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Three department members in this quarter's International Security journal

International Security is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of international and national security. It was founded in 1976 and is edited by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and published four times a year by MIT Press, both of Cambridge, MA.  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 4.455, ranking it 1st out of 85 journals in the category "International Relations". [Source: Wikipedia]

This quarter, former department DPhil student and current Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Dr Henning Tamm, has had an article included entitled 'The Origins of Transnational Alliances: Rulers, Rebels, and Political Survival in the Congo Wars'.

Dr Walter Ladwig, another former department DPhil student, and current Research Associate of the Center for International Studies, has also had an article included. His is entitled 'Influencing Clients in Counterinsurgency: U.S. Involvement in El Salvador's Civil War, 1979–92'.

In addition to both of these, Dr Lucas Kello has featured in a podcast associated with this issue on the subject of 'cyber revolution and security'.

Find out more about this edition of International Security on the MIT Press Direct website.