(APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON 1 AUGUST 2024)
The Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA) is looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of JIRD from the present Co-ordinating Editors Xymena Kurowska and Saskia Stachowitsch, and their team of Associate Editors (Stephanie Hofmann, Frédéric Mérand, Ty Solomon, Florian Weiler, Rafi Youatt, Srđan Vučetić) and the JIRD communication officer (Katarina Kušić), at the beginning of 2025.
As a CEEISA journal, published by Palgrave Macmillan and co-owned by the Centre of International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, where the journal was established 40 years ago, in 1984, JIRD strives to reflect the wide range of interests in International Relations and International Political Economy. It addresses a range of global issues and leading theory debates. An important part of its mission is to stimulate and disseminate theory-informed research and scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe and throughout the international academic community.
The CEEISA wishes to maintain the high international standing that the journal has been achieving consistently and is therefore looking for a new editorial team with the strength and institutional support to sustain the tradition and position established by the previous editorial teams. The position may be filled by either an editor or an editorial team headed by one person. The successful applicant or applying team must be established scholars in the fields covered by the journal, be fluent in English and have an internationally recognized track record of scholarship with publications in global journals that are well-established and recognized in the academic community. The new editorial team will reflect the regional roots of the journal together with a diversity of geographical experiences and significant expertise in many of the fields and core areas of the International Relations discipline: International Political Economy, International Organization, International Political Sociology, Security Studies, Gender, Geopolitics, International Political Theory, to name but a few. The editorial team will also bring exceptional methodological breadth to the journal, spanning expertise in formal modelling, quantitative and qualitative positivist, interpretive and narrative methods. CEEISA will strive to have an inclusive team also in terms of gender and geographical diversity as well as individuals who are active in and/or familiar with CEEISA. The length of the tenure is four years.
Applicants, both individuals and teams, should send the following information:
1. a statement expressing interest in editing the journal and a vision for the journal in the next four years;
2. a full resume and, if applicable, a full resume of all the suggested members of the Editorial Team – preference may be given to applicants who have included a scholar from the Central and Eastern European region as a member of their Editorial Team;
3. a letter from the Home Institution (in the case of an Editorial Team, this should be the Home Institution of the Editor-in-Chief) stating its commitment to support the potential editor. A statement about the provided financial and administrative support by the Home Institution could be an advantage in the selection process.
The successful applicant will have at their disposal two Editorial Assistants based at the Centre of International Relations, and/or some financial support to organize the editorial work at their Home Institution. There is also some support for a communication officer.
For informal inquiries about the JIRD editorial work, please get in touch with Xymena Kurowska (kurowskaX@ceu.edu), Filip Ejdus (filip.ejdus@fpn.ac.rs) and/or Petra Roter (petra.roter@fdv.uni-lj.si) – all three will be also available at the 2024 CEEISA/ISA Rijeka conference in June 2024. Please send your submissions via e-mail to the Secretary General of CEEISA (secretariat@ceeisa.net). Applications will close on 1 August 2024. It is envisaged that the handover process starts on 2 November 2024, and under any circumstances is to be completed by 31 January 2025.