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The Western Balkans Policy Review
A Scholarly Journal


The Western Balkans Policy Review (WBP Review) is a semi-annual, peer-reviewed, journal providing an excellent publishing opportunity for young scholars (especially graduate students in MA or PhD programs and recent post graduates) and other professionals, including well-established academics with an interest in the Western Balkans.

The WBP Review is an undertaking of the Kosovo Public Policy Center. It is the Center's belief that such a publication would enrich the debate over the Western Balkans policy issues. A journal of this kind can also take the debate among Western Balkans and between them and other scholars further. Academic inquiry and research are important components of well-designed and well-implemented policies. 

Thus, the key objective of the WBP Review is to provide a credible and comprehensive source of articles in the field of Western Balkans public policies. Contributions may include analytical, theoretical, and methodological articles.

The journal does not favor one over another approach, but rather encourages the use of appropriate social science approaches for the given topic or paper. Qualitative and quantitative approaches are equally considered.  The WBP Review does not define public policy in one particular way -- instead, it urges potential authors to consider a wide range of important policy discussions, arguments, practices, methodologies, and theories, in areas including, but necessarily limited to the following:

• National public policy developments, processes, and practices in Western Balkans and elsewhere
• Comparative studies in public policy within Western Balkans and Europe
• Public policy development in Western Balkans states vis-à-vis the EU integration process
• Public policy interface between economic development and overall development of nation-states
• Influence, activities, and participation of non-state actors in the public policy processes
• Ethnicity, social inclusion, national identity and public policy development and implementation
• Good governance, human rights, and human development and their considerations in public policy debates and processes

Each submitted article undergoes a rigorous peer review process. The Center may also call upon relevant academics from Kosovo, regional and foreign universities to be part of the review process. Each successful paper will be published by the WBP Review. Copyrights, however, remain under the sole ownership of each author or group of authors. 

The Western Balkans Policy Review will be published twice a year. The first edition of the journal is expected to come out in June 2010.

Call for Contributions

The first, special edition of the WBP Review will be dedicated to the international conference on Western Balkans: An Opportunity or a Challenge for the Future of the EU, organized and hosted jointly by the Kosovo Public Policy Center, the American University in Kosovo Research Center, and the Victory University College in Prishtina, Kosovo.

For more information on the conference and guidelines to submit your abstract, please click here. 

WBP Review - Editorial Board   

In an effort to make the WBP Review a scholarly journal of highest international academic standards, the Center is currently working closely with universities and other academic institutions in the region and abroad to establish an Editorial Board.  Once this process is complete, the members of the WBP Review Editorial Board will be listed herein.

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