Democracy and Security is the authoritative source for rigorous exploration of the mechanisms and policies utilized by democracies to deal with security challenges, as well as relevant moral, social, and political dilemmas. The journal publishes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical articles on concepts and functions that shape the relations between various international and national security policies, concerns, and needs on the one hand, and central values, institutions, and processes of democratic societies on the other. The journal is committed to provide exposure to diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, as well as policy approaches.
Democracy and Security features timely and informative contributions from leading scholars on a range of topics, including:
- Democratic societies and their struggle with domestic threats.
- Moral dimensions of national security in democracies.
- Legal dimensions of national security in democracies.
- Mass communications and national security.
- Social implications on national security issues.
- Constraints of democratic governments in shaping national security policy.
- Forms of government and perceptions of national dilemmas.
- Democracies, minorities, and national security.
- The role of civil society in shaping national security decisions in democratic regimes.
- Public opinion, counter-terrorism, and national security dilemmas.
- The politics of defense policies.
- The psychology of decision-making processes in the context of national security issues.
- Civilian sphere of domestic and human security.
- The role of the legislative branch in shaping security policies.
- Electoral processes, party politics, and national security.
Democracy and Security will be of interest to scholars from a variety of academic disciplines such as: political science, sociology, philosophy, law, psychology, mass communications, criminology, security studies, environmental studies, history, military studies, and anthropology.
Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, are then subject to peer review by two or more independent, anonymous expert referees. For special issues, articles will be reviewed by the journal editors and a single expert referee for all items in the special issue. Book reviews do not go through peer review and are typically solicited and assessed by the journal’s editorial team. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. The journal publishes a list of its referees in the last issue of each volume.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
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