Journal Guide

East European Politics and Societies (EEPS), published quarterly, covers issues in Eastern Europe from social, political, and humanities perspectives. The journal focuses on expanding readers' understanding of past events and current developments in countries from Greece to the Baltics. EEPS maintains a tradition of imaginative and erudite vision, uniting the cutting-edge social research and political analysis of leading area specialists, historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists from around the world.

Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies ( EALCS) is a new international peer-reviewed journal which offers a distinctive, integrated forum for scholarship on the literature, culture and arts of the Eastern Africa region and their widespread influence. The arts and culture have played an instrumental role in the post-colonial project, and indeed in the forging of twenty-first century identities and realities, where they have actively engaged with ideas from other fields including economics, politics, history, and religion. This dynamic interface is explored in the journal. Exceptional creative work from and about the region is also considered for publication. The journal invites submissions of research articles, review essays, roundtable debates, interviews, creative work, book reviews and conference alerts.

Manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and detailed Instructions for Authors can be found here.  

EEC is the only periodical dealing with countryside change in Central and Eastern Europe (countries which underwent a fundamental system transformation after 1989, abandoning socialism for a democratic system based on the free market economy). It presents the process of change in the legislative, organizational, economic, social areas, predicted consequences of these changes. Most of texts are about socio-economic, political, cultural phenomena in the lives rural communities undergoing change.

Eastern European Economics publishes original research on the newly emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, with coverage of the ongoing processes of transition to market economics in different countries, their integration into the broader European and global economies, and the ramifications of the 2008-9 financial crisis. An introduction by the journal's editor adds context and expert insights on the articles presented in each issue."Articles ranging from 10 to 20 pages in length are authored by renowned scholars from various Eastern European countries and are well documented... in excellent English, making them interesting and enlightening to those professionally concerned with this field. Highly recommended for acquisitions by academic and special libraries with programs covering Eastern European economics and business.

Studies in Eastern European Cinema provides a platform for vigorous debate for the world-wide community of Eastern European film scholars. The scope of the journal covers the cinemas of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, just as well as cinemas of Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia as now non-existent states with the veritable cinematic tradition.

Eastern European Screen Studies provides the world-wide community of Eastern European film and media scholars with a platform for debate. The journal covers screen cultures of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine, just as well as cinemas of Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Yugoslavia as now non-existent states with historic cinematic tradition. It encourages authors to cover production, consumption and textual characteristics of films and other forms of the moving image and locate the material in national, as well as transnational perspectives, reflecting the convergence of various trends in world cinema, such as festivalization and the emergence of new distribution platforms that simultaneously re-establish and transcend geopolitical and cultural borders.

The journal editors are keen to publish articles on all types of moving image, both arthouse and popular films, television programmes and music videos, films produced for theatrical release, as well as amateur films and those for educational, industrial and advertising purposes.

Eastern European Screen Studies is edited by a board of experienced, internationally recognised experts in the field. The journal publishes 3 issues per year. Each year one or two special issues are published, devoted to phenomena which are under-researched in the existing literature. We are open to suggestions for specific themes from potential guest editors.

All papers submitted to Eastern European Screen Studies undergo initial editorial screening. Once deemed suitable, research articles are sent out for rigorous double-anonymized peer review by at least two independent referees. Instructions for Authors can be found here.