World Politics


World Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science and international relations. It is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Before 2003, it was sponsored by Princeton's Center of International Studies and before 1951, by the Yale Institute of International Studies. It was established in 1948 and the editor-in-chief is Deborah J. Yashar. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 3.025, ranking it 6th out of 86 journals in the category "International Relations" and 11th out of 165 in the category "Political Science".