Ana Nikodinovska Krstevska, associate professor in EU Law and EU Foreign Policy and Head of Department of International Relations and EU Law at the Faculty of Law, University Goce Delcev – Stip. Nikodinovska Krstevska has finished BA and MA studies in Italy (Orientale – Napoli and Alma Mater – Bologna), and she has attained her PhD in Studies for European integrations at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. She is a coordinator for the University Goce Delcev – Stip in two Jean Monnet projects, Migration and Asylum Policies Systems – MAPS and New European Borders – BORDEURS. She is also the coordinator of the activities for the Goce Delcev University in the Module Jean Monnet EU – Western Balkans: Cooperation on Justice and Home Affairs. Her current research is focused on European asylum and migration policies vis-à-vis national approaches of Western Balkan states, with specific accent to cooperation in migration, prevention, and combat of illegal migration, outsourcing and externalization of European security towards third countries.