Eurolimes: Ongoing European Security Appraisal.

Olimid, Anca Parmena

EUROLIMES: Ongoing European Security Appraisal Journal of the Institute for Euroregional Studies "Jean Monnet" European Centre of Excellence, University of Oradea and University of Debrecen, Oradea University Press

ISSN-L 1841-9259

With the syntagma "Theoretical approaches and borders' assessment" in title of its 20th Volume (Autumn 2015), the Eurolimes international journal is an editorial "promise" at the celebration of the 10 years of continuous publication.

The volume is a readable and collecting archive of analysis, studies and case reports enabling borders and security regards, cooperation approaches and linking territoriality undertakes.

Volume 20 reflects and assume as prevailing working hypothesis the process of security institutionalization and the challenges to the international relations and European studies. This anniversary issue is edited under the coordination of Professor Ioan Horga (University of Oradea) and Professor Istvan Suli-Zakar (University of Debrecen) with references from Carlos Pacheco Amaral and Ana Maria Costea. The focus of this issue of Eurolimes is divided into four parts.

The first part of the Volume entitled: "Cross-Border's Assessment" comprises three articles and studies and it acknowledges the cross-border infrastructure by disclosing the state-of-art in the field, appropriate case studies and the current status at regional level.

Likewise, the second part entitled "Border and Security Cooperation Approaches" comprises four articles and studies and it locates the typology of the state border(s), the subjective and objective challenges of the participation and assistance within the cross-border regions.

The third part entitled "Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers: Theoretical Approach" contains three articles and studies and provides the inner focus of the debate on the interregional policies and standards interlinking the institutionalization understandings and the fixing theoretical advances of the international relations and European studies notions.

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The fourth part of the volume focuses on the past and future editorial and statistical examination of the ten years of regulation publication of the journal Eurolimes addressing journal timeless lens and regular themes and contributions.

This part also identifies the "space" dimension and the regional viewpoints in-between the openness expectations and the security functionalities. The fourth section of the Volume 20 of Eurolimes points the debate over the cross-border regional threats mobilizing regional resources, environmental matters, political interests and social engagements.

As the contents of the Volume 20 is enabled, the case study of the "cross-border security" challenges the field of cooperation and the institutionalization processes tags the path to regional lens of territoriality and security. Eurolimes' ambitious contents provide a broad recognition of the concept of: "border", "frontier", "territory", "external borders", "inclusive frontiers", "trans-border cooperation", "police cooperation" etc.

It also relates diversified topics and indicators in the field of: European institutions, EU governance, social and political developments, border management, regional policies and strategies, information security, digital facts and trends, electronic knowledges and researches.

The Eurolimes' contents advance a new interdisciplinary passage to the latest security theoretical and practical processes and devices.

The journal is an innovative academic and professional statement of the European border security references.

The resources are also enabled as a composite network of new data on the European borders, screening the European security management and configuring territorial divides, regional and national gaps, typical overtures to community, identity and culture indexing facts, figures, trends, statistical outlines and analytical interpretations as essential tools for the study of the security areas and cross-border cooperation.

Anca Parmena Olimid (*)

(*) Associate Professor, PhD, University of Craiova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Political Sciences specialization, Center of Post-Communist Political Studies (CEPOS), Editor in Chief of the Revista de Stiinte Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques, Phone: 0040251418515, Email: parmena2002@yahoo.com

Book & Journal Review Info

Received: March 15 2017

Accepted: March 30 2017