Speaker
Description
Current international relations are facing with the chapter characterized with so-called war public discourses, as well as decision-making processes which are erasing the international infrastructure based on the rule of law. In such context, so-called big powers have adapted to realist thougths about the functioning of the international system, while small, especially weak states are still de facto "shocked", without effective resources and protection in such circumstances. On that basis, the research question of the paper would be: What the small and weak states do have in "their hands" in performing effective foreign policy in current chapter of international relations? The research would be based on to confronation between classical realism and neoclassical realism, thus putting accent on the personal relations dimension between state representatives in the process of perfoming foreign policy versus the possibilities of rational cooperation between "big ones" and "small ones". In practical sense, the paper would serve in understanding the "mounevering space" that small and weak states have in the possibilities for strategic cooperation with big powers, thus securing sustainability on the shelter seeking basis. Western Balkans states will be used as an empirical examples due to different foreign policy approaches of the mentioned group of entities, as well as their characteristics which classifie them to the group of small and weak.
| If you are submitting an Open Panel proposal, have you included all four abstracts in attachment? | No, I am submitting a Closed Panel abstract |
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| Would you like to be considered for travel funding through the NetSec COST Action? | Yes |
| Are you a member of the NetSec Management Committee? | No |
| What discipline or branch of humanities or social sciences do you identify yourself with? | International relations |
| Which of the following best describes your stage of the career? | Assistant Professor |
| In which country is your home institution? | Serbia |
| What is your gender? | Male |