The scientific journal Perifereia | Regional Integration: Politics, Economics, Governance aspires to establish itself as a forum for scientific research on issues related to regional integration at the international level. The term regional integration signifies both the institutionalized cooperation between states aiming at gradual economic integration and/or convergence in different policy fields (regionalism), as is the case indicatively, with the European Union (EU), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), as well as spontaneous, "bottom-up", mainly economic, regional integration (regionalization), between states that belong to the same region. 

In this context, the journal hosts scientific articles exploring the economic, political, and institutional aspects of current regional integrations, as well as their relations with the rest of the world, including other regional integration initiatives (inter-regionalism). The journal also hosts scientific studies that examine the dynamics and characteristics of -mainly but not exclusively- economic integration as marked by enhanced economic relations and transactions of all kinds (commercial, financial, monetary, investment) among economic agents in various regions of the world. Finally, the journal hosts articles exploring the interaction of globalization trends and processes with those of regional integration. The journal publishes articles relating to all these themes that are both of theoretical and empirical orientation.

The journal publishes original research articles, brief research notes, policy papers as well as book reviews.  The sole criteria for the selection of submitted texts are their scientific quality and completeness. The journal uses the "double blind review" process, thus ensuring the transparency and impartiality of reviews. 

The journal has adopted a Platinum Open-Access Policy and provides direct open access to its contents.

Authors are not charged with fees for the publication of their work.

All published articles are assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) while the journal allows authors and contributors to register their ORCiD identifiers in their publications. 

The Scientific Journal Regional Integration: Politics, Economics, Governance is published with the support of the Postgraduate Program of Studies: "International and European Governance and Politics" of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (PSPA) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

The administrative support for the publication belongs to the Research Center for Economic Policy, Governance and Development (EKOPDA) of the PSPA/NKUA. The journal is published under the scientific supervision of the Hellenic Scientific Society for International and European Political Economy (EDEPO).

The journal is an evolution of the successful scientific journal Perifereia | Region & Periphery, published for many years by EKOPDA.

Archiving

All content of the journal is distributed and preserved through the LOCKSS system, ensuring its secure archiving in libraries that participate in the LOCKSS network. The journal is also part of the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network (PKP PN) which allows for the digital preservation and long-term access of content hosted in the OJS platform.  

Indexing

The Journal Perifereia | Regional Integration: Politics, Economics, Governance is indexed in the ROAD directory (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) and in OpenAIRE (European Open Science Infrastructure for Research in Europe).

ePublisher

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EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.

EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.

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