About

The Orbis Journal of World Affairs is a joint initiative of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). 

First published in 1957, Orbis was conceived as a forum for policymakers, scholars, and the informed public to publish scholarly articles focused on geopolitics, foreign affairs, and global security. The journal has featured work by notable authors such as Ian Brzezinski, Ash Carter, Elbridge Colby, William R. Van Cleave, Robert Kaplan, Albert Wohlstetter, and Dov Zakheim, and has been a critical resource for policymakers and professors for more than five decades.

Over half a century later, the FPRI-Nunn School collaboration continues the mission of the journal’s first editor, Robert Strausz-Hupé. He believed that the contours of global affairs would be shaped both by geopolitical competition and technological change. Orbis delivers informative and insightful articles and podcasts about foreign policy, national security, and geopolitics, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies are reshaping these fields.