Letter from the Incoming Editor
Letter from the Incoming Editor

Summary/Abstract: There are events in one's intellectual life that are simultaneously enormously rewarding and demanding. Taking up the editorship of East European Politics and Societies (EEPS) is one of these events, and, if I may remark, this occurrence speaks volumes for the openmindedness of the American academic community. Years ago, the late Ferenc Feher, himself a contributor to EEPS, called me "a walking Who's Who in Eastern Europe." If he had said, 16 years ago, when I arrived in the United States, that I would be invited to edit the most prestigious journal focused on the region where I was born and educated, I would have thought that he was dreaming. Nevertheless, the dream has become a reality, and the invitation to the editorship is one of the most felicitous events of my life. [...]

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