Assistant Professor Dr Tijana Rečević (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science) will deliver a lecture titled “Serbia’s Foreign Policy in Times of Geopolitical Strain: How Elites and the Public Make Sense of Its Strategic Positioning?” as part of the IESD Online Research Seminar 2025–2026, organised by the Institut d’Études de Stratégie et de Défense (IESD), Jean Moulin Lyon III University.
The lecture will take place on 11 February 2026, from 17:30 to 19:00 CET, as the second session of the seminar series “Caught in a Strategic Stranglehold: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Serbia under Pressure”, which comparatively explores the position of small powers in the post-socialist space.
In this session, Rečević will examine how Serbia’s foreign policy choices are interpreted and justified under growing geopolitical pressure, with particular attention to the interaction between elite narratives and broader public understandings of the country’s strategic positioning. The talk will offer a comparative and theoretically informed perspective on how small states navigate external constraints, competing alignments, and domestic expectations in times of heightened international uncertainty.
The event is hosted by IESD at the Faculty of Law, Jean Moulin Lyon III University, and forms part of its ongoing academic seminar programme dedicated to strategic and defence studies.
