Filip Ejdus
Filip Ejdus is a Professor in International Security at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science. He studies how identity, memory, emotions, and rationality affect security policy and international interventions, while the geographic focus of his interests is the EU, Western Balkans, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, working on a project titled Local Ownership in Security Sector Reform Activities Within CSDP Interventions of the EU (2015-2017). He has published extensively in academic journals in the fields of political science, international relations and security studies. His most recent book is Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia’s Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Filip currently serves as the Head of the Centre for International Security, co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Regional Security, a board member of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), co-chair of the Regional Stability Study Group at the Partnership for Peace Consortium, and President of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA).
Nemanja Džuverović
Nemanja Džuverović is a Professor in Peace Studies at the University of Belgrade. He is also a visiting professor at Northwestern University. His research areas include critical peacebuilding, political economy of liberal peacebuilding, international statebuilding in the Balkans, and sociology of International Relations.
He has been visiting researcher at the University of Manchester (Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute), the University of Uppsala (Department of Peace and Conflict Research), the University of Bradford (Department of Peace Studies and International Development) and the University of Granada (Institute for Peace and Conflicts). Nemanja has also been a visiting professor at several universities, including University of Turin, University of Naples Federico II, University of Konstanz, University of Bologna, University of Ljubljana, and University of Granada. He is program co-director of the MA Peace, Security and Development.
Rok Zupančič
Rok Zupančič is a Professor of Defence Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on peacebuilding processes in Southeast Europe, with a particular interest in how post-conflict environments shape both the psychological and physiological experiences of individuals (their ‘bodyminds’).
Currently, Rok leads the research project AnxiousPeace – Anxieties in divided cities in post-conflict societies: developing and testing innovative (experimental) approaches in peacebuilding, funded by the Slovenian Research Agency. He has been a principal investigator of the University of Ljubljana’s research teams in two Horizon 2020 projects (IECEU – Improving the Effectiveness of Capabilities in EU Conflict Prevention, and RePAST – Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the Future.
Marko Kovačević
Marko Kovačević is an Assistant Professor in International Security at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science. His research and teaching focus on international relations theory, critical security studies, European security, small states, and academic writing, including the coordination of the MA Program in Peace, Security and Development in the academic year 2024/2025.
Marko’s current research explores regional security cooperation in the Western Balkans, role theory and Eastern European candidacies for elected UN bodies. During 2022–2025, he was the work package leader on the MIND research project, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, and currently contributes to the Horizon Europe project Geo-Power-EU (2024–2027).
Some of his articles have appeared in European Political Science, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, and Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, including the chapters in edited volumes published by Routledge and Springer. Marko is a Co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Regional Security. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science (2021).
Managing Editors
Tijana Rečević
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science
Book Review Editor
Andrej Cvetić
Department of Political Sceince, Trinity College Dublin
Editorial Assistant
Aneta Šamanc
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science
Editorial Board
Miroslav Hadžić
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science
Bogoljub Milosavljević
Union University – Faculty of Law
Sonja Stojanović Gajić
Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
Iver B. Neumann
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Amitav Acharya
American University
Timothy Edmunds
Bristol University
Barry Ryan
Keele University
Cornelius Friesendorf
The Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
Kenneth Morison
De Montfort University
Alper Kaliber
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University
Jelena Subotić
Georgia State University
Roger Mac Ginty
University of Manchester, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
J. Andrew Grant
Queen’s University
Adam Fagan
King’s College London
Nadege Ragaru
Sciences Po Paris
Petra Roter
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Science
Hilde Haug
University of Oslo
Dragan Simić
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science
Dušan Pavlović
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science
Nebojša Vladisavljević
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science
Stefano Guzzini
Danish Institute for International Studies
Siniša Tatalović
University of Zagreb – Faculty of Political Science,
Mateja Peter
University of St. Andrews and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Philip Cunliffe
University of Kent
Milada Anna Vachudova
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oliver Richmond
The University of Manchester
Sead Turčalo
University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Political Sciences
Dejan Jović
University of Zagreb – Faculty of Political Science
Elena B. Stavrevska
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Birte Vogel
The University of Manchester
Marcos Alan Ferreira
Federal University of Paraiba
Amir Lupovici
Tel Aviv University