LibrelloPolitics and Governance1120130305Inaugural Editorial1510.12924/pag2013.01010001ENAmeliaHadfieldInstitute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. Amelia.Hadfield@vub.ac.beAndrejJ.ZwitterFaculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. a.zwitter@rug.nlPaG-1.1.12013021920130220We are proud to welcome our readers, contributors and reviewers to this inaugural issue of Politics and Governance, published by Librello Publishing House—a peer reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the study of politics in the national, regional and global realm, and the modes and methods of governance in all its manifestations. We are thrilled to be so ably supported by an editorial board that is not only strongly international, but inherently multi-disciplinary in its academic orientations, and welcome them, and the new readership and future authors, to this new open-source journal.