School of International Regional Studies

Publications

• Book

  Proroković D., Popović R., Vankovska B. et al.

  150 YEARS SINCE THE HERZEGOVINA UPRISING: impact on regional security and European geopolitics

  INTERNATIONAL Academic Conference 150 years since the Herzegovina Uprising:impact on regional security and European geopolitics (2025 ; Beograd) Conference Proceedings / International Academic Conference 150 years since the Herzegovina Uprising: impact on regional security and European geopolitics, June 10-11, 2025 [Belgrade] = Dušan Proroković, Draga Mastilović (Eds.). - Belgrade : Institute of International Politics and Economics, 2025 (Belgrade : DonatGraf). - 256 str. ; 24 cm

  Beograd: Institute of International Politics and Economics, 2025.

• Article

  Strelnikova I.

  Russia, China and India Partnership in the Arctic: Prospects and Opportunities for Cooperation

  The melting polar environment has amplified the strategic significance of the Arctic, transforming it into a theatre for both resource extraction and great power competition. Russia, India and China are increasingly seeking strategic partnerships and economic opportunities within this region. This article explores the evolving cooperation dynamics, opportunities and challenges for these three nations in Arctic energy development and logistics, specifically within the context of Western sanctions. The study identifies a developing cooperative paradigm driven by complementary resource and technology markets, despite obstacles such as technological bottlenecks and governance limitations. Data from 2024 indicate robust growth, with the Northern Sea Route (NSR) reaching a record cargo turnover of 37.9 million tonnes. The analysis concludes that although sanctions complicate logistics and payment mechanisms, they are unlikely to disrupt long-term bilateral and trilateral cooperation, given the strong market potential and political will among the three nations.

  India Quarterly. 2026. Vol. 82. No. 1. P. 45-63.

• Book chapter

  Entina E., Entin M.

  Qualitatively New Challenges, Encroachments, and Attacks on the Polycentric World Order and Their Logic

  With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, world politics and economics have entered a qualitatively new transformational period, initiating which the Presi dent, the American Administration, the Republican Party and the political forces behind them expect to reformat the modern world order to suit their unilateral in terests. What and how they do it today, in most cases, causes an extremely acute and predominantly negative reaction. It is all the more important to weigh and objectively assess, as is done in this article, not only the radically new elements in the greatly changed domestic and foreign policy of the United States and the reac tion to them of the allies, competitors and rivals of the United States, primarily the European Union and its Member States, but also the current state of world politics and economics and their inherent vices. At the same time, first of all, it should be remembered that the brotherhood in arms and the victory in World War II over Nazi Germany and Militaristic Japan created uniquely favorable conditions for a much more reliable and just world order, compared with all previous periods of world de velopment. Moscow made the most effective use of them, thanks to which it was possible to solve several interrelated tasks of enormous geopolitical importance, laying down the basic parameters of the future. The United Nations, having won the war, established a world security organization that cannot be used against any of the permanent members of its Security Council and legitimize aggression. At the San Francisco Conference, they adopted the UN Charter, which formed a meta-system of international law that rejects the use of armed force to achieve foreign policy goals, the violation of the sovereign equality of states, interference in the internal affairs of states, and the elevation of the violation of human rights and freedoms to an instrument for implementing state policy. Modern international law grew out of the UN Charter, and its development in full compliance with the UN Charter paved the way for achieving political decolonization of countries belonging to the Global Majority and the economic revival of such giants as China and India. Therefore, the attack on the United Nations, the UN Charter, and modern international law, which is being waged today by the United States, NATO, the EU, their Member States, and countries dependent on them, must be countered by a united front of friendly states. It is necessary to jointly replace political programs such as “this or that country Above all else” with a fundamentally different one: “human civilization and a normally functioning world economy that is beneficial to all countries Above all”.

  In bk.: Il grano e l'acqua. Sfide geopolitiche antiche, presenti e future-Wheat and water ancient, present and future geopolitical challenges. Ediz. bilingue. Vol. XIV. Iss. 2. Mediabooks, 2025. P. 401-468.

• Working paper

  Shein S., Ryzhkin E.

  Towards A Common Vision? Populist Radical Right Parties’ Positions On The Eu Common Foreign And Security Policy Towards Russia

  The growth of populism in the EU member states, as a large-scale internal challenge to the European integration project, has a projection on foreign policy of both national states and the European Union. The EU foreign policy, towards Russia, is the area where the deviation of populist programs and strategies from the positions of the mainstream is most clearly manifested. In this regard, it is necessary to determine the foreign policy orientations of the populist radical right parties of the EU member states regarding the EU foreign policy, towards Russia, and opportunities for their synchronization. The main conclusion of this research is that populist foreign policy orientations highlight the internal heterogeneity of the populist phenomenon. Populism in power and in opposition does not have the capacity to change the EU's foreign policy towards Russia. The nature of populism as an ideology, the instrumental use by right populists of the “theme of Russia” for “internal consumption”, and their mainstreaming in power are a significant barrier to the real challenge of the EU policy towards Russia

  Political Science. PS. Высшая школа экономики, 2022. No. 89.