Research Fellow
Nenad Stekić has been working at the Institute of International Politics and Economics since July 2018, and as of January 2020 within the Regional Centre “Belt and Road”. His academic interests include the People’s Republic of China’s security strategy, regional security dynamics of Southeast Asia, and the effects of interstate armed conflicts on contemporary defence arrangements and political regimes.
He obtained the PhD title from the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Security Studies, where he defended his dissertation “Military Interventions and Post-Conflict State Building in the Unipolar Era: The Cases of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq”. He worked as a teaching aide in the courses of International Relations and Political System throughout his MA studies at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Security Studies. As of 2021 he serves as an external consultant for the Varieties of Democracy Institute (University of Gothenburg), where he evaluates the quality of political regimes for the V-Dem Data project.
He authored the monograph “A Hesitant Hegemon: Layers of China’s Contemporary Security Policy”, published by the IIPE. In addition, Nenad is the co-editor of several thematic proceedings and has authored over thirty scientific articles and book reviews in academic journals. He has presented the results of his research within several national and international academic conferences, in addition to numerous seminars and study trainings which he attended.
Within the IIPE’s Regional Centre “Belt and Road” he is engaged in organising annual international academic conference under the format “Dialogues on China”.
As of January 2023, he got appointed as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal “The Review of International Affairs”.
He is fluent in English and is actively learning Chinese language.
A summary of his published studies may be found here.
Participation in projects:
Contributing to Modern Partnerships: Assessments of Sino-EU-Serbian Relations – COMPASS (Fund for Science of the Republic of Serbia, No. 7294, implementation period: 2023-2025)
nenad.stekic@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nenad-Stekic
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