The Strategic Trade Review is the authoritative global resource for researchers, practitioners, students, policy-makers, and other stakeholders involved in export controls, sanctions, and other trade topics. The journal's mission is to:

1. Contribute to the definition, sound policy formation, and development of strategic trade;

2. Share and build peer reviewed knowledge and best practices among strategic trade practitioners;

3. Grant access to researchers and practitioners from all over the world to the latest strategic trade research and developments;

4. Provide the opportunity for a diverse set of authors to publish their work in a prestigious international publication.


Articles from the journal are frequently cited in other peer reviewed journals, trade publications, research and industry reports, magazines, and books.

The journal scope covers the following areas:

Export controls, sanctions, regimes, emerging technologies, compliance, trade/proliferation finance, proliferation networks, open source tools and techniques, foreign direct investment (FDI), visa vetting, legal instruments and frameworks, national implementation, intangible/technology transfers, transit-trans-shipment, implementation, risk assessment, patterns and trends, enforcement, prosecution, extraterritorial application, capacity-building outreach (strategy, methodology, lessons learned), comparative studies, historical analysis, human security, import control, end-user control issues, control lists, definitions, parcel services, jurisdiction, international cooperation, IT systems, customs and commodity identification, intelligence, regional cooperation, free trade zones, used items, corruption, trade control culture, networking in the field, industry outreach, cloud computing, comparative studies, and communication.

Topics not listed can be suggested to the Editor-in-Chief.