This is the second issue of the East-West-Studies journal's new series. This time there is no special focus, but the reader will find a miscellaneous group of articles, submitted by scholars from different countries, European and not, and written with interdisciplinary sensibility. They all deal with important questions that are marking our time. War, constitutional rights and values, the nature of legal norms, penal populism, ordo-liberalism, and the growth of social inequalities are the diverse area dealt with in the journal in this new issue. All these articles are contributions to the discussion and the understanding of matters that scholars but above all citizens face when acting within the legal and political dimension that define their location in the social world.