It is with great pleasure that I introduce the first issue of Global Discourse as published by Bristol University Press (BUP). This new, long-term publishing arrangement promises to secure the journal’s future, to protect our commitment to working with young, engaged guest editors to examine issues as they emerge and to ensure that we realise our commitment to innovation through formal deployment of new sections
that we have sought to develop since the journal’s inception. The fact that BUP is not for profit has a natural synergy with the background and vision of the journal and is already enabling us to realise some of our longstanding ambitions.