International Politics is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal published by the Institute of International Politics and Economics, the leading scientific institution in the region dedicated to researching international relations. For more than 70 years, this interdisciplinary journal has published original analytical, theoretical, and review papers on a wide range of contemporary international political, economic, and legal relations. The journal is interested in the policies of the most important actors that shape modern international affairs. Topics dedicated to various territorial and ethnic conflicts and disputes, from interstate to intrastate, as well as their broader regional and global political, economic, and legal implications are also relevant. Other issues affecting contemporary international relations, such as global trade, economic and energy relations, international and regional integration, various forms of terrorism and fundamentalism, as well as the challenges posed by the migrant crisis, the global spread of contiguous diseases, and nuclear capacity in the world, are all significant to the journal. So, this scientific journal is based on an open and wide approach to the subject area.
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The journal is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Government of the Republic of Serbia. According to the law, all published issues and volumes of the journal are archived in the digital deposit of the National Library of Serbia. It is currently indexed in the following databases: Google Scholar and the Kobson database.
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International Politics is published three times a year, in April, August, and December. The journal publishes Serbian-language articles, but it also accepts English-language manuscripts.
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Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Ana Jović-Lazić
Deputy Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Sanja Jelisavac-Trošić
Secretary:
Milena Mitrović, MA
Contact:
mp@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs
EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr. Aleksandar JAZIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Aleksandar MILOŠEVIĆ, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr Aleksandra TOŠOVIĆ-STEVANOVIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Beatriz BISSIO, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prof. Birgül DEMIRTAŞ, Full Professor, Turkish-German University, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Bogdan STOJANOVIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Vladimir TRAPARA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Darina GRIGOROVA, Full Professor, Faculty of History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria
Dr. Dragan PETROVIĆ, Scientific Adviser, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Dušan DOSTANIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Žaklina NOVIČIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Zsuzsa M. CSÁSZÁR, Associate Professor, Department of Political Geography, Development and Regional Studies, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Dr. Ivan DUJIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Marko DAŠIĆ, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Marko KOVAČEVIĆ, Assistant, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Miloš HRNJAZ, Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Miroslav MLADENOVIĆ, Full Professor, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Nemanja DŽUVEROVIĆ, Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Olga BARBASIEWICZ, Associate Professor, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Prof. Olga SHISHKINA, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia
Prof. Petar STANOJEVIĆ, Faculty of Security Studies, Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Rastislav KAZANSKÝ, Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Matej Bel University, Banskа Bystrica, Slovakia
Prof. Ruth FERRERO TURRIÓN, Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Prof. Sebastian STĘPIEŃ, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poznan, Poland
Dr. Stevan GAJIĆ, Research Fellow, Institute for European Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Stevan NEDELJKOVIĆ, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Halil Emre DENIŞ, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Hakkari University, Hakkari, Turkey
Dr Hrvoje BUTKOVIĆ, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
EDITORIAL BOARD
Prof. Ivo VISKOVIĆ, Full Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Alexis TROUDE, Full Professor, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France
Dr Biser BANCHEV, Research Fellow, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Vasily KLAVDIEVICH BELOZEROV, Full Professor, Department of Political Science, Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia
Prof. Violeta RAŠKOVIĆ-TALOVIĆ, Full Professor, Faculty of International Politics and Security Studies, University Union “Nikola Tesla”, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Dejan STOJKOVIĆ, Assistant Professor, University of Defense of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Zoltán HAJDÚ, Scientific Adviser, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, ELKH Budapest
Prof. Jovanka ŠARANOVIĆ, Associate Professor, Institute for Strategic Research, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Luka BRKIĆ, Full Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Prof. Marjan GJUROVSKI, Associate Professor, Faculty of Security Skopje, University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Northern Macedonia
Dr. Miroslav GLIŠIĆ, Assistant Professor, University of Defense of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Tanja MIŠČEVIĆ, Full Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Prof. Tian DEWEN, Full Professor, Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing , China
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