International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs
International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs

Former: Medzinárodné otázky - Časopis pre medzinárodné vzťahy, medzinárodné právo, diplomaciu, hospodárstvo a kultúru. The periodical merged with the journal Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs. The last issue under the title "Medzinárodné otázky - Časopis pre medzinárodné vzťahy, medzinárodné právo, diplomaciu, hospodárstvo a kultúru" is issue 4/2005. International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs is the neither new nor old review published by the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA) being established by merging two periodicals – Medzinárodné otázky (International Issues) and Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, published by RC SFPA Medzinárodné otázky (International Issues) was established in 1992. The journal was published quarterly by the Slovak Institute for International Studies. It was the first expert periodical dealing with international relations, economy and diplomacy published in the Slovak Republic. After the transformation of the Slovak Institute for International Studies in 2004, the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association took over the publishing of the journal. International Issues was initially published bilingually (in English and Slovak). Since 2005 it was published only in Slovak with the short English summaries. Review Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs was focused on the recipients abroad and published twice a year. The overall goal of the creators of the first Slovak foreign policy review published in English was to offer the insights on actual foreign policy discourse in Slovakia and other countries of the Central Europe as well as the other foreign policy topics to readers. In 2006, RC SFPA decided to merge both periodicals due to the limited number of the readers concerning the expert literature in the field of foreign policy; as well as limited numbers of authors dealing with the topic of foreign policy for two journals with the similar structure. The goal of the RC SFPA is to ensure the conditions for the publishing the expert periodical in the field of foreign policy and its further development in the long-term perspective. International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs is supposed to consist of two blocks: expert studies or analyses and book reviews. The target group of the journal are the representatives of the government, legislative bodies, relevant departments of the universities in Slovakia and Central Europe, Slovakia’s embassies, embassies of foreign countries in Slovakia, companies and financial institutions, European think-tanks, European and overseas civil organizations, as well as all others being interested in foreign policy and international relations. Executive editors: Peter Brezáni and Tomáš Strážay (former editors of both periodicals) Editorial Board: Vladimír Bilčík, Peter Brezáni, Ingrid Brocková, Juraj Buzalka, Alexander Duleba, Barbora Gábelová-Jančíová, Grigorij Mesežnikov, Radoslav Procházka, Marek Rybář, Tomáš Strážay, Štefan Šebesta International Advisory Board: Magda Vášáryová, Janusz Bugajski, Erhard Busek, Jiří Dienstbier, Adam Michnik, Jacques Rupnik, Sharon Wolchik, Kieran Williams, Irina Kobrinskaja, Alexander Pavljuk, Christoph Royen, Csaba Kiss, Martin Bútora, Juraj Stern, Pavol Demeš, František Šebej, Soňa Szomolányi The previous ISSN number of International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs was 1210-1583. At the present time, the ISSN for hard copies is 1337-5482 and for online edition is 1336-0361.