Filip Ejdus is a professor of security studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. In his academic research, he explores how identity, emotions, and memory influence international security. Geographically, his research interests focus on the Western Balkans, the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East. In his studies of public policies, he has dealt with democratic governance, security sector reform, conventional arms control, EU security policy, etc. He has published numerous papers in scientific journals in the fields of political science, international relations, and security studies. His latest book is "International Security: Theories, Sectors, and Levels" (Clio, 2024). For his book "Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia’s Anxiety Over Kosovo’s Secession" (Palgrave 2020), he received the Veselin Lučić Award from the University of Belgrade. He is also the founder and co-editor of the Journal of Regional Security.
In addition to these academic interests, Filip Ejdus is the President of the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA), a member of the Board of Directors of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCBP), and co-chair of the Regional Study Group for Stability in Southeast Europe at the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes.
Filip graduated and obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations and Security from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. He also holds master's degrees in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). As a recipient of the prestigious Marie Curie Award, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bristol.