Filip Ejdus

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences, Faculty Member

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Currently I am an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, at the University of Belgrade. My research and teaching experience are in the field of Security Studies with a geographic focus on the European Union, Western Balkans, Horn of Africa and Middle East. I am also the founder and co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Regional Security.

In addition to these academic interests I have been closely involved with policy community as a board president of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, board member of the Open Society Foundation in Serbia, academic coordinator at the Belgrade Security Forum and the co-chair of the Regional Stability in South East Europe Study Group at the PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.
Address: 11 Priory Rd. Bristol, BS8 1TU, United Kingdom
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International Relations (IR) in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav states

by Filip Ejdus and Marko Kovacevic

Journal of International Relations and Development, 2021

In this article, we study how the discipline of International Relations (IR) emerged in postwar s... more In this article, we study how the discipline of International Relations (IR) emerged in postwar socialist Yugoslavia and how it evolved during and after the Cold War with the disintegration of Yugoslavia. In particular, we show that IR emerged in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and throughout the Cold War developed as a Marxist-inspired endeavor in support of self-management socialism at home and non-alignment and active peaceful coexistence abroad. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, its IR community was fragmented along the national lines, disillusioned with Marxism and preoccupied with practical war efforts and state-building, which implied a close interest in statecraft, strategy, geopolitics and realism. Since the early 2000s, IR communities from the region have been reconnecting both with the post-Yugoslav area and keeping up with Western and global IR trends. This implied greater pluralism and diversity in approaches, focusing on post-conflict reconstruction and regional integration, and a gradual turn towards the liberal, critical and constructivist scholarship.

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Ontological Insecurity as an Emergent Phenomenon: Bottom Up Securitisation of Migration in Serbia

by Filip Ejdus and Tijana Recevic

European Psychologist, 2021

One of the central debates in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) has been about level-of-analysis... more One of the central debates in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) has been about level-of-analysis. While some authors focus on individuals, others have scaled up the concept and applied it to collectives such as states as the main ontological security seekers. In this article, we contribute to the level-of analysis debate in OSS by providing a novel argument in defense of scaling up. By drawing on the literatures on complexity and securitization we conceptualize ontological security as an emergent phenomenon. It arises from the ground-up and is driven by feedback loops in a non-linear and spontaneous fashion from horizontal micro-interactions and securitizations from below, ultimately reaching a tipping point. We illustrate this argument in a case study of anti-immigrant mobilization in Serbia since the outbreak of the European migration crisis (2015-2020). At the outset of the crisis, state officials interpreted the migration crisis as a manageable and temporary situation, adopted an "open door" policy and even banned far-right extremist demonstrations against migration. Over time, however, ontological insecurity over the migrant threat has gradually emerged from the bottom-up through a cascade of rumors, connective action and everyday securitizing acts. While it might be too early to conclude that the national tipping point has been reached, this case study clearly shows why ontological insecurity merits to be studied as an emergent phenomenon.

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