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The most important thing any scholarly journal can do is to publish scholarly research and writing that is both excellent and intellectually engaging. Since it hit the ground running in 2002, Perspectives on Politics has been committed to the highest standards of scholarly publication. At the same time, from its inception Perspectives has been a journal with a difference, seeking to combine scholarly excellence with relevance and readability, and to feature a wide range of formats for and perspectives on the serious study of politics. For the past ten years Perspectives has thus served as an important public sphere for political science in general and especially for the American Political Science Association.

China Perspectives, created in Hong Kong in 1991, is an outgrowth of the French Perspectives chinoises, & it assists French & European China specialists in conducting in-depth field research concerning the contemporary People's Republic of China. The journal is facilitated by its proximity to Chinese fieldwork; its prompt publication of research of a country on the fast track of development; its appeal to a wider target audience; & its links to European research on contemporary China. L. A. Hoffman

As human relations consultants, our perspectives often are formed by comparing our environments with the environments of others. In this issue of G&OS we have invited two Australians to share their assess ment of training and organization development in their country.

The December 1977 issue of G&OS included Warner Burke's American perspective on organization development in Japan. We hope that the views of Burke and Nobuaki Kuniya in combination with editorial comments will give readers a balanced presentation on the salient dimensions of organization development in Japan.

We believe that the perspectives of human relations consultants can be broadened and enriched by looking beyond national boundaries. To that end, previous issues of G&OS have examined the state of training in Israel (March 1976 and June 1977) and in Australia (September 1976 and June 1977).

As human relations consultants, our perspectives on an issue evolve through our knowledge of a client's background and through experiencing the environ ment in which the client functions. We generally do our own informal research, comparing and contrasting the data we have previously collected and analyzing new data. We believe that many concerns and issues in human relations train ing could be highlighted in such a way. We plan to present many issues—areas of concern to our readers—from differing viewpoints in forthcoming issues of G&OS.