(Re) Introducing the Orbis Journal of World Affairs

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) are pleased to introduce orbisjournal.org, the new home of the Orbis Journal of World Affairs. 

 

First published in 1957, Orbis is a forum for policymakers, scholars, and the informed public to publish scholarly articles focused on geopolitics, foreign affairs, and global security. Over half a century later, the FPRI-Nunn School collaboration continues the mission of the journal’s first editor, Robert Strausz-Hupé. Hupé believed that the contours of global affairs would be shaped both by geopolitical competition and technological change. 

 

Orbisjournal.org relaunches this legacy publication in an open access format that features both peer-reviewed scholarly research and commentary from policymakers and practitioners. The partnership between FPRI and the Nunn School, combining a blend of rigorous academic scholarship with timely policy insight, ensures that Orbis will continue to deliver informative and insightful articles about foreign policy, national security, and geopolitics, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies are reshaping these fields.

 

• Open access to all new Orbis articles and archives (volumes 37-68)
• Bimonthly episodes of Shifting Ground, the journal’s flagship podcast
• Monthly commentaries with leading policymakers and practitioners
• Peer reviewed articles (coming in Fall 2026)
• Virtual events with journal contributors
• 4 quarterly issues
• Monthly Orbis In Brief newsletter

Editorial Team 

• Dr. Nikolas Gvosdev, Senior Fellow, FPRI, Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair, US Naval War College
• Dr. Lawrence Rubin, co-director of the Georgia Tech DC Program: Pathways to Policy, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.

• Dr. Rachel Whitlark, associate professor of international affairs, Georgia Tech.

• Eric Koob, Program and Operations Manager, Center for Research on International Strategy and Policy, Georgia Tech. 
• Natalia Kopytnik, Director of Communications, FPRI.