About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal aims at deepening the intellectual debate on crucial challenges facing the modern world, with a special focus on regional integration issues. State and the market, representation and efficiency in democracy, modernity and modernization, the political power of the judges, the common good and utopia, have been among its focal points. After a two-year incubating period (2003-2004), the journal became part of a broader European project, the European Union-Latin American Observatory (OBREAL/EULARO), which offered an institutional space for the intellectual debate. During this period (2005-2007), the tradition of thematic issues developed. Each number was published in both Spanish and English. As this European project came to an end, the frequency was reduced to one issue per year, and the journal started to be published only in Spanish. In 2008, a special edition was published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the campus of the University of Bologna in Argentina. The special issue of 2009, dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the first universal suffrage elections of the European Parliament, accompanied the birth of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, created in the Argentinian campus in the same year. Ever since, the journal came out biannually. Since the first issue of 2011, due to the impending European crises, the second section of review began to host primary sources, in the form of representative documents on the ongoing debate.

Peer Review Process

Authors are invited to contribute to each issue on the basis of a thematic guideline drafted by the director after discussing with the Editorial Committee the content of each number. Each article is reviewed by the members of the Editorial Committee and, in case of need, by an external reader.

Publication Frequency

Annually (2008-2009; 2014)

Biannually (2010-2013)

Quarterly (2005-2007)

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.

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Journal History

Puente@Europa is a printed and online journal which aims at creating a common language between intellectuals of Latin America and Europe belonging to the field of humanities and social sciences.
In order to do that, each number is thought as a thematic and autonomous unit, were authors are invited to participate on the basis of the relevance and originality of their vision on the chosen question.
The issues mostly aim at deepening the debate on crucial challenges of modern world, with a special attention to questions related to integration. State and the market, representation and efficiency in democracy, modernity and modernization, the political power of the judges, the common good and utopia, have been among its focal points. After a formative era (2003-2005), thanks to financial support coming from the Jean Monnet program of the European Union, the review has been able to consolidate both in its contents and graphic aspects.