Focus and Scope

Journal of Global Focus (JGF) is a bilingual peer-reviewed journal that issues bi-annually in April and October. The Journal is managed and published by the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya. Global Focus is an interdisciplinary journal that welcomes manuscripts of original empirical, analytic, and theoretical of global studies.

The purpose of Journal of Global Focus (JGF) is to provide readers a broad, complex, and dynamic process of interactive decision-making that is continually evolving and responding to global political changes. The particular topics relevant to this Journal are international security, global political economy, global ethics and culture, transnational issues, and other related sub-fields. The Journal focuses on these main themes: 

  • the rising of transnational actors/issues within global politics;
  • the alternative and beyond states perspective, and;
  • the interplay of global-local/international-domestic.

Journal of Global Focus (JGF) publishes the following types of manuscripts:

  • Original Research Articles: The manuscripts should be approximately 4000-8000 words.
  • Book Review: The manuscripts should be approximately 1500-2000 words. The manuscripts must contain the current state of understanding on the relevant topic by analyzing and discussing previous research.