Current Publications

The Annual Report provides an overview of important key facts and figures as well as the work of the IOS.

The report documents the debates on the challenges facing journals in Eastern European studies and history - from geopolitical crises to open access. Since 2012, the workshop series has been organized in cooperation between the editorial boards of JGO and ZfO.

JGO (4/2023) is a thematic issue edited by Corinna Kuhr-Korolev on "Evolution Instead of Revolution – Elite Networks since Perestroika".

Comparative Southeast European Studies is available in open access.

Essay published in Open Access in Contemporary Southeastern Europe.

Comparative Southeast European Studies 72, no. 1, 2024 is available in open access. Guest editors: Gergana Mircheva and Olga Popova.

Parts of the journal are freely available online for the first time, provided by the digital collections of the IOS.

JGO (3/2023) is a thematic issue edited by Olena Palko and Samuel Foster on "Being a Minority in Times of Crises".

Comparative Southeast European Studies 71, no. 4, 2023 is available in open access. Guest editors: Svetlana Suveica and Petru Negura.

Many right-wing extremists and populists, who admire Viktor Orbán could soon come to power in Western Europe and the USA. But where will this lead? In the IOS blog, Ulf Brunnbauer uses Hungary as an example to explain how authoritarian politics exacerbates problems (in German).