Peace building and development are increasingly of interest in international relations. In addition, more and more attention is being given to electoral phenomena in developing and post-conflict countries. In this sense, comparative politics goes back to the earlier debates on the political systems of developing countries, focusing as well on their increasing experimentation with regime change and democratization. While the interest in the experience of developing countries grows, the related academic debates continue their contradictory nature in engaging with the current practices in development, such as the emergence of new donors, changes in donor behaviour, policy coherence in how development aims are supported or not by trade or political policies and practices, and, not least, the success of the Millennium Development Goals and the formulation of their successors, the Sustainable Development Goals. A further issue to consider would be the question whether development studies as a discipline is dead as Sylvia Maxfield (2006) was pointing out or is it gaining momentum as development topics resurge in other disciplines and policy areas? The Romanian Journal of Political Science invites authors to engage with the above topics in the upcoming, winter 2014 issue.

PolSci (Romanian Journal of Political Science) is a bi-annual journal edited by the Romanian Academic Society (RAS). PolSci is indexed by ISI Thomson under the Social Sciences Citation Index and by other prominent institutions such as IPSA, GESIS, EBSCO, CEEOL and ProQuest. Previous PolSci contributors include Francis Fukuyama, Larry Diamond or Philippe Schmitter, as well as a significant number of young researchers. The Journal welcomes academic papers, reviews of recent publications and announcements of forthcoming volumes as well as contributions from various fields of research in the social sciences.

Submissions are now being accepted for the winter 2014 issue.

Please submit your work saved as a Microsoft Word document at polsci@sar.org.ro before October 12, 2014, midnight Central European Time. Please note that we will not review manuscripts that have already been published, are scheduled for publication elsewhere, or have been simultaneously submitted to another journal.

The Romanian Academic Society requires the assignment of copyright. If you are interested in submitting an article, please visit our website for details on the Authors’ Guidelines.

Managing Editor
Tel: 0040 212 111 424
E-mail: polsci@sar.org.ro