Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics

Abstract In this introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary special issue of Global Environmental Politics (GEP), we reflect on and celebrate the first 100 issues of the journal. To that end, we collected data on the authors who submit their manuscripts to GEP, those who publish in GEP, and the many scholars who review for GEP. Using this information, we evaluate trends over time, particularly in terms of collaboration and diversity. We find that coauthorship has become much more common in recent years, with many early-career scholars publishing in teams. Gender balance among authors has improved considerably over the last quarter century, and people who engage with the journal are diverse in the theoretical and methodological approaches they bring to bear on global environmental politics. However, as most authors work at universities in North America and Europe, geographic diversity remains low, resulting in a lack of representation from the Global South. We end by introducing the articles included in this twenty-fifth anniversary special issue, all of which look to the journal’s past to derive lessons for our collective future.