From its founding, the Institute has been consistently working on the scientific study of processes and phenomena in the field of international politics and economics, thus creating a research basis for the definition the country's foreign policy priorities.

49/2006), the Institute came under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development (Law on Scientific Research, "Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia" No.

and 18/2010)[4] The Institute is realizing close cooperation with the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia.

[5] Projects The IIPE publishes four journals: The current director of the Institute of International Politics and Economics is prof. dr Branislav Đorđević.

[17] The directors of the Institute of International Politics and Economics in the previous period:[18] Milan BARTOŠ (1947–1949) Ivan KARAIVANOV (1949–1951) Vilko VINTERHALTER (1951) Radivoje DAVIDOVIĆ (1952–1953) Jovan MARINOVIĆ (1954–1955) Vlajko BEGOVIĆ (1955–1958) Janez STANOVNIK (1958–1962) Leo MATES (1962–1972) Milan ŠAHOVIĆ (1972–1977) Božidar FRANGEŠ (1977–1985) Milan ŠAHOVIĆ (1985–1988) Jokica HADŽI VASILEVA (1988–1989) Predrag SIMIĆ (1989–1997) Milenko KREĆA (1997–2000) Vatroslav VEKARIĆ (2000–2005) Aleksandar FATIĆ (2005–2006) Edita STOJIĆ-KARANOVIĆ (2007–2008) Duško DIMITRIJEVIĆ (2009–2014) Branislav ĐORĐEVIĆ (2015-)