Submissions for the CJPA

Submitting your work to the CJPA is a unique opportunity to get extensive feedback from fellow undergraduates who have undergone peer-review training.

Being published is a great way of showing academic ability, especially for those pursuing further studies at graduate level.

Most importantly, it is a way of sharing and showing your work to the wider student body.

Submitted articles must be an independent, original academic manuscripts between 3,500-10,000 words pertaining to political affairs.

Manuscripts must have an original title. We therefore do not accept manuscripts that are answers to questions set by supervisors. A manuscript with the title “Is the contemporary global order (its institutions, norms, and/or law) entirely a product of the West, or have non-Western states and actors also contributed to it, and how?” will thus be rejected. The manuscript may be accepted with largely the same content, if it instead is focused around the original title: “From Bandung to R2P: Non-western Contributions to Modern Sovereignty” and is less clearly a direct response to a set question.

The editorial term reserves full discretion in regard to the admissibility of a particular topic or manuscript. 

Manuscripts must be properly formatted with footnotes and references based on the Harvard (author date) reference system. For further details see the guide for sub-editors. If authors have formatted using alternate citation systems (Chicago, PA, MLA, etc), they will be required to reformat their references upon the manuscript’s acceptance.

Manuscripts that are under review or consideration by other journals will not be accepted for publication.

Manuscripts must be written by undergraduate students from any university. However, we are accepting manuscripts from students that have graduated in 2023.

Authors may submit only one manuscript for consideration.

‘Politics’ is to be understood in the broadest sense – including but not limited to comparative politics, international relations, political anthropology, sociology, history and political philosophy.

Please consult the articles section for an idea of previously published work.