The aesthetics and poetics of protest and tango: a very special street milonga in Belgrade this Monday.

We are at the Europe House🇷🇸for our joint conference w/ @reunir.bsky.social! @filipejdus.bsky.social opened the event by noting 🇷🇸 is at a crossroads after 6+ months of political crisis, emphasizing that if #EU🇪🇺 enlargement struggles in the Union's immediate neighborhood, it may struggle elsewhere too

📢Don't miss this 🆕 book chapter by Dr Marko Kovačević (University of Belgrade & GEO-POWER-EU) & Dr Ana B. Fenko where they explore why security regionalization in the Western Balkans remains stalled. Find more ℹ️ here: shorturl.at/weSES #EU #WesternBalkans #enlargement

Congratulations dr Tijana Rečević Krstić!

New publication: I am happy to see Ana Bojinović Fenko's and my chapter on security regionalization and competing regional cultures of anarchy published in the edited volume Western Balkans and the Future of Europe: Between an Enlargement and a Commitment Fatigue: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Glad to be in Ljubljana this week for the Fifth Student Conference on International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Looking forward to interesting IR research presentations and discussions with friends and colleagues.

I am honored and proud to have been invited to join the International Advisory Board of the Journal of International Relations and Development (@jird-jour.bsky.social), and to be among a distinguished group of IR scholars: www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/4...

Police say there are 107K people at the protest in Belgrade but the number is certainly much higher than that.

Serbie : plus de cent mille personnes défilent à Belgrade contre la corruption

Amazing, historical scenes on the streets of Belgrade today, as thousands of people from various directions walk to the city center with and in support of students and their demands.

Any IR colleagues studying realism and know the historical context of Spanish-Portuguese relations?

Journal of Regional Security editors Filip Ejdus, Nemanja Džuverović and Marko Kovačević are attending #ISA2025 this week. Do let us know if you have a conference paper that covers regional security and are interested in potentially submitting a manuscript: scindeks.ceon.rs/journalDetai...

"What's wrong with global governance? Opening new directions" panel at #ISA2025.

The return of geopolitics? Foreign powers and the post-Yugoslav states panel at #ISA2025.

Day 2 at #ISA2025: interesting panels and engaging discussion on the politics of UN Security Council and role change in foreign policy.

#ISA2025, atmosphere after the second panel of day 1.

Looking forward to attending #ISA2025 in Chicago, (re)connecting with IR colleagues and presenting my research paper on small state strategies and UN candidacies within the panel Smart foreign policy strategies of small states (2 March from 1,45 pm to 3,30 pm).

UNGA in the focus these days.

Do you have a state of the art paper on the key theories, concepts and debates in regional security? We are particularly welcoming the papers engaging with contemporary debates and historical development of regional security. Send us your queries/abstracts at [email protected] #Int-rel #IR #IRTheory

Meet the editorial team of the Journal of Regional Security: cis-fpn.rs/team/

Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people. This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up: #Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory, #internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,

Circle U. stands with the students and academic community of the University of Belgrade. We strongly support their engagement and the protection of academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Any attempt to undermine these principles is unacceptable. Read our statement here 👉 tinyurl.com/27ds26br

Another massive 24h-long student gathering is under way in Autokomanda junction in Belgrade. More about the student protests in Serbia and how to help: podrzistudente.org?lang=en

We are happy to share with you the latest Journal of Regional Security Vol. 19, No. 2 (2024): scindeks.ceon.rs/issue.aspx?i.... All articles are available in #openaccess.

I wrote a small piece for University Times, giving an overview of #protests and #blockades in #Serbia Two months since the railway station collapse in Novi Sad and more than a month of #students giving #hope for accountability and democracy in #Serbia universitytimes.ie/2024/12/stud...

With 100,000 protesters, the student-led demonstration against corruption held on Sunday in downtown Belgrade was one the largest rallies in Serbian history. The future’s in the air!

📣 #EISS2025 | Save the date! The 8th edition of the #EISS Annual Conference will take place on 26-27 June 2025 at University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki! ⏰Submit your proposals for panels, poster presentations, or papers by 17 February 2025 eiss-europa.com/2025.html

A quick preview of the forthcoming Journal of Regional Security Vol. 19, No. 2 cover page - stay tuned for the full content in #openaccess.

A starter pack for people interested in discourse in World Politics / International Relations. Please let me know if you would like to be added and don't hesitate to recommend underrepresented scholars and scholars from the "global south" 💫 go.bsky.app/ALZb66Q

We had a fantastic turnout today at our webinar with CEEISA on writing and publishing in international relations. Thank you to the nearly 100 participants! @mybisa.bsky.social @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

🚨LAST CHANCE Register for @risjnl.bsky.social & CEEISA's new publishing webinar! 'Writing International Relations' is aimed at PhD students & early career academics in CEE 3 Dec (9:00 GMT) Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/events/writi... Feat: @therealisthom.bsky.social @filipejdus.bsky.social

I have an issue. Or, more specifically, this article I published together with Linus Hagström now has an issue! It is now out (open access) in the latest issue of European Political Science. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What a week - it is good to see many IR friends and colleagues are joining Bluesky, including the Journal of Regional Security: bsky.app/profile/jrnl...

go.bsky.app/DNNMmc1 Dear Blues, Please be invited to join the Starter Pack on IR Constructivism. I am mindful of a number of key players not yet having signed up to Bluesky: P Katzenstein, F Kratochwil, N Onuf, M Finnemore, A Wendt, V Pouliot, KE Joergensen, KM Fierke, Th Risse among others.

Are you an ECR looking to publish your work in RIS? Are you based in Central and Eastern Europe? Please join us for a meet-the-editors panel on December 3 at 9:00AM UTC! Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/414NfdT

JOhn Ikenberry with a capsule review of our book www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/two-...

"Competent performance of vulnerability" matters for small states.

Call for Abstracts International Theory ISA 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop - A day-long workshop in advance of #ISA2025 for early-career and underrepresented scholars who work on international theory. Find out more - cup.org/4dX9x3R Deadline: 15 December 2024

📣 Applications are now open for postdoctoral bridge grants, supporting recently graduated or final-year PhD students who have not yet secured an academic contract or fellowship 💸 EISA will award up to 3 grants of €3,500 each 🗓️ Application deadline: 28 February 2025

Interesting, star-studded, Millennium forum on multiplicity and 'the international' "Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum" Justin Rosenberg, Ole Wæver, Viacheslav Morozov, Charlotte Epstein, R.B.J. Walker, Arlene B Tickner, Milja Kurki journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Recently in my Critical Security Studies class we did Critical Theory, and the inevitable discussion was about theory-practice nexus and emancipation as security. However, what happens with critical theory (and CSS) when there is not one coherent object of emancipation?

On connecting the dots of (post)Yugoslav IR, and a chance to revisit this article co-authored inJournal of International Relations and Development with @filipejdus.bsky.social: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...