Euxeinos
Euxeinos is an English-language online scientific journal . The full name is “Euxeinos. Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region ". The magazine has been published independently by the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (HSG-GCE) at the University of St. Gallen , Switzerland, since 2011 . The name 'Euxeinos' is derived from the Greek word 'Pontos Euxeinos'. This stands for the Black Sea and means something like "the hospitable sea".
Scientific articles on political, cultural, economic and social processes in the Black Sea region appear in Euxeinos . These include the countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. The individual issues offer interdisciplinary articles , analyzes and expert opinions on key topics, written by international experts. The editors assess the texts in an internal review process (editor reviewed), and each issue is supervised by a guest editor. The magazine appears four to six times a year. The editions or individual articles can be downloaded freely (open access) from the HSG-GCE website.
Topics covered
The following problems can be identified in the selection of topics in the previous Euxeinos editions:
- Critical public debate with countries in the Black Sea region of Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine
- Verifying national identities by challenging underlying stereotypes
- Concerns of regionalism
- Phenomena of pop culture in communist and post-communist countries, use of culture as a soft power instrument in foreign policy, international politics
- Security issues in the Black Sea region
- Tensions between state and civic engagement, types of activism and protest culture
- The democratization potential of new media, digital reporting , citizen journalism and confirmation practice
- Dilemmas of former socialist countries: ideological clashes between democracy and totalitarianism, civil society against police state, market economy against planned economy
- The communist legacy
- Historical reviews, critical review of history on a broad basis of new archival finds and discoveries
- Geopolitical planning
Previous editions
- No. 1 - 08/2011: Romania and the Holocaust: Delicate Reappraisal of a Fateful Past. Ed. by Daniel Ursprung.
- No. 2 - 10/2011: Negotiating “Nation” and “Society”: The Public Sphere in Post-Communist Bulgaria. Ed. by Boyan Znepolski.
- No. 3 - 01/2012: Romanian Communism between Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Scientific Debate. Ed. by Daniel Ursprung.
- No. 4 - 02/2012: Internet and Politics in Russia. Ed. by Orlin Spassov.
- No. 5 - 04/2012: Citizenship, Activism and Mobilization: Internet Politics in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. Ed. by Orlin Spassov.
- No. 6 - 07/2012: The Complexities of Black Sea Regional Security. Ed. by Dimitrios Triantaphyllou
- No. 7 - 09/2012: Corruption and Informal Practices in Russia. Ed. by Ulrich Schmid.
- No. 8 - 11/2012: Religion and Society in Contemporary Bulgaria. Ed. by Stefan Kube.
- No. 9 - 03/2013: Statehood, Religion and Strategic Europeanization in the Southern Caucasus. Ed. by Mariam Parsadanishvili, Michael Dobbins.
- No. 10 - 05/2013: Strategic Depth through Soft Power: The Domestic Production and International Projection of Turkish Culture. Ed. by Mathieu Rousselin.
- No. 11 - 11/2013: Pop Culture in Romania and Bulgaria since the 1960’s . Ed. by Carmen Scheide .
- No. 12 - 12/2013: Sochi and the 2014 Olympics: Game Over? Ed. by Martin Müller.
- No. 13 - 03/2014: The EuroMaidan in Ukraine, November 2013 till February 2014. Ed. by Ulrich Schmid, Carmen Scheide.
- No. 14 - 2014: Nations, Nation-States, Trade and Politics in the Black Sea. Ed. by Constantin Ardeleanu, “The Lower Danube” University of Galaţi.
- No. 15-16 - 2014: Moldova: A Borderland's Fluid History. Ed. by Diana Dumitru and Petru Negura.
- No. 17 - 2015: Religion and Political Crisis in Ukraine. Ed. by Catherine Wanner.
- No. 18 - 2015: Energy and Integration in the Black Sea Region. Ed. by Jonas Grät.
- No. 19-20 - 2015: The German Minority in Romania. Ed. by Daniel Ursprung.
- No. 21 - 2016: Challenges of the EU Eastern Enlargement. Ed. by Carmen Scheide.
Latest issue
- No. 22 - 2017: Looking Beyond the Public Discourses on Migration: Experiences of Bulgarians and Romanins in the UK. Ed. by Polina Manolova
Creative Commons license
Euxeinos is subject to an international Creative Commons License 4.0. This means that the material published in Euxeinos may only be used for non-commercial purposes - provided that the authorship is named. In the event of a change, the edited version may not be distributed, or only after consultation with the editorial staff.
Free access: Open Access
Euxeinos follows the guidelines of the Open Access policy issued by the Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). This means that the contributions in the Euxeinos are free, digitally, immediately and online available and use a copyright that secures the rights of the authors and at the same time does not hinder their use in science and teaching.