Ceo intervjuje je dostupan ovde https://radar.nova.rs/politika/filip-ejdus-intervju-radar-vlast-belorusija/
Intervju NIN novembar 2024
ceo Tekst intervjua dostupan je ovder https://www.nin.rs/drustvo/vesti/61024/filip-ejdus-za-nin-srbija-je-spin-diktatura-u-kojoj-se-vlada-pomocu-izvrtanja-cinjenica
Towards the existentialist turn in IR: introduction to the symposium on anxiety (co-authored with Jelena Subotić)
This symposium is a follow-up to the 2019 CEEISA/ISA conference ‘International Relations in the Age of Anxiety’ held at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in June 2019. The central piece in the symposium is the keynote address by Bahar Rumelili on the untapped potential of existentialism in IR followed by highly engaged responses by Felix Berenskötter, Karl Gustafsson, Brent Steele and Andreja Zevnik. In this introduction we first describe the context in which we organised the conference and our motivations to choose the topic of the age of anxiety. We also reflect on how the global pandemic, which erupted in January 2020, made our topic more relevant than ever before. We then briefly introduce each piece and discuss what we see as the key questions they raise.
Geo-Power-EU
GEO-POWER-EU’s main objective is to contribute to the empowerment of the EU to manage security threats within the deteriorating geopolitical environment that lies in its Eastern Neighbourhood and in the Western Balkans. The project’s main goal is to articulate a proposal for a comprehensive EU strategy towards these regions that will employ new and reformed means and policy instruments, taking into consideration foresight concerning the strategic ambitions of other geopolitical actors.
Geo-Power-EU is funded by Horizon Europe and implemented by an international consortium led by University of the Peloponnese. To learn more about the project please visit: https://geo-power.eu/
Monitoring and Indexing Peace and Security in the Western Balkans
MIND project aims to bust the myths about the Western Balkans as a perpetual “powder keg” and to provide local and contextual knowledge about security cooperation and peace dynamics in the region.
The project is funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia and implemented by a consortium of partners led by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade.
As part of this project and leader of WP4 I aim to gain a deeper understanding of the legal, political and economic aspects of the process of international recognition and recognition of Kosovo. In addition, we created a complete, publicly available and attractively visualized database of this process. The database is available here:https://statusofkosovo.info/
More information about the project https://mindproject.ac.rs/
Object-cause of desire and ontological security: evidence from Serbia’s opposition to Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO
Marina Vulović and Filip Ejdus
The traditional Laing–Giddens paradigm views ontological insecurity as an unusual mental state triggered by critical situations and characterized by feelings of anxiety, disorientation and paralysis. However, theories inspired by Lacan suggest a different perspective, stating that ontological insecurity is not an exception but rather a regular state of mind. Similarly, ontological security is a fantasy stemming from the desire to fill the primordial lack, thus fuelling agency. While these Lacanian interpretations have introduced a fresh viewpoint into Ontological Security Studies (OSS), they have not fully incorporated one of the key concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis – the object-cause of desire (French: objet petit a) – into international relations theory. In this article, we present a framework of how to conceptualize and empirically study the objects-cause of desire in world politics. Our arguments are exemplified in a case study of Serbia’s resistance to Kosovo’s UNESCO membership in 2015.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-theory/article/objectcause-of-desire-and-ontological-security-evidence-from-serbias-opposition-to-kosovos-membership-in-unesco/389753787C17902C1E82841B0CC881FB
Crypto-Atlanticism: The untold preferences of policy elites in neutral and non-aligned states
Filip Ejdus and Catherine Hoeffler
The existing scholarship shows that neutral and non-aligned countries in Europe closely and often covertly engage with NATO despite their official posture. However, we lack comparative insights into how this phenomenon plays out in various countries. To understand this phenomenon of crypto-Atlanticism (CA) better we develop a framework to capture variations depending on the strength of elites’ Atlanticist preferences and their perceptions of public opinion’s preferences for neutrality. We illustrate our framework with evidence from twenty-four interviews with policy elites from Austria, Serbia and Sweden conducted between 2020 and 2022. Our findings show that elites exhibited various forms of CA: while the strength of Atlanticism is stronger in Austria and Sweden than in Serbia, the degree of restriction in publicly expressing these preferences was less restrained in Sweden than in Austria and Serbia. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of our findings for the theory and practice of military neutrality.
Download free copy here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9RVGRPBTM72MAHPXXAXN/full?target=10.1080/13523260.2023.2289329
Ontological security and the politics of memory in international relations
One of the central insights in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) has been that agents seek biographical continuity and a sense of stable and healthy sense. Even though remembering plays a significant part in this process, the politics of memory has not been at the centre of ontological security scholarship. This chapter aims to fill this gap. Drawing on the existing scholarship in OSS, it shows how and why collective agents use memory politics to underpin their ontological security. Furthermore, the chapter posits that the politics of memory can have both generative, degenerative, preventive, and restorative effects on ontological security seeking in world politics. Finally, the chapter systematises the existing literature on different forms of memory politics involved in ontological security along a securitisation/desecuritisation continuum. In conclusion, the chapter discusses the broader relevance of these insights and suggests ideas on how to move forward this exciting research agenda lying at the intersection of OSS and memory studies.
ISA 2023 Annual Convention – March 15th – 18th, 2023
On 15-18 March I participated in the ISA Annual Convention held in Montreal. Nemanja Dzuverovic and I put together a roundtable on Stories of Failures: How IR Scholars Epically Failed – and Thrived, which was a great fun. I also presented on: “Displacement, materiality and ontological security: The case of North Kosovo” with Marina Vulovic (University of Helsinki) and “How We Adapted Hedgemony to Predict Scenarios of Great Power PoliƟcs in the Western Balkans” with Djordje Krivokapić (Faculty of Organisational Science, University of Belgrade).
Full program is available here: http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/ISA2023-s/Montreal%202023%20-%20Full%20Program.pdf