BASAK Z. ALPAN Doctoral Candidate and Research Student, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK M. B. B. BISKUPSKI S. A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish History, Central Connecticut State University, USA JULIANE BRANDT Researcher, Institute for German Culture and History in South East Europe (IKGS), Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany OSKAR GRUENWALD Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Canada MOJMIR KRI AN Freelancer, Germany JOHN J. KULCZYCKI Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA FRANCESCO LEONCINI Professor of Slavic History and of Central European History, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy LAURE NEUMAYER Assistant Professor of Political Science, l'Universite de Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, France INGRID RODER PhD-Researcher, Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies, University of Bremen, Germany STEFAN SAMERSKI Professor, Catholic Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany AN SCHRIJVERS Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Centre for European Union Studies, Department of Political Science, Ghent University, Belgium KRISTA ZACH Visiting Professor for European Studies in History, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania