Armed Forces & Society
Military & Strategic Studies | Peace Studies/Conflict Resolution | Sociology (General)
Contact Information:
Editorial Office
Department of Political Science
University Academic Center, Rm.370
601 University Drive
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
Phone: (703) 853-9170
Email: afsjournal@iusafs.org
Armed Forces & Society is the leading peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and international journal publishing on topics such as
- Civil Military Relations
- Military Organizations
- Use of Force
- Conflict Resolution
- Logic and Consequences of War
- Terrorism
- Military Leadership & Professionalism
- Ethics
- Security
- Arms Control
- Peacekeeping
- Defense Economics
- Recruitment and Retention
- Reserve Forces and Veterans
- Representation Issues
- Family and Health Issues
- Military History
Armed Forces & Society publishes empirical, theoretically-informed articles, research notes, book reviews, and review essays. Its articles may adopt an interdisciplinary, comparative, or historical perspective, use qualitative or quantitative methods, and range from policy-relevant to theoretical themes—but they always meet the highest standards of intellectual rigor, scholarly argument, evidence, and readability.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/afs.
Armed Forces & Society: an interdisciplinary journal publishes articles quarterly on civil-military relations, veterans, force effectiveness and diversity, military culture, officer education and training, military institutions, ethics, unit cohesion, military families, peacemaking, privatization, public opinion, and conflict management. The journal is international in scope with a focus on interdisciplinary and policy discourse. The editors and contributors include political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal scholars, historians, and economists, as well as specialists in military organization and strategy, and peacekeeping.
For further exploration, please read Dr. Pat Shields’s “Dynamic Intersection of Military and Society” (2020).
Armed Forces & Society: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement
Traversing the fine line between armed violence and peacekeeping, our mission at Armed Forces & Society is to represent fully the constituents we serve as well as those underserved or marginalized throughout history and today. Our international team of scholars and reviewers reflects and champions the diversity of our audience across the spectrum of human experience. We aspire to equity in our policy and administration. We are committed to inclusion. We endeavor to cultivate peace.
| Patricia M. Shields | Texas State University, San Marcos, USA |
| Donald S. Travis | Texas State University, USA |
| David L. Albright | The University of Alabama, USA |
| Charles (Chuck) Allen | US Army War College, USA |
| Eyal Ben-Ari | Kinneret College, Israel |
| Bernard Boene | L'Ecole Superieure Militaire de Saint-Cyr, France |
| Risa Brooks | Marquette University, USA |
| Richard Chasdi | Walsh College, Michigan, USA |
| Lindsay Cohn | U.S. Naval War College, USA |
| Damon Coletta | United States Air Force Academy, USA |
| Thomas Crosbie | Royal Danish Defense College, Denmark |
| Christopher Dandeker | King's College London, UK |
| Thomas Doyle | Texas State University, USA |
| Antulio Echevarria | U.S. Army War College, USA |
| Morten Ender | United States Military Academy, USA |
| Peter D. Feaver | Duke University, USA |
| Nir Gazit | Ruppin Academic Center, Israel |
| Andrea Ghiselli | Fudan University, China |
| Irina Goldenberg | Department of National Defence, Canada |
| Lindy Heinecken | Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Ramon Hinojosa | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Moses Khisa | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Anthony King | University of Exeter, UK |
| Gerhard Kuemmel | Bundeswehr Institute of Social Research, Germany |
| Terence Lee | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Christian Leuprecht | Royal Military College of Canada, Canada |
| Yagil Levy | The Open University of Israel, Israel |
| Robert Mandel | Lewis and Clark College, USA |
| Laura Miller | RAND, USA |
| Rene Moelker | Netherlands Defence Academy, Netherlands |
| Brenda Moore | State University of New York at Buffalo, USA |
| Emmanuel Ojo | University of Ilorin, Nigeria |
| Ami Pedahzur | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| David Pion-Berlin | University of California, Riverside, USA |
| Jonathan Powell | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Jos C. N. Raadschelders | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Sebastiaan Rietjens | Netherlands Defense Academy, Netherlands |
| Chiara Ruffa | Uppsala University, Sweden |
| William Ruger | American Institute of Economic Research, USA |
| Rebecca L. Schiff | U.S. Naval War College, USA |
| Ryan Scott | US Army |
| Anders Sookermany | Norwegian Defence University College, Norway |
| Ori Swed | Texas Tech University, USA |
| Hassan Tajalli | Texas State University, USA |
| Jeremy M. Teigen | Ramapo College, USA |
| Pascal Vennesson | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Robert A. Vitas | Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, USA |
| Travis Whetsell | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| John Allen Williams | Loyola University, Chicago, USA |
| Morris Janowitz | (1973-1983) |
| David R. Segal | (1983-1989) |
| Claude Welch | (1989-1993) |
| Jay Stanley | (1992-1995) |
| James Burk | (1995-1998) |
| Mark Eitelberg | (1998-2001) |
| Donald S. Travis | Texas State University, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.