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Filip Ejdus is an Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, at the University of Belgrade. In his academic research, he studies how identity, memory, emotions and rationality affect security policy and international interventions. He also specializes in security sector reform, defence policy, civil-military relations and EU as a global actor. The geographic focus of his interests are the Western Balkans, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. His most recent book is Crisis and Ontological Insecurity: Serbia's Anxiety over Kosovo’s Secession (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He is also the founder and co-Editor in Chief of Journal of Regional Security. In addition to these academic interests Filip has been closely involved with public policy as a board president of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, 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.  Filip obtained his BA and PhD at the Faculty of Political Science, joint master degree at the LSE and Sciences Po Paris and was a Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bristol.