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The region of the Balkans and the Near East has assumed an important geo-political and global economic significance since the end of the Cold War. This territory, which includes the old and new nation-states of the former Ottoman Empire and Soviet Union, stands at the crossroads of an expanding West (NATO, the EU) and a re-emerging East (Russia, China, India). A focus on the Balkans and the Near East in a more globalized world must involve the re-examination of widely held assumptions, modern historical claims, and political, economic and security assertions concerning the nation-states of Southeastern Europe and the Near East. In this context, the journal seeks to address, in an historical and theoretically-informed manner, the complex historical, economic, political, diplomatic, cultural and security issues that confront the region, in the light of such important developments as the process of European integration, the evolution of NATO, and the more general changes in the international governance system after the end of the Cold War in Eurasia and the terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001. The journal encourages modern historical research, comparative approaches and a diversity of international relations and geo-political views on the region, as it seeks to construct an academic forum to bring together disparate scholarly perspectives. The Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, which expands and complements the research agenda and fruitful academic experience of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, is a strictly peer-reviewed quarterly publication.

Books for review should be addressed to (for books on the Near East/International Relations and History of the Near East) Bülent Aras, Department of International Relations, Isik University, Kumbaba Mevkii, 34980 Sile, Istanbul, Turkey, E-mail: abulent@isikun.edu.gr; (for books on Balkan History) Dejan Djokic, Department of History, Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, E-mail: d.djokic@gold.ac.uk; (For books on the Balkans/International Relations of the Balkans), Dejan Jovic, Department of Politics, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, E-mail: dejan.jovic@stir.ac.uk

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Footnotes and referencing. Use footnotes, not endnotes and give full reference of the work you have quoted in the first relevant footnote. References should be listed as follows:

Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism, Fontana, London 1997, p.343.

Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay, “An agenda for the next American President”, Mediterranean Quarterly, v.19, n.3, summer 2008

Ibid., p.104

Donald Sassoon, op.cit., p.233

Andre Gunder Frank, “US Economic overstretch and military/political imperial blowback”, in Bülent Aras and Gökhan Bacik (eds), September 11 and World Politics, Fatih University Press, Istanbul 2004, pp.119-127.

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