On Monday, December 1, 2025, the Faculty of Security Studies, together with the School of Political Science and International Relations of Tongji University (Shanghai, China), organized a one-day International Student Forum on the topic “Evolution of International Order and Global/Regional Governance”. At the forum, fifteen masters and doctoral students from Tongji University, as well as eight masters students from the Faculty of Security Studies, presented their research in the field of international security, geopolitics and strategic studies.
At the opening of the conference, introductory remarks were given by Professor Zhong Zhenming, Vice Dean of the School of Political Science and International Relations, and Professor Mladen Milošević, Dean of the Faculty of Security. Welcoming the initiative to organize an international forum where master and doctoral students from different countries will be able to exchange their views, the Dean and Vice-Dean emphasized that in light of the profound changes in the global landscape, young researchers should intensify dialogue, join forces and contribute to the development of just global and regional governance.
The forum was organized into four panels dedicated to global governance, the European Union and the United States, the Balkans and other regions of the world, covering both the strategies of great powers in the current evolution of the international order – such as China, the United States and the European Union, as well as regional powers and small states – from Mexico, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Balkan states. After the end of the panels, professors of the School of Political Science and International Relations – Prof. Dr. Song Lilei and Prof. Dr. Cheng Yu, as well as professors of the Faculty of Security – Prof. Dr. Vladimir Eisenhamer and Assoc. Dr. Mihajlo Kopanja provided reflections on students’ presentations, concluding that the practice of holding the International Student Forum should become an annual tradition.
