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Hemisferio, the Journal of the IADC, aims to promote research on issues related to security and defense in the Western Hemisphere. It is an annual, non-profit journal with a multidisciplinary approach, which is affiliated to the academic program of this center of higher studies. The journal has the TURNITIN program for plagiarism detection in digital texts, which ensures the originality of the articles. The spectrum of thematic areas is broad, thus contributing to the analysis of security and defense issues from different perspectives, such as: Strategic Thinking, International Relations, Political Economy, Forecasting Methodology, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Civil-Military Relations, Multidimensional Security, Cybersecurity, Defense and Security Policies, Development, Leadership, and Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The editorial team is comprised of specialists and researchers, both from the IADC and from outside the College, whose expertise in the topics covered in the journal makes them a key component in maintaining a quality control of the contents in papers published. 

Open Access

The IADC Publications team has published 8 open access hybrid journals

HEMISFERIO is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

(CC BY NC) license

Subject Focussed Approach

Our list of high quality journals gives your research a home alongside peer-reviewed content.

a note from our editor chief

The Inter-American Defense College encourages critical thinking through a frank and open debate on regional security and defense problems, challenges, and threats. Our university campus provides a space for exchanging knowledge and experiences among academics, experts, officials, and high-ranking civilians, who address current issues from a hemispheric perspective. Hemisferio was created to encourage critical analysis. Every year, our academic journal publishes works and research by our alumni, professors, and colleagues from other institutions, thus contributing to the reflection on the security and defense issues that most concern our region.

Mirlis Reyes Salarichs, Ph.D

about our peer-review

A peer review system is applied to evaluate any academic work given its possible publication. This method is the most accepted in the international scientific community. It aims to filter out those papers that do not meet the minimum standard for publication in an academic or scientific journal based on quality, originality, and validity.

IADC follows the double-blind peer review system, whereby the reviewers do not know the authors’ identity and vice versa. The following diagram shows our peer-review process:

Peer-review system

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Submission Guidelines - Call for papers

The Inter-American Defense College (IADC) extends an invitation to all who would like to contribute scientific articles for the periodical published by our center for advanced studies.

Hemisferio, the official IADC magazine, is devoted to promoting research in areas related Western Hemispheric security and defense. It is an annual publication, which is non-profit and presents a multidisciplinary approach, associated with the College advanced studies program. The broad spectrum of subject areas contributes to the analysis of security and defense related challenges from diverse perspectives including: Strategic Thinking, International Relations, Political Economy, Future Studies Methodologies, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Civil-Military Relations, Multidimensional Security, Cybersecurity, Defense and Security Policies, Development, Leadership, and Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

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