| Discipline | Social sciences |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Columbia University Journal of Law and Public Policy |
| History | 1989–present |
| Publisher | Helvidius Group (United States) |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Politics Soc. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1555-7359 |
| LCCN | 2004255117 |
| OCLC no. | 54849951 |
| Links | |
The Journal of Politics & Society is a biannual academic journal covering the social sciences published by the Helvidius Group, a nonprofit student organization at Columbia University. It was established in 1989 by Columbia University student Peter Tomassi as a magazine distributed to schools in the Ivy League and the US Congress. It was originally called the Columbia University Journal of Law and Public Policy and was intended to provide undergraduates a platform for meaningful political discourse.
The Guest Essay
The guest essay, the only segment written by non-undergraduates, contextualizes the research in the journal within the broader sociopolitical dialogue.
Past contributors include:
- Bill Clinton, former president of the United States
- Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General
- Christine Todd Whitman, former New Jersey Governor and EPA Administrator
- William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense
- Elizabeth Dole, former United States Senator
- Hillary Clinton, former first lady, United States Senator, and United States Secretary of State
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former United States Senator
- James D. Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank
- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
- Anthony Marx, President and CEO of the New York Public Library
- Kenneth Waltz, former political scientist and founder of neorealism in international relations theory
- Andrew J. Nathan, professor at Columbia University