Contemporary European Politics is an open-access journal in the field of European politics. The journal is devoted to promoting original research and insightful debate in contemporary European politics by publishing

• Academic articles,
• Research comments
• Policy analysis
• Book reviews covering European politics both within and beyond the European Union.

The journal actively invites contributions from both interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches, providing new perspective on European political topics. The journal not only welcomes submissions from the field of Politics, but also disciplines such as Law, International Relations, Public Administration, Policy, Economics, History and Cultural Studies, which further our understanding of European political processes. 

As a charitable organisation, UACES channels all revenue generated from CEP into supporting our members' activities and benefiting the wider community.

Dr Christopher Huggins is a Director of Academic Programmes and Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Christopher’s research interests are focused on sub-national politics and devolution, the role of local and regional government in European Union politics, and the UK-EU relationship. As part of the journal's editorial team, Christopher is keen to ensure the diversity of European politics scholarship, both in terms of disciplinarity and the scholars working in the field, is represented and accessible to a wide audience.

Dr Natasza Styczyńska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). Her academic interests include party politics, nationalism, populism and Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She leads JU team in H2020 REGROUP Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic research project and is a director of studies of Una Europa Joint BA in European Studies at Jagiellonian.

Dr Bruno Theodoro Luciano is a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. His areas of expertise and research interests focus on ​​regional integration and comparative regionalism in Europe, Latin America and Africa, particularly in trade, democracy protection and foreign policy agendas. By joining in the editorial board of Contemporary European Politics, he intends to contribute to the expansion of academic publications from non-European countries and non-Eurocentric approaches to the study of European politics.