Jaša Veselinovič is a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working as part of the REGLOBE project on geopolitical drivers of the EU’s attempts at derisking and decoupling from China in several technological spheres. He is interested in the coalitional dynamics and social purpose of strategy-making in the EU and how these are conditioned by and transforming the global and national political economies and geopolitics. His broader research interests include critical international political economy, geopolitics and geoeconomics, elite politics, foreign policy-making, think tanks, and the EU. 

He graduated in International Relations from the University of Ljubljana and got his MSc in Political Science(cum laude) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In December 2024, he defended his PhD in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin (summa cum laude). In his thesis entitled “European foreign policy think tanks and the “career” of strategic autonomy” he examined the role of European foreign policy think tanks and their influence on European Union foreign policy, focusing on the debates around strategic autonomy and how they came to inform the EU’s “geoeconomic turn”. 

He has published in the European Foreign Affairs Review and co-authored a book titled “Trump and the Remaking of American Grand Strategy: The Shift from Open Door Globalism to Economic Nationalism” (with Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Nana de Graaff).