Faculty & Staff

Srdjan Uljevic

Assistant Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

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Srdjan Uljevic is an Assistant Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the American University of Central Asia. He holds a Master of Social Sciences (by Research) in International Relations from the National University of Singapore (2014), a Master in Contemporary China Studies from Renmin University of China (2009), a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University (2005, Hungary). He is pursuing a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Brussels School of International Relations, University of Kent, on relations between India and Russia.

Srdjan joined AUCA in 2017, where he taught at the School of Entrepreneurship and Business Administration (SEBA) and the International and Comparative Politics (ICP) department. His prior teaching experiences include the National University of Singapore and the Technical University of Munich Asia (TUM Asia). Srdjan currently teaches the First and Second Year Seminars.

Honorary membership in the Association for Nature, Environment, and Sustainable Development Sunce, Croatia, November 2023

Foreign relations of China, India, and Eurasian geopolitics
Social Identity Theory and Constructivism
US grand strategy and the Indo-Pacific

Book chapters:

India’s Engagement with Central Asia and Competition with China in a Multipolar World Order 2.0. Routledge’s Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations, to be published in 2024.
Climate Change from a Security Perspective. Security from Whom, for Whom? Contributions to the Discussion on the Security Policy of the Republic of Croatia, Heinrich Boll Foundation Croatia (Nov 2009).

Policy briefs:

India's Relations with China after Galwan, The OSCE Academy (Nov 2020).
Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Goals in Asia through the South China Sea Disputes, The Institute for Development and International Relations (Dec 2016).

Commentaries:

Why the unrest in Kazakhstan bothers China, EurasiaNet (Jan 2022)
Taliban’s triumph threatens Beijing’s Eurasia plans, EurasiaNet (Aug 2021)
Xi’an meeting marks a new chapter for China in Central Asia, EurasiaNet (May 2021)
China’s Central Asia strategy in the age of ‘extreme competition’, EurasiaNet (Mar 2021)
Among friends: China’s new, exclusive multilateralism, EurasiaNet (Feb 2021)
The BRI is not at the end of the road, EurasiaNet (Dec 2020)
What happened to China’s ‘peaceful rise’?, EurasiaNet (Nov 2020)
Witnessing the limits of Chinese power in Kyrgyzstan, EurasiaNet (Oct 2020)
What’s Cooking in Cancun? [Analysis of the COP 16], H-alter.org (Nov 2010)

China’s Foreign Policy
Comics and Politics
First Year Seminar