Security Dialogue
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Security Dialogue is a peer-reviewed academic journal
Academic journal
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 that publishes scholarly articles which combine contemporary theoretical analysis with challenges to public policy across a wide-ranging field of security studies
Security Studies
This article refers to the discipline within the field of International Relations. For the study of security management see security management studiesSecurity Studies is an academic sub-field of the wider discipline of International Relations...

. The journal’s editorial office is located at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and has been under the editorship of J. Peter Burgess since June 2001. Marit Moe-Pryce joined the editorial office in the capacity of Managing Editor in 2004. Security Dialogue has an ISI impact factor of 1.490 and is ranked as number 10 out of 59 in International Relations.

History

Security Dialogue was founded by Marek Thee i 1970 under the name Bulletin of Peace Proposals. The aim was to systematically present, compare and discuss ideas, plans and proposals for development, justice and peace. The name of the journal was changed to Security Dialogue in September 1992, a reflection of its increasing academic ambition under the editorship of Magne Barth (1992-1996) and Pavel Baev
Pavel Baev
Pavel Kimovich Baev , is a Norwegian political scientist and security scholar. He is currently a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo ....

 (1995-2001). Security Dialogue took a new academic turn under J. Peter Burgess, focusing on theoretical analysis, revisiting and recasting the concept of security through new approaches and methodologies.

Abstracting and indexing

Security Dialogue is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS
Scopus
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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index
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. According to the Journal Citation Reports
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, its 2010 impact factor
Impact factor
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is 1.600, ranking it 9 out of 78 journals in the category ‘International Relations’.

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