Senior Research Fellow
Slobodan Janković is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Politics and Economics. He joined the Institute of International Politics and Economics in 2006, where his main areas of academic interest include philosophy of history, Middle East politics, relations between big powers and the MENA region countries, Italian political history, Middle East peace process, borders in the Balkans and on migration trends.
Janković is a guest lecturer at the master in Geopolitica e Sicurezza Globale, Department of Politics of the La Sapienza University, Rome. gave lectures on Balkan politics, on IR theories and Peace Studies at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy, Faculty of Politics at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
Slobodan obtained his PhD on Obstacles to the Middle East Peace process at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade (2014). He had earned his MA degree in Geopolitics and Global Security at the Faculty of Politics, University La Sapienza in Rome (thesis: Radical Islam in Turkey), and had graduated from the Department of History, Faculty of Letters, University Roma TRE in Rome, Italy.
He is author of scientific monographies Жаришта светског рата (Hotspots of the World War 2023), Блискоисточна криза: рат без мира (Middle East Crisis: War without of Peace, 2019) и Англоамеричка обмана (Anglo-American Deceit, 2017), as well of dozens of articles on the Middle East, on Balkan politics, Italian contemporary history, world political and cultural trends.
Besides that, he edited several collections of papers among whom are Convergence and confrontation: the Balkans and the Middle East in the 21st century (2021) and Балкан у доба глобалног преуређивања (2019). Since 2008 Janković has been a member of the Editorial Board of the monthly Geopolitika, Serbian review of geopolitics and culture. Slobodan is a member of the CSOs the Serbian Scientific Centre and of the Centre for Conservative Studies. Slobodan is a contact point of IIPE for EuroMesco.
Janković completed the course for international officers at SIOI (Societa` Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale), with the following thesis: “The Western Balkans in European integrations”. He also completed several seminars and courses: the Summer School on Conflict Management and Negotiation, on Logical Framework Approach, on writing EU project proposals and on Labour Migration Policy and Practice, Belgrade.
Slobodan is a member of the publishing council of the scientific journal Studi Urbinati. He was Editor-in-Chief of IIPE′s quarterly journal The Review of International Affairs, (2019–2020), and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IIPE′s quarterly journal published in Serbian Međunarodna politika (2015–2018).
He is proficient in Italian and English and has a good passive knowledge of Russian and French.
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