most exciting parts of my professional life, and we are confident that the care and attention we devote to our authors is visible in our pages.
Security Dialogue is a journal of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, which is dedicated to conducting research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups, and people. PRIO has been committed to Security Dialogue and its previous iterations as the Bulletin of Peace Proposals since 1970. In addition to the support of Kristian Berg Harpviken and the leader team, we would also like to acknowledge the hard work of Marit Moe-Pryce, our managing editor. The PRIO Security Research Group has been a vital and important community for Security Dialogue, and we would like to acknowledge Rocco Bellanova and Mareile Kaufmann for their support during the past year. Finally, our Editorial Board and external reviewers are also essential members of our community, and we would like to acknowledge all of their contribution and effort.
We remain committed to publishing cutting-edge theoretical work and new empirics in fields relating to security, and look forward to our next steps together.