This issue includes the special section “Battle for the European Union in the Periphery: Contestation Dynamics and Domestic Debates (LEAP)” by Ali Onur Özçelіk, Kadri Kaan Renda, Anthony Costello, covering the contested Europeanization in the European Periphery, including Hungary, Serbia, Georgia, and Turkey. Issue additionally covers the trajectory of the field of Balkan Southeast European studies, religion under communist rule in Albania, the dehumanization of Armenians in the speeches of Aliyev, genocide denialism in Turkey, history of Roma in Montenegro, party systems under autocratization, and Turkish international education aid.