About the Journal

 “International Relations and International Law Journal” was founded in 1992. The founder and publisher of the journal is Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. The journal has a designed and approved cover and title pages, indicating the university, issue output data, ISSN, eISSN, editorial board, editorial policy, publication ethics and website. The Journal is published 4 times a year.

Journal articles are registered in the CrossRef database and each author's article must be assigned DOI – a digital object identifier, which is used to provide citations, links, and access to electronic documents.

The journal is indexed by Kazakhstani Citation Database (KazCD) of JSC “National Center for State Scientific and Technical Expertise” (NCSSTE).

The journal is also available in the Scientific electronic library elibrary.ru in open access for readers and included in the analytical database “Russian Science Citation Index” (RSCI).

The journal’s editorial board includes leading scientists from Kazakhstan and abroad.

The journal follows a policy of information openness and accessibility of authors' publications, articles are published on the journal website in three languages with full-text access.

  • Goals and objectives of the journal

The goal of the journal is to disseminate scientific information and attract new authors. The journal initiates discussions on problematic issues of theory and practice in the fields of international relations, international law, regional studies, world economy, juridical and historical sciences.

The objectives of the journal:

- to accept original high-quality research articles that have not previously been published or submitted for publication in another journal.

- to follow requirements of legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in relation to copyright and provisions on publication ethics generally accepted in world practice.

- to focus on coverage of publications in the following subject areas: international relations, international law, regional studies, world economy, juridical and historical sciences.

- to provide results of theoretical and applied research on topical issues in humanities and social sciences with international political, legal and methodological focus.

- to provide reviews of the latest literature.

  • Subject areas

The journal covers a wide range of research results on international relations and international law, publishes articles on the subject areas of the journal, expert comments from participants in the global political process, original educational and methodological developments, and recent research reviews on these issues. The  subject areas of the journal are as follows:

  • Current problems of international relations and foreign policy;
  • Current issues of global and regional security;
  • International and national law issues;
  • Global political process;
  • Current problems of world economy and international regionalism;
  • Current problems of modern linguistics and translation

         Regular headlines in the journal: “Global and regional processes”, “International relations, diplomacy and foreign policy”, “Research in Central Asia”, “Issues of International law”, “Issues of linguistics and translation”.

* The author (s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for the publication in accordance with the approved price list for publication in scientific journals of Al-Farabi KazNU. According to the approved price list, payment for the publication of an article is 2000 tenge per page.

In exceptional cases, in the presence of other sources of funding for the journal series, authors may be fully or partially exempt from payment for the publication of the article. A receipt for payment for publication in pdf format is sent by the author (s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.