The Journal of International Affairs is a biannual academic journal covering foreign affairs. It is edited by graduate students at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. It was established in 1947 as a nonprofit organization. The editor-in-chief is Se Lin "Sharon" Joh.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: • Harrison Parker, 1947–1948 • John Lippmann, 1948–1949 • Richard Rowson, 1950–1951 • Richard Newman, 1951–1952 • Roger Ross, 1952–1953 • Albert Mark, 1953–1954 • Richard Cornell, 1954–1955 • Richard Palmer, 1955–1956 • John Kruse, 1956–1957 • R. Laurence Garufi, 1957–1958 • Richard Dodson, 1958–1959 • Aurelius Fernandez, 1959–1960 • Edward Greathead, 1960–1961 • Bruce Nelan, 1961–1962 • Everett Kelsey, 1962–4963 • Bernard Klem, 1963–1964 • Aaron Klieman, 1964–1965 • Robert Matthews, 1966–1967 • John Farrell, 1967–1968 • John Quitter, 1968–1969 • John Rounsaville, 1969–1970 • Paul Shapiro, 1970–1971 • David Sullivan, 1971–1972 • James Grant, 1972–1973 • Brian Connelly, 1973–1974 • Gregg Rubinstein, 1974–1975 • Marc Wall, 1975 • Mary-Ellen Pignatelli, 1975–1976 • Douglas Cardon, 1976 • Alan Buckley, 1976–1977 • Stephen Douglas, 1977–1978 • David Chaffetz, 1978–1979 • Lesley Rimmel, 1980–1981 • Martin Marris, 1981–1982 • Joshua Katz, 1982–1983 • Lauren Kelley, 1984 • Roger Baumann, 1985 • James Ryan, 1986 • Paul Walting, 1987 • William Rogers, 1988 • Martin Malin, 1989 • Julie Rasmussen, 1990 • Gregory White, 1991 • Matthew Tiedemann, 1992 • Melissa Sawin, 1992–1993 • Sonali Weerackody, 1993–1994 • M. Kathleen Tedesco, 1994–1995 • Michael Pedroni, 1996–1997 • Ana Cutter, 1997–1998 • S. Austin Merrill, 1999–2000 • Robert A. Schupp, 1999–2000 • Deirdre Brennan, 2000–2001 • Nancy van Itallie, 2001–2002 • Priscilla Ryan, 2002–2003 • Genevieve Sangudi, 2003–2004 • Hamilton Boardman, 2004–2005 • Moran Banai, 2005–2006 • Daniel Doktori, 2006–2007 • Saul Acosta Gomez, 2007–2008 • Eugene Sokoloff, 2008–2009 • Gerald Stang, 2009–2010 • Rikha Sharma Rani, 2010–2011 • Paul Fraioli, 2011–2012 • Jon Grosh, 2012–2013 • Andrew Zsoldos, 2013–2014 • Bryan Griffin, 2014–2015 • Eliza Keller, 2015–2016 • David Kampf, 2016–2017 • Zinnia Bukhari, 2017–2018 • Zachary Hanson, 2018–2019 • John Sakellariadis, 2019–2020 • Jiwon Ma, 2020–2021 • Samir Kumar, 2021 • Elizabeth Hudler, 2022–2023 • Patrick Fitz, 2023–2024 • Se Lin "Sharon" Joh, 2024–present