CIRSD

Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development
Centar za međunarodnu saradnju i održivi razvoj The Program on International Relations

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CIRSD is committed to help deepen the understanding of economic, social, environmental, legal and foreign policy choices of different States and international organizations. In pursuing its mission, CIRSD organizes its activities around three primary program areas:

1. The Program on Sustainable Development

3. The Program on International Law

08/06/2026

Be part of Horizons Forum!

Applications are open until June 10.

This June, Belgrade becomes a bridge between China and Europe.

We are looking for motivated students and young professionals to join the organizational and media volunteer teams of the Horizons | Sustainability and Connectivity Forum.

We welcome volunteers with strong English skills, team spirit, motivation, and an interest in international cooperation, global events, communications, and social media.

Apply now: scforum2026.com/volunteers

01/06/2026

Be part of Horizons Forum!

This June, Belgrade becomes a bridge between China and Europe.

We are looking for motivated students and young professionals to join the organizational and media volunteer teams of the Horizons | Sustainability and Connectivity Forum.

We welcome volunteers with strong English skills, team spirit, motivation, and an interest in international cooperation, global events, communications, and social media.

Apply now: scforum2026.com/volunteers

30/05/2026

From Serbia to the world.

For the past 12 years, the Belgrade-based Horizons — Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development — has brought together some of the world’s leading thinkers and decision-makers, creating a unique space for uncensored dialogue on politics, economics, technology, diplomacy and the future of the global order.

21/05/2026

AI is sold as weightless code. It is, in fact, one of the most physically ravenous technologies ever built, consuming the electricity of Japan today and on track to double that by 2030. It draws on cobalt from the Congo, chips from Taiwan, and discards its waste in Ghana. Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Founder and President of Women Political Leaders, argues that between America’s tech oligarchy and China’s state control, Europe is the only actor treating AI as the infrastructure it actually is. The future of AI’s environmental footprint, she contends, will not be decided in Silicon Valley or Beijing, but in Brussels.

15/05/2026

A decade ago, China made generics and copies. Today, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla warns that “every drug could be made in China,” U.S. firms are signing record-shattering licensing deals with Chinese biotechs, and a single Chinese antibody has beaten Keytruda head-to-head in a Phase 3 trial. Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, traces how a state-orchestrated regulatory overhaul, a 1.4-billion-person clinical trial advantage, and the sheer scale of biotech parks like Suzhou’s BioBAY rewrote the global pharmaceutical map. The harder question is whether Washington’s tariff-and-restrict response is protecting American leadership or accelerating its decline.

12/05/2026

Past energy shocks have always reshaped the world that followed them, and Henning Gloystein, Managing Director for Energy & Resources at Eurasia Group, argues this one will be no different—only larger. From Tokyo’s nuclear restarts to Berlin’s miscalculation on gas, from India’s coal dilemma to the UK’s return to the North Sea, every major economy is now confronting decisions it had hoped to defer. The knee-jerk responses will fade. The deeper restructuring, he warns, will not.

11/05/2026

Climate change does not pause for geopolitics, and the physical laws governing the atmosphere recognize no electoral cycles. Zhang Chuanwei, Founder and Chairman of Ming Yang Smart Energy Group, argues that energy security and energy transition are not rival priorities but mutually reinforcing ones, and that the renewable revolution has crossed from policy aspiration to commercial logic. Drawing on Ming Yang’s evolution into one of the world’s 3 largest wind turbine manufacturers, he sets out a vision of smart energy whose reach now extends across the planet.

08/05/2026

Three forces are now colliding to remake the world economy at its foundations: a globalization redrawn around the “Global Majority,” technologies that turn platforms into planners, and a demographic squeeze that breaks the post-war growth model. Maxim Oreshkin maps a new paradigm in which connector countries become strategic actors, algorithms quietly displace markets, and “fiscal cannibalism” forces aging societies to choose between the elderly and the future. The lasting question, he argues, is whether human beings remain independent decision-makers, or become managed participants in systems they no
longer see.

06/05/2026

In an era of trade wars and snapping supply chains, the UAE’s foreign trade minister argues that influence is no longer about size or dominance. It’s about the capacity to connect. With 35 Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements, $110 billion invested in Africa since 2019, and non-oil trade that just crossed $1 trillion, H.E. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi makes the case that the country wedged between Asia, Africa, and Europe has built a model the fractured global economy badly needs: partnership over positioning, connectivity over control.

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