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Projections
Projections is an online, open-access, refereed journal. (Invited papers may also occasionally appear.) Submissions are sought from scholars, military officers, entrepreneurs, intelligence officers, and diplomats. Articles may be up to 50 pages in length, inclusive of text, maps, tables, charts, and citations. Thanks to the support of the Earhart Foundation, a small honorarium will be offered for articles appearing in the Volume 1. In 2009 Projections will appear on a biennial basis. Click to read more about the Editorial Policy, Style Guide, and Editors.
PROJECTIONS: THE JOURNAL OF THE MACKINDER FORUM
Editorial Policy
Projections is an online, open-access, refereed journal. (Invited papers may also occasionally appear.) Submissions are sought from scholars, military officers, entrepreneurs, intelligence officers, and diplomats. Articles may be up to 50 pages in length, inclusive of text, maps, tables, charts, and citations. Thanks to the support of the Earhart Foundation, a small honorarium will be offered for articles appearing in the Volume 1. In 2009 Projections will appear on a biennial basis.
Articles should explicitly address the issues of classical geopolitics and geo-strategy: the spatial context of the determinants of state power (i.e., political institutions, social solidarity, economic vitality, demographic change, territorial integrity, strategic locations, military posture, grand strategy, and alliances) and the international arena in which state power is exercised. Given the recent appearance of actors not aligned with states, the editors will also consider articles on how covert networks, corporations, NGOs, and so on exercise power in the international arena, provided the author incorporates an explicit geographic perspective.
Findings may be derived from theory, but they should be sufficiently "down to earth" as to have practical implications and to be based on empirical (quantitative and/or qualitative) research. While the editors prefer a regional or international scale, they will consider articles that address the geopolitics of a single nation, provided the article's argument has regional or international implications. Finally, predictive essays are welcome, provided the author grounds his arguments in carefully crafted historical narratives or analogies, an appreciation of current trends, an assessment of ongoing strategic interactions, or an evaluation of transformative contextual (i.e., climatic, environmental, astro-political, etc.) changes.
The editors seek the following genres of research to consider for publication: "advisories" by policy makers on the geopolitical or geo-strategic origins, course, and/or consequences of international crises; review essays of several studies or atlases addressing the same issue; essays based on maps the depicting emerging properties of the international system; and scholarly articles.
Style Guide
The editors have decided to reduce the "friction" associated with preparing articles for publication by adopting the style guide of the American Psychological Association (APA). The official APA style rules and guidelines are set out in a reference book called "The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association." In the fifth edition of the "Publication Manual," the style for footnotes and notes may be found on pp. 202-214 and for the references, pp. 215-281. Chapter 5, pp. 283-320, indicates how to prepare a manuscript for submission. Helpful APA guides may also be found at the College of Wooster APA Research Style Crib Sheet and at University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
Editors:
Professor James D. Hardy, Jr., Ph.D.
Member, Advisory Board, Mackinder Forum - US
Department of History
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
United States
Professor Leonard Hochberg, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Mackinder Forum - US
Independent scholar;
Former Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Stanford University; &
Former Associate Professor – Research and Co-Director
Center for Geopolitical Studies
Louisiana State University
Associate Editors:
Dr. Ioannis Loucas
Senior Advisor
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems
Hamburg, Germany
Professor Mackubin T. Owens
Member, Advisory Board, Mackinder Forum - US
Strategy and Force Planning
Naval War College
Newport, RI 02841-1207
United States
Dr. Pascal Venier
Lecturer in French and International History
School of Languages and European Studies Research Institute
University of Salford
Greater Manchester M5 4WT
United Kingdom
Dr. Geoffrey Sloan
Coordinator, Mackinder Forum - UK
Director of the Graduate Institute of Political and International Relations
Department of Politics & International Relations
University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 218
Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AA,
United Kingdom.
