Институт за политичке студије

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(IV спрат)
11000 Београд

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ТЕМА - LAW AND POLITICS: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS, RELEVANCE AND IMPLICATIONS

LEO STRAUSS’S CRITIC OF MODERN NATURAL RIGHT CONCEPTS AND ITS CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE

This paper reviews Leo Strauss’s critique of modern natural right concepts and their contemporary relevance in the light of the crisis of modernity. The first part of the paper observes Strauss’s interpretative approach to classical political thought, whose main purpose was to rediscover classical wisdom for solving many theoretical and practical c...

RECIPROCITY AS A CONDITION FOR THE RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN COURT DECISIONS: POLITICAL-LEGAL ASPECT AND MODERN SIGNIFICANCE IN DOMESTIC AND COMPARATIVE LAW

This paper examines the institute of reciprocity as a condition for the recognition of foreign court decisions, with special reference to Serbian law and comparative legal trends, pointing out its political-legal significance in contemporary relations between states. Reciprocity is analyzed as a traditional mechanism for the protection of state sov...

NEW – OLD TRENDS IN THE FIELD OF CRIMINAL POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

The Draft Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of 2025 announces a significant reform of Serbia’s substantive criminal legislation. In addition to a series of newly introduced criminal offences – many of them controversial from a criminal policy standpoint – it also proposes a substantial tightening of sentencing ranges for certain offences. Driv...

BEST INTERESTS OF THE MIGRANT CHILDREN IN THE SYSTEM OF ASYLUM IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

In all the proceedings where the child appears as a party, the principle of the best interests of the child appears as the most general principle through which the child is protected. The following laws regulate the best interests of migrant children in the Republic of Serbia: Family Law, Law on Foreigners, Law on Asylum and Temporary Protection, a...

LOCAL COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIES IN SERBIA AS A FORM OF DIRECT CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT – BETWEEN TRADITION, REPRESENTATIVE AND DIRECT DEMOCRACY

The subject of this research is local community assemblies as forms of direct democracy in Serbia. The paper seeks to identify a correlation between the traditional forms of these assemblies and the development of local self-government and democracy. By using the doctrinal concepts of direct democracy and local self-government, as well as theoretic...

SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: BETWEEN THE DAYTON CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONISM

The constitutional crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) represents a complex case of legal and political destabilization in a post-conflict context. This paper analyzes the security implications of the constitutional crisis through the lens of internal political conflicts and international interventionism. It also highlights how the actions of in...

ТЕМА - ESSAYS AND STUDIES

KEY ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF THE TOTAL DEFENCE CONCEPT IMPLEMENTATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

The author analyses the key ethical challenges of implementing the concept of total defense in the Republic of Serbia, starting from the assumption that normatively unresolved dilemmas may undermine its functional and moral sustainability. After conceptually defining total defense as a model that entails the comprehensive participation of all socie...

GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

To understand the relation between globalization and international relations, it is necessary to propaedeutically differentiate notions of new world order, globalism, and globalization that are often used without much theoretical understanding, sometimes even as synonyms, which creates terminological confusion. These are three different terms that ...

ON THE SUPPRESSED TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SERBO-SLOVENIAN RELATIONS OR ON THE PROLOGUE TO THEIR CLOSENESS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

The text presents certain evidence of Slovenian–Serbian closeness during the Second World War, which, due to so-called higher interests – national/political/religious/ecclesiastical – has been neglected to such an extent that it now seems never to have existed. Thus, from the creation of communist/socialist Yugoslavia to the present day, Slovenia h...

POWER DIFFUSION AS THE THIRD DIMENSION OF COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE: CALIFORNIA AND OPENAI AS CASE STUDIES

This paper analyzes the diffusion of power as the third dimension of complex interdependence (the first dimension being military and the second economic), a concept developed and later refined by American scholars Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye. By examining diffusion, or the dispersal of power, as one of the phenomena of international relations, th...