All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and editorial transparency. The journal follows the principles and best practices set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and expects all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher, to act in accordance with these ethical standards.
All submitted manuscripts are evaluated solely on the basis of their academic quality, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal’s aims and scope, and contribution to the field. Manuscripts are assessed without regard to the authors’ race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, political views, seniority, or institutional affiliation.
Editorial Responsibilities
The editors of All Azimuth are responsible for ensuring a fair, independent, and confidential evaluation process. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are treated as confidential documents until publication. Information about a submitted manuscript is not shared with anyone other than the corresponding author, editors, reviewers, and other individuals directly involved in the editorial process.
Editors must not use unpublished material from submitted manuscripts for their own research or personal benefit. If a manuscript is rejected or withdrawn, the journal will not use the work for any purpose without the author’s explicit permission.
The editors are responsible for selecting appropriate reviewers and making editorial decisions based on the scholarly merit of the manuscript and the reviewers’ reports. In cases where reviewer reports are contradictory, insufficient, or inconclusive, the editors may seek additional review. The final decision regarding publication rests with the editorial team and the Editorial Board.
Editors are also responsible for taking appropriate action when ethical concerns arise, including suspected plagiarism, duplicate submission, data fabrication, authorship disputes, conflicts of interest, or other forms of publication misconduct. When necessary, the journal may issue corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, or retractions in accordance with international publication ethics standards.
Peer Review Process
All Azimuth applies a double-blind peer review process. Manuscripts that pass the initial editorial screening are evaluated by at least two independent reviewers. The identities of both authors and reviewers are kept confidential throughout the review process.
The purpose of peer review is to assist the editors in making informed publication decisions and to help authors improve the quality of their work. Reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, and academically grounded evaluations. Personal criticism of authors is not acceptable.
Reviewers must treat all manuscripts and related materials as confidential. They may not share, discuss, reproduce, or use any part of a manuscript under review for personal, professional, or institutional advantage. Reviewers who feel unqualified to evaluate a manuscript, who cannot complete the review within the requested time, or who have a conflict of interest must inform the editors and decline the review invitation.
Author Responsibilities
Authors submitting manuscripts to All Azimuth must ensure that their work is original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal, book, or publication venue at the same time. Simultaneous submission of the same or substantially similar work to more than one publication is considered unethical and will result in rejection.
Authors are responsible for presenting their research accurately and transparently. All sources used in the manuscript must be properly cited. Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, copyright infringement, and inappropriate authorship practices are unacceptable.
All individuals listed as authors must have made a substantial academic contribution to the manuscript. Contributions may include the conception and design of the research, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of findings, drafting of the manuscript, or critical revision of the text. Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the manuscript.
Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, personal, or professional relationships that may create a conflict of interest or appear to influence the research, analysis, interpretation, or publication process. Sources of funding, if any, must also be clearly stated.
If authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work, they must promptly inform the editors and cooperate with the journal in issuing a correction, clarification, or retraction when necessary.
Originality, Plagiarism, and Duplicate Submission
All Azimuth expects submitted manuscripts to be entirely original. The journal does not consider manuscripts that have already been published elsewhere, including as full-text conference proceedings, or manuscripts that are currently under review by another publication.
Manuscripts involving plagiarism, inappropriate textual overlap, duplicate publication, salami publication, data manipulation, fraudulent authorship, denied authorship, or serious copyright violations will be rejected. If such misconduct is detected after publication, the journal reserves the right to take appropriate corrective action, including correction or retraction.
Research Ethics
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their research complies with accepted ethical standards. Research involving human participants, including interviews, surveys, focus groups, experiments, observations, or other forms of qualitative or quantitative data collection, must be conducted in accordance with relevant ethical guidelines and institutional requirements.
Where required, authors must obtain ethics committee approval before conducting the research and must state this approval in the manuscript. Authors must also indicate that informed consent was obtained from participants when applicable.
Research participants must be informed about the purpose, methods, possible uses, and potential risks of the research. Participation must be voluntary and free from coercion. The privacy, dignity, autonomy, and confidentiality of participants must be protected at all stages of the research process.
If the study uses personal data, copyrighted materials, photographs, questionnaires, scales, archival materials, or other protected content, authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions and for complying with relevant legal and ethical requirements.
Conflicts of Interest
All authors, editors, and reviewers must disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest may arise from financial relationships, institutional affiliations, personal relationships, academic competition, political commitments, or any other circumstance that could influence, or appear to influence, the evaluation or publication of a manuscript.
Reviewers must decline to evaluate manuscripts where they have a conflict of interest with the authors, institutions, research funders, or subject matter. Editors must also recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where their impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
Corrections, Retractions, and Publication Misconduct
All Azimuth is committed to preserving the integrity of the scholarly record. When errors, inaccuracies, or ethical concerns are identified in a published article, the journal will review the matter carefully and take appropriate action.
Depending on the nature and seriousness of the issue, the journal may publish a correction, clarification, expression of concern, or retraction. Cases of suspected publication misconduct may be handled in accordance with COPE guidelines.
Resubmission of Rejected Manuscripts
Authors may resubmit a previously rejected manuscript only if it has been substantially revised in light of the editorial decision and reviewer comments. A resubmitted manuscript will be treated as a new submission. Manuscripts that do not demonstrate sufficient revision may be returned to the authors without further review.
Open Access and Publication Fees
All Azimuth is a diamond open access journal. Articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication. The journal does not charge authors any submission fees, article processing charges, or publication fees.
Publication Guidelines
All Azimuth follows a double-blind peer review process. Although processing times may vary, most manuscripts are processed by the editorial staff within two weeks, by which time the editors decide if an article is to be rejected or merits the review process. Each round of reviews may take up to 6 weeks. Manuscripts need two affirmative reviews before they can be considered for publication. Pending the suggestions by the reviewers, an article may be accepted, rejected, or require revisions. In the last case, the author(s) will be given the opportunity to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript based on, and addressing, the reviewers’ comments. This process is repeated until a manuscript is decisively accepted or rejected. In the case of an inconclusive review process, the editorial board may contact additional reviewers.
Only submissions that are submitted through the Journal’s online submission form will be considered for publication.
All Azimuth is an open access journal. Once accepted for publication, manuscripts will be made available online. There are no publishing fees.
Please see the Author Guidelines for more information on preparing manuscript.
