Serbia and Challenges in International Relations in 2024
The subject of the research includes phenomena and processes in the political, security, legal and economic level of international relations that determine the position of the Republic of Serbia in world politics and economics in 2024, with special reference to the circumstances caused by war conflicts on the territory of Ukraine and the Middle East. The focus of the scientific research endeavor is directed towards finding practical political solutions to the indirect and medium-term international political, security, legal and economic challenges faced by domestic foreign policy decision makers.
Project manager:
Dr. Ivona Lađevac
The project is being financially supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia.
Registration number of the Contract for project implementation:
451-03-66/2024-03/200041
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Climate Migration in the Western Balkans: Legal Framework and Security
The DAAD Foundation approved for financing project “Climate Migration in the Western Balkans: Legal Framework and Security”. Leading institution is the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus-Senftenberg, while the University of St. Ćirilo i Metodije from Skopje and the Institute of International Politics and Economics are partners in the project.
The project manager is Prof. Dr. Ike Albrecht, and the partner institutions are in charge of Prof. Dr. Toni Mileski and Dr. Ivona Lađevac.
The project is being implemented in 2024.
Contributing to Modern Partnerships: Assessments of Sino-EU-Serbian Relations (COMPASS)
Project “Contributing to Modern Partnerships: Assessments of Sino-EU-Serbian Relations” (COMPASS) has been approved within the Program Prisma of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.
Team leader: Dr. Ivona Lađevac
Research team: Prof. Branislav Đorđević (IIPE), Dr. Sanja Filipović (Institute of Social Sciences), Dr. Katarina Zakić (IIPE), Dr. Aleksandar Mitić (IIPE), Dr. Nenad Stekić (IIPE), MA Pavle Nedić (IIPE)
Project realization period:1 December 2023 – 30 November 2025
Project funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
Serbia and Challenges in International Relations in 2023
The IIPE research team implements the ongoing project aimed at conducting research which includes phenomena and processes in the political, security, legal and economic level of international relations that determine the position of the Republic of Serbia in world politics and economy in 2023, with special reference to the new circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and effects of the ongoing conflict in the territory of Ukraine. The focus of the scientific research endeavor is directed towards finding practical political solutions to the indirect and medium-term international political, security, legal and economic challenges.
Project manager:
Dr Ivona Lađevac
The project is being financially supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia.
Registration number of the Contract for project implementation:
451-03-47/2023-01/200041
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The Relations Between China, North Macedonia and Serbia in the Changing Geopolitical Context
Project “The Relations between China, North Macedonia and Serbia in the Changing Geopolitical Context”, based on the call for proposals by the China-CEE Institute from Budapest was realized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius from Skopje and the Institute of International Politics and Economics.
Project manager: Prof. Toni Mileski
Researcher team: Dr. Mitko Arnaudov and MA Pavle Nedić (IIPE) and Katerina Klimoska, LL.M. (Faculty of Philosophy, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius)
The project is being financially supported by the China-CEE Institute, Budapest
Serbia and Challenges in International Relations in 2022
The IIPE research team implements the ongoing project aimed at conducting research which includes phenomena and processes in the political, security, legal and economic level of international relations that determine the position of the Republic of Serbia in world politics and economy in 2022, with special reference to the new circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of the scientific research endeavor is directed towards finding practical political solutions to the indirect and medium-term international political, security, legal and economic challenges.
Project manager:
Dr Ivona Lađevac
The project is being financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Registration number of the Contract for project implementation:
451-03-68/2022-14/200041
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Serbia and Challenges in International Relations in 2020-2021
The IIPE research team implements the ongoing project aimed at conducting research on various new phenomena and processes emerging in international relations in the early 21st century that particularly may affect foreign policy of the Republic of Serbia in 2020 and 2021. This research project focuses on creating plausible policy responses to the immediate and medium-term global political, security, legal and economic challenges faced by domestic foreign policymakers.
Project managers:
Dr Srđan Korać (1 January 2021– 31 July 2021)
Dr Ivona Lađevac (1 August 2021– 31 December 2022)
The project is being financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Registration number of the Contract for project implementation:
451-03-68/2020-14/200041
451-03-9/2021-14/200041
Serbia in Contemporary International Relations
The IIPE research team implemented project “Serbia in Contemporary International Relations: Strategic Development and Firming the Position of Serbia in the Process of International Integration – Foreign Policy, Economic, Legal and Security Perspectives”, in period 2011-2019. This research project was one of the most important pillars of fundamental research activities in the field of international relations conducted by the Institute of International Politics and Economics.
The project was aimed at conducting research on changes and trends in international relations that gradually lead to transformation of the international community into a more integrated system for management of various global processes — from maintaining world peace and security to connecting national economies into a globalised system and building new legal regimes. The research embraced wide scope of inquiry including political, legal, military and security, economic, technological and social factors determining Serbia’s foreign policy, as well as its international legal, economic and security position in international relations. The focus was on theoretical and empirical studies of strategic level of foreign policy and the consolidation of Serbia’s international position in international integration in the medium term until 2015 and in the long term until 2030, respectively. Due to a plethora of plausible approaches in the study of the Serbia’s position in international relations, we divided the research project in six thematic fields: 1) Serbia in contemporary international relations; 2) Serbia in contemporary European surroundings; 3) Serbia in contemporary security surroundings; 4) Serbia in contemporary regional surroundings; 5) Serbia in contemporary economic surroundings; 6) Serbia in contemporary international legal order. The research project is designed to serve as a conceptual foundation of Serbia’s foreign policy based on an enhanced participation in global and regional politics, and progress towards EU accession.
The project manager was Dr Duško Dimitrijević.
The project was financially supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development.
The Project was registered under No. 179029.
Impact of the EU conditionality on minority rights and protection in Slovakia and Serbia
The Institute of International Politics and Economics implemented the joint project “Impact of the EU conditionality on minority rights and protection in Slovakia and Serbia” with Comenius University, Bratislava, from January 2011 to March 2013.
The project was aimed at examining the opportunities/limits that international organisations and other international actors have/face in promoting the international norms and standards of minority protection. The research was focused on comparative analysis of the minority policy implementation in Slovakia and Serbia, and how the EU conditionality policy impacts the decision of domestic political actors to comply or not to comply with international norms. These two countries were chosen as they constitute different cases with diverse interaction between domestic and international actors; Slovakia is one of the key examples of the success of the EU conditionality policy.
The project managers were Prof. Darina Malová and Dr Dragan Đukanović.
The project was funded by Ministry of Science of the Republic of Slovakia and Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia within the framework of bilateral programmes of academic cooperation.
Debating Serbiaʼs European Future: The voice of civil society in decision making
Тhe project “Debating Serbiaʼs European Future: The Voice of Civil Society in Decision- Making”, the IIPE launched in partnership with European Institute Foundation in July 2010. The project lasted for 12 months, and ended in April 2011. The main aim of the project was to involve the civil society organisations in Serbia into public debate over the EU integration process, as well as to improve their capacity to influence the formulation of public policy and decision making at local, national and international level through meaningful dialogue and advocacy. The main activities included: a research to identify topics for regional debate; a meeting on the findings of the research and a workshop in Sofia; development of a scenario, methodology and agenda for debates and information sessions; organisation of six regional information sessions followed by public debates in Vranje, Novi Sad, Čačak, Novi Pazar, Zrenjanin and Belgrade.
The project managers were Ivona Lađevac and Slobodan Janković.
The project was funded by the European Union under the “Strengthening Serbia-EU Civil Society Dialogue” project.
Serbia and the Contemporary World: Prospects and Ways of Consolidation of its Global Political, Security and Economic Position
The Institute of International Politics and Economics implemented the project “Serbia and the Contemporary World: Prospects and Ways of Consolidation of its Foreign Political, Security and Economic Position in the Contemporary Processes in the International Community” in period 2006-2010.
The project managers were Dr Pero Petrović and Dr Duško Dimitrijević.
The project was financially supported by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development.
The Project is registered under No 149002D.
Western Balkans: Regional Response to Visa Liberalization Issue
The project “Western Balkans: Regional Response to Visa Liberalization Issue” was jointly implemented by the Institute of International Politics and Economics, European Movement in Serbia (EminS) and Grouop 484 in 2006.
The project was aimed to support the reform of the Western Balkan countries on their road to adopting and implementing the EU standards, particularly in their efforts to join so called “White Schengen list”, as well as to further strengthen measures, activities, initiatives towards visa liberalisation that are already being launched or implemented in the region. The main project activities included conduct of a research and organisation of several international conferences.
The project manager was Prof. Vladimir Grečić.
The project was funded by the Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD).
Translation of the EU terminology
The IIPE was hired to provide professional translation of the European Union terminology, within the research programme on the EU. This project included translation, revision and printing of three publications: Eurovoc, ЕuroGlossary, and Eurojargon.
Eurovoc was published in 2006 as a multilingual thesaurus aimed at standarisation of translation to Serbian of terminology related to public policies of the then European Communities. It provided a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions. This documentation product was used by the European Parliament, the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, national and regional parliaments in Europe, national government departments and some European organisations. Eurovoc in the 11 official languages of the European Union. The European Commission granted the Institute for International Politics and Economics a licence to translate and publish online free of charge, as well as to provide hard copies for free distribution.
ЕuroGlossary with Eurojargon was published by the IIPE in 2005. ЕuroGlossary contains index in six European languages: Serbian, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. It also contains more than 250 lexicographical terms commonly used in everyday work of the EU institutions.
Publication can be downloaded here >>>
Guide to European Union Law
Guide to European Union Law was published by the IIPE in 2005. The Guide stemmed from the need to make available information about progress with a view to harmonising the Serbiaʼs legislation with acquis communautaire to the Serbian public and companies, and about future development trends of the EU law.
This project was supported by European Agency for Reconstruction and Development, the Office of Ministers Council of Serbia and Montenegro for European Union, the Serbian Ministry of Science, and the Open Society Foundation.
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Strategic Factors of Serbiaʼs Transition in the Context of Contemporary International Politics and Economy
The IIPE researchers conducted the project “Strategic Factors of Transition of Serbia in Contemporary International Political and Economy” between 2001 and 2005.
The aim of the project was to identify and explain the causes and consequences of major international processes relevant for the international position of Serbia, its socio-economic transformation and integration to the international courses.
The Project managers were Prof. Vladimir Grečić (2001–2004) and Prof. Zlatko Isaković (2005).