BRIQ (Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly) Journal invites essay submissions for a special issue titled “Challenges to Multipolarity and Provocations from Ethnic Separatists and Religious Extremists”.
Developing nations nowadays are striving to enhance the multipolarity process, which facilitates the pursuit of their own developmental trajectories in opposition to hegemony. As a result of the multipolarity process, alliances like as BRICS, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are increasingly attracting attention in the developing world. Conversely, the Atlantic system is involved in endeavors to obstruct and hinder the emergence of multipolarity across multiple domains.
Diplomatic, economic, and political measures are being executed to discourage BRI’s potential and existing partners. In this context, efforts to broaden alliances such as AUKUS (Australia, UK, US) and QUAD (US, Australia, India, and Japan) to counter and encircle BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which are increasingly appealing to developing nations resisting hegemony, as well as hegemonic pressures within G20, APEC, ASEAN and other international global and regional organizations, and efforts focused on the extension of NATO into Asia (or the establishment of an Asian NATO) are significant.
Furthermore, From the Balkans to Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and from the Central Asian Republics and Pakistan to China, nations along the Belt and Road Initiative route are battling to maintain national unity and integrity against terrorist acts by religious extremists and ethnic separatists with external support.
BRIQ invites article submissions pertaining to the areas enumerated below (but not limited) within the aforementioned general framework:
- Challenges and threats to multipolarity
- The historical context and framework of ethnic and separatist movements along the BRI route
- The background of color revolution attempts and ethnic/sectarian conflicts in developing countries from the Balkans to China, and the connections to Atlanticist hegemony.
- The connections of ethnic and radical religious organizations with imperialism throughout history
- The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s efforts to combat ethnic and extremist religious terrorist organizations
We invite policymakers, specialists, and academics from fields including political economics, geopolitics, international relations, sociology, and history to contribute to our dossier.
Submissions of articles are permitted in both Turkish and English.
Submission Guidelines
BRIQ (Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly, https://briqjournal.com/en, ISSN: 2687-5896, E-ISSN: 2718-0581) is a scholarly journal of international politics, economy, and culture.
Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly (BRIQ) features a broad range of content, from academic articles to perspective piece book reviews, review essays, interviews, news reports, and feature articles.
The Editorial Board can issue calls for papers for special issues and invite authors to contribute manuscripts; however, it also welcomes unsolicited submissions.
All submissions must include two files (in Microsoft Word format). The first file must contain a brief biography (no more than 150 words) along with the authors’ contact and institutional information, an abstract limited to 250 words, and 5 keywords. The second file must consist entirely of the anonymized manuscript. Please send your submission as Microsoft Word attachments to briq@briqjournal.com. The sources of the images added by the author to the Word file should be indicated and it should be ensured that there is no copyright. Photographs and graphics should be sent in a separate file. The resolution of the photographs should be at least 720p, and the graphics should be sent in the format in which they were prepared.
Articles or other content that have been previously published or are under review by other journals will not be considered for publication.
BRIQ follows American Psychology Association style (7th edition, https://www.apastyle.org) and uses American English spelling.
BRIQ uses a double-blind review process for all academic articles. Academic articles should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words in length, including abstracts, notes, references, and all other content. Please supply a cover page that includes complete author information, and a fully anonymized manuscript that also contains an abstract (250 word limit) and 5 keywords. Book reviews should not exceed 1,000 words; review essays covering two or more works can be up to 3,000 words.
News reports consisting of brief analyses of news developments should not exceed 1,500 words; feature articles combining reporting and analysis can be up to 3,500 words.
Please contact the Editorial Board for interview proposals.