Brown Journal of World Affairs

Name

Brown Journal of World Affairs

Legal name

The Brown Journal of World Affairs

Website

https://bjwa.brown.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

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Product category

Academic Journal Publication

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

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PRIMARYMPAJABAC

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Educational & Academic Publishing (Textbooks, Scholarly, STM)

SECONDARYEDAGAFAD

Social Sciences Scholarly Publishing

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

Keywords

• Scholarly academic publishing
• International affairs journal
• Peer-reviewed publications
• Global policy analysis
• International relations research

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Providence

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United States

HQ region

North America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

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Revenue model

1. Subscription Revenue: The journal generates revenue through subscription-based access to its publication content, with readers subscribing to receive or access issues of the Brown Journal of World Affairs.
2. Advertisement: The journal maintains an advertisement page (bjwa.brown.edu/advertisement/) indicating revenue generation through advertising within the publication.

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Core offering

The Brown Journal of World Affairs is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Brown University that distributes scholarly articles, essays, interviews, and book reviews on international relations, global policy, geopolitics, foreign policy, human rights, and global economics. The journal also produces the Global Visions Podcast, which features interviews with scholars and practitioners in international affairs.

Product overview

The Brown Journal of World Affairs is a single academic publication by Brown University, comprising a peer-reviewed journal published twice yearly and an associated podcast called the Global Visions Podcast. The journal serves as the primary product, featuring articles, essays, and interviews on international affairs. The podcast extends the publication's reach through audio interviews with scholars and practitioners in the field.

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Functional benefit

Brands

• Global Visions Podcast: Podcast featuring interviews with experts in international relations, global policy, and world affairs.

Products and services

• Brown Journal of World Affairs (Publication) A biannual peer-reviewed academic journal focused on international affairs and global policy, published by Brown University. The journal publishes issues containing scholarly articles, essays, interviews, and book reviews covering topics such as geopolitics, foreign policy, human rights, and global economics.
• Global Visions Podcast A podcast series featuring interviews with experts, scholars, and practitioners discussing international relations, global affairs, and policy topics. Episodes include conversations with academics, policy makers, and professionals from various fields.

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Broad incumbents

• Foreign Affairs: Published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs is the most established U.S. journal on international relations and global policy. It is the closest broad incumbent to BJWA, serving overlapping audiences of policymakers, academics, and engaged citizens with longer-form essays on world affairs.
• The Economist: While a generalist news weekly, The Economist maintains a substantial international-affairs editorial product and competes for policy-minded reader subscriptions and institutional access. Broader incumbent that overlaps thematically and in audience.
• Foreign Policy: Foreign Policy magazine publishes essays and analysis on global affairs, geopolitics, and international relations. It targets a similar scholar-and-practitioner readership and competes for the same institutional library subscriptions and policy-maker attention.

Others

• CFR's Renewing the International Order project: Adjacent nonprofit policy publishing entity that produces scholarly output on world affairs and foreign policy. Relevant as an institutional comparator for the kind of nonprofit, university-style publication platform BJWA operates within.

Direct peers

• International Affairs (Chatham House): Peer-reviewed journal published by Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) covering international relations. It is a direct scholarly peer — same peer-reviewed format, same target audience of academics and policy professionals, and similar biannual-to-quarterly cadence.
• World Policy Journal: World Policy Journal is a peer-reviewed quarterly on international affairs and policy. Comparable in subject matter, academic orientation, and recurring scholarly format aimed at policy and academic readers.
• Harvard International Review: Student-published but peer-reviewed journal at Harvard University covering international affairs. Highly comparable as another Ivy League-affiliated, biannual scholarly journal serving the same policy and academic reader base.
• Survival (IISS): Published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Survival covers strategy, defence and international affairs in a peer-reviewed format. Strong peer match given shared scholarly format, policy focus, and reach into government and academic institutional audiences.
• Journal of International Affairs (Columbia): Peer-reviewed journal of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University covering global affairs. Directly comparable to BJWA in being a university-hosted scholarly journal targeting scholars and practitioners in international relations.
• The Washington Quarterly: Peer-reviewed journal published by the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, focused on U.S. foreign policy and global strategic issues. Directly comparable as a university-affiliated scholarly journal on international affairs.

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Customer concentration

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