Title: Foreword by Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for the inaugural issue of the Asian Journal of German and European Studies (AJGES)
Abstract: The launching of a new, highly visible and accessible peer reviewed journal on German and European Studies with a strong Asian perspective provides a twofold reason to celebrate: Not only does this journal constitute a promising and unique new platform for comparative and mutually inspiring scholarship on contemporary Germany, Europe and beyond.AJGES is also one of the many projects so impressively initiated by the Centre for German and European Studies at Chung-Ang University (ZeDES), which I was