Julija Brsakoska Bazerkoska has finished her PhD studies magna cum laude at Cologne University, Law Faculty in Germany. At present she is working as an Assistant Professor at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Law Faculty in Skopje, Macedonia, teaching International Relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU and Multilateral diplomacy. She was engaged as a researcher under the Curriculum Research Fellowship program at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She was also part of several EU funded projects within the Albanian Ministry of European Integration, the Skopje’s office of the Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea, as well as on several projects within the domestic NGO sector.