Research

Research pieces are the Review's peer-reviewed track. They are longer, more methodologically explicit, and held to the standards of academic publication — original contribution, documented methodology, named external reviewers, and a clear statement of what the piece claims and what it does not. Each Research piece carries an executive summary, and the full methodology is available for replication or challenge. The Research track exists because the most important questions at the intersection of emerging technology and strategic affairs are often questions that require methodological rigour to answer — and because the journals that provide that rigour are frequently too slow, too specialist, or too removed from operational reality to reach the readers who need the work. The Review's Research pieces are written for both audiences: they meet the standards a scholar would apply, and they are edited to be readable by a senior policy professional who will not wade through unnecessary technical apparatus. Peer reviewers are named and credited. Where a Research piece touches on classified or commercially sensitive material, the editors publish a statement of what was reviewed and what the authors were unable to include. The Review does not publish Research pieces that cannot be fully defended in public.