Education and Work Experience

• 09/2024 to present: Postdoctoral Researcher, ReGlobe project, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 09/2020-10/2024: PhD Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin / SCRIPTS
• 09/2018-05/2019: Research Assistant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 09/2017-08/2018: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, MSc Political Science - International Relations and Transnational Governance (cum laude)
• 10/2011-06/2016: University of Ljubljana, Bachelor of Arts in International Relations
• 09/2014-06/2015: Bilkent University Ankara, Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Erasmus+ student exchange

Academic Appointments, Scientific Activities & Outreach

• 09/2018-05/2019: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, FSW, Political Science department, Research Assistant

Fellowships, Stipends and Awards

• 2021-2023 Oxford Grant for the project ‘Europe in a Changing World’, SCRIPTS & WZB in cooperation with Dahrendorf Programme at the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford
• 09/2017-08/2018: Ad Futura scholarship – The Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia

Research Interests

• International Relations
• European Foreign Policy
• Transatlantic Relations
• Think-Tanks
• Critical Political Economy
• European Integration

• Couvreur, S & Veselinovič, J 2025, An Evermore Geoeconomic European Union? Exploring Critical Perspectives for Future Research, Journal of Common Market Studies: 1–18.
• van Apeldoorn, B Veselinovič, Z & de Graaff. N 2023, “Trump and the Crisis of American Elite Power: From Globalism to Nationalism in US Foreign Policy”. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Veselinovič, J 2025, From “Strategic Indispensability” to “Comprehensive Offers”. Mapping Proposals for EU’s Offensive Geoeconomic Turn, The International Spectator: 1–21.
• Veselinovič, J 2024, A knowledge regime fit for geoeconomics? The changing production, consumption, and practices of policy knowledge in the EU, European Foreign Affairs Review 29(2): 177–204.
• Veselinovič, J 2022, 'European Foreign Policy Think Tanks and ‘Strategic Autonomy’: Making Sense of the EU’s Role in the World of Geoeconomics. In: Babić, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I.T. (eds) The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. International Political Economy Series, pp. 81-106.
• Veselinovič, J 2017, 'Neorealizem in marksistična kritika (Neorealism and Marxist Critique)', Družboslovne Razprave, vol. 33 no. 86, pp. 63-81.
• Veselinovič, J & Zupan, Ž 2017, 'Siriza in Oktober: periferija in nadnacionalno povezovanje levice (Syriza and October: periphery and supranational leftist integration)', Časopis za kritiko znanosti, vol. 45, no.  269, pp. 290–303.

Media

• Veselinovič, J., 2021, Interview, Video-Series “Faces of SCRIPTS”, Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, 2021. Available from: https://youtu.be/3URNytSMcJ4.