Eastern Europe has disappeared, first, in the reemergence of the distinction
between Central and Balkan Europe, and second, in the integration of the former to the
European Union.
Eastern Europe is dead, long live Southeastern Europe.
Transitology is out of fashion. What comes next? The Journal does not aim at
constructing a new single paradigm but to be a pioneer in contextualization and
conceptualization of South East European developments. New areas of investigations
open up: let move deeper into the region!
Three pillars build its theoretical universe:
 Pluridisciplinarity – political science, history, sociology, law,
anthropology, cultural studies;
 Interdisciplinarity – issues like nationalism, ethnicity, human rights do
not belong to any particular discipline and need the contribution of several
of them;
 Comparative approach often replaces verification in social sciences and
gives a theoretical background for “measuring” the uniqueness or
commonness of the phenomena.
The journal has interest in both:
 Results of theoretical research;
 Informed policy debate, implications of research for policy innovation,
analysis of the outcome of previous initiatives.
The content contains the following sections:
 Introduction by the guest editor for analyzing the state of the art and the
contribution of the current volume. It assures the coherence and reinforces
the comparative perspective (8000-9000 words);
 Articles of 7.500-9.000 words on variety of topics. Every article is
accompanied by a summary and key words;
 Forum:
o Scholarly interview in dept of a political personality, critically
evaluated by another scholar (2.500-4.000 words);
 Debate:
o Major review essay – two/three separate reviews of the same book
and an author’s reply (2.500-4.000 words);
 Reviews of books published in the languages of South Eastern Europe
(800-1.000 words);4
“Southeastern Europe” is a refereed journal. Every article is evaluated by two
referees.