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| Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | |
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| Title | Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies |
| Discipline | Area studies |
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies is a peer-reviewed academic periodical covering research on the Balkan Peninsula and the Near East, engaging with political, social, cultural, and historical developments. It publishes original research, review essays, and special issues that intersect with scholarship on the Ottoman Empire, the Cold War, post-communist transitions, and contemporary international relations. Contributions often address interactions among states, non-state actors, diasporas, and transnational movements across regions such as the Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, and the Caucasus.
The journal emerged amid scholarly debates following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the conflicts of the Yugoslav Wars, and the expansion of the European Union, situating itself alongside periodicals born in the late 20th century that responded to transformations after the Berlin Wall fall. Early issues engaged with legacies of the Ottoman Empire, comparative studies involving the Habsburg Monarchy, and analyses tied to the Treaty of Lausanne and the Treaty of Sèvres. Contributors have included researchers whose work resonates with topics explored in studies of the Balkan Wars, the Greek Civil War, the Turkish War of Independence, and the politics surrounding the Sykes–Picot Agreement.
The journal aims to bridge scholarship on the Balkans and the Near East, fostering dialogue between specialists on regions such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Israel. It encourages comparative approaches that draw on cases like the Crimean War, the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the Balkan League, and postwar reconstructions such as those following the Bosnian War and the Iraq War. The journal solicits work engaging with primary sources from archives linked to institutions like the Ottoman Archives, the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Archives, the Holy See Secret Archives, and national archives of Greece, Romania, and Serbia.
The editorial board typically includes scholars affiliated with universities and research centers such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Belgrade, Boğaziçi University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, University of Bucharest, University of Sarajevo, University of Ljubljana, Yale University, Princeton University, and institutes like the Oriental Institute (Prague), the Istanbul Bilgi University, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Peer review follows double-blind protocols common to journals associated with editorial practices seen in publications such as Middle East Journal, Slavonic and East European Review, and East European Politics and Societies. Board members and reviewers have research interests overlapping with figures and topics including Vuk Karadžić, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Young Turks, Kemalism, and debates around the Munich Agreement-era geopolitics.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in major services comparable to Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, Project MUSE, and bibliographic databases used by scholars of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and specialists citing proceedings from gatherings like the Balkans Peace Conference. Indexing ensures discoverability among researchers engaged with outputs by institutions such as the European Commission, the United Nations, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and research consortia linked to the Helsinki Commission.
Issues are released on a regular schedule parallel to formats used by regional studies journals published by academic presses and commercial houses in the tradition of publishers connected to Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. Access models have included subscription-based access and hybrid open-access options similar to policies adopted by periodicals responding to mandates from funders like the European Research Council and national research councils in Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria. Special issues have been coordinated with conferences hosted by organizations such as the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.
Scholars cite the journal in literature addressing transitional justice cases like those related to the Srebrenica massacre, scholarly debates on identity politics involving subjects such as Hellenism, Pan-Turkism, and Greater Bulgaria, and methodological discussions influenced by works on ethnography exemplified by research on Istanbul, Sarajevo, Skopje, and Tirana. Its impact is reflected in citation networks linking articles to monographs published by presses like Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Bloomsbury, and reference works including entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and national historiographies of Turkey, Greece, and Serbia.
Notable contributions have examined topics such as state formation after the Ottoman–Habsburg frontier adjustments, memory politics after the Breakup of Yugoslavia, diasporic networks connecting Istanbul and New York City, and comparative studies of legal transitions referencing the Nuremberg Trials and ad hoc tribunals. Special issues have focused on events and themes like the Annexation of Crimea, the Arab Spring, refugee flows tied to the Syrian Civil War, and EU enlargement processes following the Lisbon Treaty, often featuring roundtables with scholars affiliated with the European University Institute, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, and the International Crisis Group.
Category:Area studies journals