Securitas Imperii: Journal for the Study of Modern Dictatorships is a peer-reviewed journal publishing original studies dealing with the history of modern dictatorships in the 20th century. The core of its content consists of studies in history, relevant social sciences, and subsequently, reviews, interviews, documents, discussions, reports. Securitas Imperii is published twice a year by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Siwiecova 2, Prague 3, 130 00; IČ 74112779) since 2009 from issue 15. The magazine does not publish ads and is funded from the publisher’s budget.
Securitas Imperii is indexed in ERIH, CEEOL, Crossref.
ISSN: 1804-1612
e-ISSN: 2787-9348
Aims and Scope
Securitas Imperii is a peer-reviewed periodical publishing original studies dealing with the history of modern dictatorships in the 20th century. The core of its content consists of studies in history, relevant social sciences, and subsequently, reviews, interviews, documents, discussions, reports. Securitas Imperii is published twice a year by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Siwiecova 2, Praha 3, 130 00; IČ 74112779) since 2009 from issue 15. The magazine does not publish ads and is funded from the publisher’s budget.
The editors of the magazine accept contributions devoted to studying long-term processes and key events of modern dictatorships. Studies dealing with various forms of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, especially Nazi and Communist, are especially welcome. A common feature of modern dictatorships is the various mechanisms of control, i.e. the various forms of power in a society that needs to be analysed in all political, social or cultural contexts. The journal is based on the assumption that historical memory and experience with modern dictatorships cannot be examined within one state’s borders. Thus, Securitas Imperii is intended not only for the Czech but also for the world professional public. Securitas Imperii is an international platform for an open, multi-perspective and interdisciplinary dialogue on society, culture, politics, the economy, and everyday lives in modern dictatorships.
The following sub-topics fall under this general intention:
- analysis of the power takeover by modern dictatorships, including broader cultural and social contexts
- the repressive components functioning of modern dictatorships, including an analysis of their impact’s broader social context
- history of all resistance forms and dissent to dictatorships
- principles of governing and governments legitimacy in modern dictatorships
- examining the experience of all kinds of actors of modern dictatorships (members of the ruling class, the opposition, broad social classes, etc.)
- comparisons across regimes within the framework of one or more states
- searching for continuities and discontinuities in the transition between individual political regimes
- structures and transformations of power in modern dictatorships
- historical memory and reflections on modern dictatorships
- totalitarian and authoritarian tendencies and elements in democratic regimes, including the contemporary ones
Open Access Policy
Open access is a model of scholarly communication that enables open access to scientific information across disciplines. It provides online publication of complete scientific results accessible to anyone. The main benefits of this model are to speed up the exchange of the latest scientific findings, to increase their availability and also to increase the visibility of these findings, thereby expanding the readership. The journal Securitas Imperii, published by the research organisation Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, supports the policy of open access.
Source: https://openaccess.cz/
Sections
The content of the magazine consists of two main parts:
- peer-reviewed part – texts that have the character of a scientific study. These are current, original, authorial, not yet published and have all the requisites required by default for a scientific text (references to sources, note apparatus, citation usage). The texts go through an anonymous review process.
- Including texts within the category
- Study
- Review articles
- Including texts within the category
non-peer-reviewed part – reviews, reports from the field events (conferences, seminars, workshops, discoveries…) and discussions – approved by the editor-in-chief.
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- Including texts within the category
- Reviews
- Discussions
- Reports
- Documents
- Interviews
- Including texts within the category
The text’s final inclusion in either the peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed part of the journal is decided based on reviews, exclusively by the editorial board and the editor-in-chief.