Spanning the gap between academic and policy approaches, JISEA offers policy analysts a place to pursue fundamental issues, and academic writers a venue for addressing policy. Major fields of concern include:

1. Energy Security
2. Energy Diplomacy
3. International Political Economy of Energy
4. Global Governance on Energy
5. Actors in Global Energy
6. International Relations

JISEA is committed to a broad range of intellectual perspectives. Articles promote new analytical approaches, iconoclastic interpretations, and previously overlooked perspectives. Its pages encourage novel contributions and outlooks, not particular methodologies or policy goals. Its geographical scope is worldwide and includes challenges in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Authors are encouraged to examine established priorities in innovative ways and to apply traditional methods to new problems.