Vuk Vuksanović is a senior researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and an associate at LSE IDEAS; a foreign policy think tank within the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He got his PhD in international relations at the LSE on the Serbian balancing act between Russia and the West, which is converting into a book. His primary focus of research is on great power politics, primarily in the Balkans. He has written for academic and policy journals in the UK, the US and the EU. He is a regular commentator for Serbian and international media on Balkan and international affairs.