Submit an Article to the Institute for Asian Crime and Security
The Institute for Asian Crime and Security Brief focuses on current events and policy analysis. We have a broad scope and cover a wide range of topics as long as they are related to Taiwan policy.
The Institute for Asian Crime and Security (IACS) welcomes contributions from writers, experts, thought leaders, scholars, and investigative journalists who are looking to provide insightful analysis on world politics and national security issues. Please send all submissions to inquiry.iacs@gmail.com.
In your email, please include a brief bio highlighting your credentials. We ask that you paste the article text in the body of an email, and that embedded URLs be used sparingly. While we do not provide financial compensation, we’ll be happy to include a link of your choice when appropriate.
We ask that you keep your article between 800 and 1,500 words. If your article is longer than that, we are happy to publish it as a single, in-depth story or break it up into a series of several pieces, it’s up to you.
If you have an idea for an original article that you would like to pitch, welcome to let us know by sending us an email.
All the submissions will be going through a single-blind peer review process. Once the article is published, it will be protected and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Please ensure your submission adheres to the following guidelines:
➡ All submissions must be the writer’s original work (articles may be co-authored) and must not have been published anywhere else
➡ For online citations, please insert hyperlinks directly in the text. If you are citing from journal articles, books, and other printed publications, follow the Chicago Style for endnotes.
➡ For GTI-specific writing style, please refer to our Publication Style Guide.
➡ At the end of each article, authors are expected to include The Main Point, summarising the article’s key takeaway in one or two sentences.
➡ Articles are expected to be fact-based and thoroughly cited.
➡ Selected articles may be translated into Mandarin-Chinese and shared with our partners (i.e., 今周刊) for publication on their platforms.
➡ When submitting, kindly provide your affiliation and a brief biography (2–3 lines).
You will be contacted within 10 working days from the date of final submission if your article is selected for publication. As for pitches for a GTB topic, a staff member will get back to you as soon as possible.
If you are interested or know someone who would be interested in contributing to our publication, please submit your article as a Word document — rather than a PDF — to submission@theiacs.org with the subject line “[Submission] – Author name – Article name”. Similarly, please submit your pitches to submission@theiacs.org with the subject line “[Pitch] – Author name”.