Currently in its ninth year of publication, the Journal has established itself as a core academic reference for the regions of the Black Sea and Southeast Europe. All articles published in the JSEEBSS undergo rigorous peer-review and the Journal is included in the ISI Social Science Citation Index since 2007.

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Latest Issue

Volume 11 Number 1 February 2011

The latest issue of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 11, February 2011 offers a critical view on the development and the role of civil society in Turkey; the role of the Turkish Justice and Development party in the EU negotiation process, as well as an article on Turkey’s role in the Nabucco pipeline negotiations . The issue also includes a study on a revised EU strategy regarding Bosnia-Herzegovina and a review essay on recent criticisms and claims on Greece and the Macedonian question.

The book review section includes reviews on Christopher Cviic’s and Peter Sanfey’s volume “In Search of the Balkan Recovery. The Political and Economic Reemergence of South-Eastern Europe”; Edoardo Ongaro,’s “Public Management Reform and Modernization. Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain”; Lara J. Nettelfield,’s “Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal’s Impact in a Postwar State,” James Headley,’s “Russia and the Balkans: Foreign Policy from Yeltsin to Putine” as well as a review on the volume “Ottoman Diplomatic Documents on the “Eastern Question”. The Cretan Uprising 1866-69” edited by Sinan Kuneralp.

Previous Issues

Volume 10 Number 4 December 2010

The latest issue of the Journal of Southeastern European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 10, December 2010 offers a critical insight on foreign policy and security issues in Southeast Europe; early preferences of political parties in the EU regarding Turkey’s accession; the economic consequences of the Christofias-Talat/Eroglu plan in Cyprus; Ukraine’s foreign policy between Russia and the West; Security through trust-building in the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. The issue also includes a study on missing persons and the case of reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and an article on regulatory abdication as pubic policy in the relation between governments and credit rating agencies.

The book review section includes reviews on James E. Miller’s volume “The United States and the making of modern Greece: history and power 1950–1974”; Ahmet T. Kuru’s “Secularism and state policies toward religion: the United States, France, and Turkey”; Vedran Dzihic’s “Ethnopolitics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: State and society in crisis,” and Milica Uvalic’s “Serbia’s transition: Towards a better future”.

Volume 9 Number 3 September 2009

Special Issue on The Security Context in the Black Sea Region

Our latest Special Issue of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (V9N3) focuses on The Security Context in the Black Sea Region. Edited by Dimitris Triantaphyllou and with contributions by Oksana Antonenko, Mustafa Aydin, Nadia Arbatova, Stephen Larrabee, Andrew Wilson and Nicu Popescu, Sabine Fischer, Sergey Glebov, Jeffery Simon, and Yannis Tsantoulis, this special issue attempts to present the realities of where the region stands today and what it could conceivably need to do to survive the precarious nature of its security environment.

Volume 9 Number 1&2 March 2009

In this double issue of the JSEEBSS, articles critically analyse emergent regional cooperation in Southeast Europe; Bosnia’s ‘ambivalent peace’ between partition and pluralism; whether the ICTY has achieved its objectives; the political economy of Greek-Turkish relations; the economic impact of migration on Greece; and the role of environmental NGOs in Spain and Romania. The issue also includes an anthropological study of gender and collective shame in Albanian society and a case study on the added value of EU cohesion policy in the Greek periphery of Epirus. In addition, a Special Focus Section on Kosovo explores the politics and geopolitics of Kosovo’s status and the critical junctures that led to Kosovo’s declaration of independence as well as Kosovo as a precedent for the cases of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Book Review section includes reviews on Mark Mazower’s edited volume on Networks of Power in Modern Greece: Essays in Honour of John Campbell, Kevin Featherstone and Dimitri Papadimitriou’s The Limits of Europeanisation – Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece, Sigrid Metz-Gockel et al’s edited volume on Migration and Mobility in an Enlarged Europe: A Gender Perspective, and Elkhan Nuriyev’s The South Caucasus at the Crossroads: Conflicts, Caspian Oil and Great Power Politics.

Volume 8 Number 4 December 2008

Special Issue: Europe’s Unfinished Transitions: The Convergence-Divergence Debate Revisited / Guest Editor: George Georgiadis

The Journal’s 2009 Special Issue was edited by George Georgiadis and focused on “Europe’s unfinished transitions: The convergence-divergence debate revisited” (V8N4, December 2008). The papers published in this Special Issue offer a comprehensive look and a broader comparative perspective of the transition in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe, and argue that at present, EU policies towards its periphery are path-dependent and largely reflect policy choices made in the critical years between 1989-1993.

Moreover, only partial convergence has been promoted because EU policies have been geographically and geopolitically differentiated from the very beginning of the transition process. Contributions in this Special Issue concentrate on the changing nature of EU conditionality; the role of the European Agency for Reconstruction; the stability of political institutions through the examination of cross-national democracy and governance indicators; the reform of the penal system in Albania, Ukraine’s transformation and the ENP; and the role of external determinants as the explanatory variables of convergence or the lack thereof.

Volume 8 Number 3 September 2008

Challenges facing public administration reform in Romania; a historical analysis on violence in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans; a reconceptualisation of the Caucasus; and a set of papers on trade and economic relations between Greece and the fYR Macedonia were some of the issues explored in this issue of the Journal.

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