MEĐUNARODNI PROBLEMI

Dr. Nebojša Vuković is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics, where he has been employed since August 2016. His main areas of academic interests are geopolitics, geostrategy, political geography, American global strategy, conflicts in the Balkans, foreign policy of the Russian Federation. Vuković obtained his doctor’s degree at the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade, in 2011 with focus on theoretical directions in Russian geopolitical thought. Nebojša earned his Master’s degree at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, in 2006, with thesis on theoretical work of Nicholas Spykman. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad in 1998. He worked as a Philosophy teacher in secondary schools until 2016. Nebojša Vuković authored monographic study “The Logic of an Empire: Nicholas Spykman and contemporary American Geopolitics” and a dozen of research papers in the fields mentioned above.

E-mail: nebojsa@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9692-9062

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nebojsa-Vukovic

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zo1YPCgAAAAJ&hl=sr

Dr Ivona Lađevac is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal “International Problems”. She graduated and earned her MSc Degree at the Faculty of Political Sciences Belgrade University (department for International Relations), while her Ph.D. got at the Faculty of Security Studies with thesis on “Strategic Partnership of Russian Federation and People’s Republic of China within global security context”. Dr Lađevac also completed specialization in European studies and attended seminars on strengthening capacity of public administration, labor migrations in the Balkans, strengthening capacity of the cross-border cooperation, preparing project proposals for EU funded projects, as well the United Nations summer school about challenges to international peace and security in new millennium.

She has participated in many international conferences and authored numerous scientific papers, including two monographs, editor and coeditor of several thematic and international conference proceedings. Her main research areas are contemporary international relations, focused to relations between China and Russia, the Belt and the Road Initiative as well to cooperation between China and CEEC’s. Fluent in English, possess good knowledge of French and studying Chinese language.

E-mail: ivona@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4052-4426
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivona-Ladevac
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KURksOAAAAAJ&hl=en

Milan Veselica, MA, is a Research Assistant at the Institute of International Politics and Economics, аnd a PhD student at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. At the same Faculty, he earned BA degree in International Studies (Module: International Politics) and MA degree in Political Science – Politics and Religion. He is a Secretary of the scientific journal “International Problems/ Međunarodni problemi”. Additionally, he is working as a research assistant on the Religion and State Project (RAS), conducted by Prof. Jonathan Fox and Dr. Ariel Zellman from the Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. The main area of Milan’s academic interest is the relationship between religion and politics in the modern world, with a special emphasis on the Roman Catholic Church as a transnational religious actor, ecumenical and religious-political relations in Europe, and religious identity. The overview of his published research is available here.

E-mail: milan.veselica@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

https://enauka.gov.rs/browse?type=author&authority=rp33139&authority_lang=en_US

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milan-Veselica-4

https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1608-3678

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=sr&user=qsHJ_98AAAAJ

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