Stevan Gajić PhD (Political Science) is a researcher at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade and a visiting professor at MGIMO University in Moscow.  The areas of his academic expertise are American political thought (In 2020 he published a book From Slave to Citizen – The African-American Struggle for the Recognition of Humanity), European studies (especially the politics in central and eastern Europe and the Balkans), and Russian and post-Soviet politics and international relations. In 2023 he published his second book, this time in Russian language titled We Are from the Future – Serbian View of Russian Space from Euromaidan to SMO. His field of expertise is in political science, diplomacy, history and geo-politics.