JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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DEAR READER,
With this issue we are closing the first year of the Journal of Eurasian Studies. When we launched the
Journal in March this year, the initial core team was hopeful that this new scientific forum by its very
nature would generate interest from all around the world. The positive feedback that we received from
readers as well as from new authors exceeded even our most optimistic expectations. The
overwhelmingly positive reception of the Journal made it possible for it to mature at a faster pace than
envisaged. At the end of the first year the structure of the Journal is greatly in place, the board of editors
is enlarged and the informal network including the authors significantly widened.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank from the bottom of my heart to all our Readers for their
comments and encouragement, to our Authors for their submitted papers and to the Editors who made
this possible.
In the next year we are going to continue this work with even more resolve, maintaining the highest
academic quality and freedom. My personal opinion is that at present mankind is experiencing one of
the most exciting and challenging periods of its history. Our aim is to continue covering this
extraordinary period with works focusing mainly, but not exclusively on Eurasia.
In the name of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Eurasian Studies I wish you all a Happy New Year!
Flórián Farkas
Editor-in-Chief
The Hague, December 15, 2009
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