In Statu Nascendi is a new peer-reviewed journal that investigates specific issues through a socio-cultural, philosophical, and anthropological approach to raise a new type of civic awareness about the complexity of the contemporary crisis, instability, and warfare situations, where the “stage of becoming” plays a vital role. Issue 2019:1 comprises, amongst others, the following articles: - An Interview with Marcin Grabowski on the Political Situation in Asia in General and North Korea in Particular - The EU and the Migration Crisis: ‘The EU-Turkey Deal’: Policy Effectiveness and Challenges of Implementation - The Syrian Conflict (2011–2017): How a Perfectly Winnable Uprising has been Transformed into a Civil War, Only to End up as a Ferocious Proxy War - Interview with Prof. Maria Dimitrova on Continental Philosophy in General and Emmanuel Levinas’ Philosophy in Particular - Patristic Tradition, Criterialism, and Levinasian Quasi-Theological Conditions of the Self - Reconsidering the Notion of the Creative Genius in Postmodern Philosophy and Art