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Zoran R. Pešić

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Miloš Vukelić

Adequate analysis of the struggle of intelligence services against terrorist organizations requires an approach based on the methods and means of action of intelligence institutions. Terrorism is among the most represented security threats in the media and in public discourse. The increasing brutality of terrorist groups and organizations, the frequent mention in the public and the viralit...

Milovan Trbojević

The paper indicates the position of refugee children and children of internally displaced persons in order to gain a better insight into the actual position of these two highly marginalized groups, with the aspiration for greater visibility in society, social engagement and social attention. Bearing in mind that in the case of these two groups, all aspects of life as a who...

Milica M. Marjanović

The business of political parties in all countries of the world in the modern era should be legally regulated. However, the financial side of the business of all parties is something that has always attracted attention. Accordingly, cash flows are constantly being checked, as well as the resulting deficit. However, it must be confirmed that there are also a number of parties ...

Hayet Abdallah

In this paper, we will consider the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina held on October 2, 2022, and the changes in the electoral legislation that came about by the decision of the so-called High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kristijan Šmit, on election night, based on the so-called "Bonn Powers". The main intention of these measures was to unfreeze and speed up the pr...

Marko Mijatović

The trial on the International Military Tribunal after World War II represents undoubtedly a touchstone both in legal history and in the history of civilization in general. Among 24 defendants selected in the different kinds of Nazi officials, the case of Julius Streicher is very specific. The main feature of his case is the fact that he was the unique Nazi official who was indicted and co...

MA Dušan Gujaničić

Extremism as a social phenomenon is extremely dynamic – it is conditioned not only by time and space, but also by a constellation of different socio-political relationships. The paper deals with the analysis of the most important trends in contemporary forms of extremism, with a special focus on existing security challenges. The author first elaborated all the controversies that are rela...

Dr. Marija Đorić, Assistant Director for Scientific Research

This paper analyzes the activities of jihadists in the region commonly referred to as the “Black Continent”. The authors provide an analysis of the development of jihadist ideology across the world, followed by a closer examination of its specific manifestations in sub-Saharan Africa. This research study utilized a model originally developed by Geoffrey Predmore in 201...

Marko Filijovic

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Dr. Ivan Matić

A REVIEW OF HENRY KISSINGER’S BOOK...

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The key characteristic of international relations is their anarchy and in modern conditions this is manifested by the continuous performance of psychological-propaganda operations (PsyOp) by some actors against others. PsyOp represent the first stage in the preparation and implementation of a hybrid war, but they can also be an end in themselves. Over time, they have become an indispensabl...

Dušan Proroković

Today, the rapid development of the fourth industrial revolution and the emergence of the latest digital technologies leads to the gradual creation of a fundamentally new “socio-technological” reality – a metaverse that will permeate all levels of society and human existence: socio-social relations, economics, political processes, thus influencing the psychology of h...

Evgeny Pashentsev

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict, with its geopolitical importance, goes beyond regional borders, which is why it is inevitable that we talk about it as a conflict of global proportions. The direct and/or indirect involvement of numerous countries of the world in this conflict, especially in the form of military-technical, technological, economic and economic involvement, confirms the above. T...

Dr. Marija Đorić, Assistant Director for Scientific Research

Artificial intelligence is making rapid strides, and trying to predict its limits is an uncertain endeavor. While it opens up significant opportunities, it also presents challenges. AI has the potential to greatly enhance military capabilities, acting as a force multiplier. Military applications of AI can confer a competitive edge by expediting decision-making, revolutioni...

Milan Miljković

In this decade we are witnesses and even actors of the establishment of a new technology, which has the power to change psychological realities, but especially in the sphere of politics and economics. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence – or more precisely the huge leap that this technology has made in recent years – has brought a series of relevant ...

Marius Vacarelu

The study of coups d’état emerged and reached its peak during the second half of the 20^th century, coinciding with the global Cold War and centring around examination of coup activities occurring predominantly in African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries. This interest was predominantly focused of description of the phenomenon, as w...

Tanja (Milošević) Kazić

This paper will provide an overview and critically examine the underlying political, cultural and philosophical dimensions of artificial intelligence through the analysis of current theoretical variants of the idea of humanism: from posthumanism and transhumanism, through antihumanism to digital humanism. At the same time, the concept of digital humanism is favored, wh...

Dr. Đorđe Stojanović

The aim of the paper is to present the effectiveness of the mechanisms used so far to prevent violence and unsuitable behaviour at sports events, contained in the international legal framework and national legislation, and which arose from the practice of opposing this form of violence in certain countries of Western Europe. International cooperation in the field of criminal-legal protecti...

Nemanja Stevanović

BOOK REVIEW

Радојица Лазић. 2023. Контрола служби безбедности у Србији (измењено и допуњено издање). Београд: Службени гласник / Факултет за дипломатију �...

Jelena Božinova

The subject of this paper is a thorough consideration of the concept of liberty. The starting point is Berlin’s distinction between positive and negative understanding of liberty. In this sense, Berlin’s definition of positive and negative liberty is presented first, as well as the reasons on the basis of ...

Dr. Višnja Stojadinović

The central interest of this paper is the investigation of the phenomenon of national identity from the point of view of its constructional character. With this aim, a synthetic presentation of key modern and postmodern theoretical starting points and ideas that support this line of his conceptualization is given first. Instrumentalist approaches to national identity are observed, which tr...

Dr. Milena Pešić

This paper explores the strategies employed by Serbian students studying in Vienna in negotiating their ethnic identity. Negotiation strategies are defined as the processes through which individuals reconcile their internal understanding of ethnicity with external definitions. This involves examining the extent of alignment between these two perceptions and the mechanisms imm...

Vladan Vidicki

Serbia and Russia are countries that share a long and complex history of political, economic, and cultural ties. Their relations became even more intricate following the outbreak of the crisis in Ukraine, leading to various implications for broader international relations and, consequently, for the relations between the two states. The confrontation between Russia and the West has presente...

Dragan Trailović

In the course of more than two decades since the introduction of Religious Education into the Serbian school system, there has been a scientific and social need to check the attitudes of current students regarding its status, the applied model and the impact of attending Religious Education on the formation of attitudes on certain social issues, about which churches and re...

Uroš V. Šuvaković

The aim of the work is to analyze a total of 96 caricatures by the author Predrag Koraksić Corax. All of them are dedicated to the Serbian Orthodox Church, in the context of the messages that the author would like to send and the reactions of the recipients. In the paper are analyzed the terms of satire and caricature, freedom of speech and expression and hate speech. The importance of th...

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In this paper author wishes to explore and investigate the relationship between form and meaning in contemporary militaries, aiming to identify the phenomena of form not reaching the threshold of meaning and form which breaks its own ceiling. Relying on methods of conceptual analysis, comparative analysis, content analysis, deduction and other scientific methods, the autho...

Dragan Stanar

This research is an attempt to review and analyze the available literature and documentation in order to get insight into involvement of the Serbian Armed Forces in European Union missions and operations, since at the moment the Republic of Serbia engages exclusively military capacities in three European Union missions and operations. Our officers and military doctors represent a significant and visible contribution to the implementation of the European Union Comm...

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Ivana Gačić

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MA Bojana Sekulić

Noticing the inequalities between the position of pregnant women and new mothers working outside the employment relationship or entered into an employment contract with the employer, we have chosen as the subject of this paper to describe the possibility of adopting the proposed amendments to the Law on Financial Support for Families with Children. These are the Law on Health Insurance and...

Bojana Dimitrijevic

The survey was conducted to determine the association between personality traits HEXACO, psychopathic traits, family risk factors and dimensions of criminal behavior among juvenile offenders. The survey was conducted during October 2015 in the territory of Serbia, the Juvenile Correctional Facility in Kruševac. The research was done on a sample of 100 respondents, male, a...

Meri Z. Stojković

The Roma population, in disproportionately larger numbers compared to the general population, faces multiple forms of marginalization, including economic, educational, spatial, and cultural marginalization. The focus of this research is on the field of education, as a key tool for breaking the cycle of social vulnerability. It is done by considering the available support m...

Milica Stojanović

The social protection system is aimed at exercising the rights of vulnerable groups in an exceptional, timely and efficient manner. Differences in the individual characteristics of beneficiaries and their families have necessitated the expansion of the range of services within the social protection system. The involvement of social protection institutions in the city of Ni...

Vera Petrović

The paper problematizes the understanding of the concept of imperialism in the current conjuncture, which is significantly determined by the Ukrainian crisis. In particular, the position of some of the leading left-wing intellectuals is criticized, with the claim that they omit the meaning that imperialism had in classical Marxist theory, as well as structural unequal power relations and u...

Aleksandar Korolija

In order to know the nature of an ideal, it is necessary to know its origin and historical development – intellectual and social. Nationality is a cultural phenomenon. It is not tied to ideologies but to the cultural systems within which it arose and against which it arose. And these are, first of all, Roman Catholic universalism and dynastic kingdom.

Climate change has induced global warming, which resulted in the rapid melting of the northern ice cap in the last decade and a half. In addition to allowing the vast resources stored in the area to eventually become available for exploitation, it also made the northern borders of the Arctic coastal states exposed to potential attack. Aware of this, Russia, the United Stat...

Marko Filijovic

In this paper, we counter a set of interconnected claims: that the thesis stating the Serbs are indigenous to the Balkans is incompatible with Christianity, that it is a source and a carrier of heresy and paganism, and that it, as such, represents a threat to the national security of the Serbian people, because it attacks the Christian foundation of the Serbian identity. These claims were ...

Dr. Jelena Miljković Matić

The meta-legal basis of the provincial autonomy of Vojvodina appeared in political form only after the state fusion in 1918. A cross-analysis of the material on Vojvodina political autonomism points to its origin in the historical law of the Habsburg Empire, which was accepted by a group of few political outsiders and landowners of Vojvodina. The new modern state effective...

Dušan Kovačev

The paper aims to show the possibilities and perspectives of improving Serbian-Albanian relations through the establishment of the “Open Balkans” project. Confrontation policies enabled the creation of inter-ethnic intolerance and provided support to political elites, leading these societies in the direction of conflicts and rejection of mutual cooperation. In the era when Serbia and A...

Marko Stankovic

Јован Јањић. 2023. Историја у логору. Рехабилитовање НДХ умањивањем броја жртава у Јасеновцу. Београд: Фондација „За српски народ и државу”, стр. 153. 

Dr. Sanja Stošić

Srđan Perišić. 2022. Geopolitika i Srbi. Beograd: Filip Višnjić, str. 277...

МА Savo Simić

Review of the book by Joseph Nye Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. - New York>Oxford University Press, 2020...

Zoran R. Pešić

In this text author used an analytical-synthetic method to present directions for proving the source of Serbian identity on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija or „Old Serbia”, as was the name of this territory in the past. The author presented various sources to prove the antiquity of the Serbian Patriarchy of Pec and the formation of the territory of Kosovo and Metohij...

Dr. Sanja Šuljagić

State and local governments in e-tools have important instruments of quality management and the creation and implementation of sectoral policies. Smart city projects provide excellent services to citizens, increase the transparency and accountability of authorities, as well as citizens' satisfaction with services.

The practice of political representatives trying to provide benefits to voters in their local communities is not new. The phenomenon is most often operationalized through financing of public works, projects, subsidies, direct transfers or social benefits, provided in order to increase the political ratings and ultimately ensure reelection. Although the practice is more pronounced in candid...

Dušan Vučićević

The paper analyzes the institutional mechanisms of youth participation in the creation and implementation of public policies, with a focus on the local level. The paper highlights the importance of young people’s social capital for the development of a healthy and sustainable community. Through active parti...

Dejan Milenković

European experiences indicate numerous forms of inter-municipal cooperation, ranging from simpler forms aimed at more efficient and rational management (such as joint local public enterprises or shared administrations) to integrative forms where inter-municipal unions are formed, possessing legal subjectivity and their own governance structure (union assembly, president, b...

Veran Stančetić

In this paper, the author will examine the influence of the electoral system at the local level and the party system with a hegemonic or (pre)dominant party on the development of local political leadership. The main point is that Serbia is going through a crisis in the development of local leadership (and local democracy) as a consequence of centralization of political dec...

Bojan Klačar

The subject of this paper is the institutions of direct democracy at the local level in Serbia, with the aim of analyzing valid solutions (de lege lata) and improving the legal framework (de lege ferenda). The author starts from the thesis that local democracy is an ambiguous and imprecise term. In a broader sense, it represents the right of citizens to participate in gov...

Dr. Mijodrag Radojević

During the last few decades, the reluctance to take significant steps in the reform of territorial organization and local self-government system in Serbia had an adverse effect on both small and underdeveloped, as well as large and economically more developed municipalities and towns. In this paper, the author's intention is to show that the constitutional and legal position of the City of...

Jelena D. Jerinić

Diplomacy represents the first line of promotion and defense of national interests and one of the sources of power, alongside with military, economic, information and other forms of power. The importance and complexity of diplomacy for Serbia in the contemporary international relations are perhaps most evident in terms of deterrence when a major war is being waged on European soil, which w...

Veljko Blagojević

The topic of this work refers to the examination of the influence of great powers on the national interests of the Republic of Serbia for the purpose of analysing the strategic environment that precedes the definition of a deterrence strategy under conditions of military neutrality. National interests are best understood as fundamental and enduring needs, desires, or strea...

Sandra Božić

Numerous wars and armed conflicts have been waged for the last hundred years worldwide. They have resulted in the deaths and injuries of the civilian population, as well as the destruction of cities, villages, settlements, economic facilities and other infrastructure. Unfortunately, wars and armed conflicts continue in various parts of the world, and more and more people are killed which a...

Jelenа Đ. Lopičić Jančić

The daycare service for children with behavioral problems is one of the services in social care that are based on an ecosystem approach and user participation, and that develop cooperation between all actors and systems in the community and pluralism of services. Ten years ago, there were several active day care centers for children and youth with behavioral problems (in Novi Sad, Kraguje...

Miona Gajić

The paper is examining Nietzsche’s attempt to fuse his studies of antiquity with his critique of modernity. For Nietzsche, modernity is in a state of crisis. If we look at the intellectual relationship early Nietzsche develops with the Greek philosophers, it can be discovered the guiding problems motivating a good deal of Nietzsche's later work, but also and problem-solving strategies th...

Dr. Vesna Stanković Pejnović

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Dr. Aleksandra Kolaković

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Dr. Dušan Dostanić

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Dr. Ivan Matić

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МА Andrijana Lazarevic

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MA Bojana Sekulić

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Zoran B. Radonjić

The author maps the patterns of geographical representation in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia over the last nine electoral cycles, since the year 2000. During that period, a closed-list PR system is implemented in Serbian elections, within a single nationwide constituency. According to the theoretical expectations, such a system is unsuitable for equal geo...

Dejan Bursać

The goal of this research is to determine four key contextual political factors in shaping the political framework for holding snap parliamentary elections in 2022. Some of them belong to long-term processes, such as the decline of democracy and opposition contestation of election conditions, while others are the products of current political events, such as environmental protests, opposit...

Milan Jovanović

Nationalism is based on the principle of the compatibility of political and national unity. The national principle is particularly violated if members of the same nation are divided into several states where they represent the majority in each of them, but none of them can be considered a national state. A nation that has several states does not have its own nation-state. In many cases, it...

Dr. Đuro Bodrožić

Luka Zrnić wrote several works, mostly scientific brochures, which are on the border between journalism and science. They do not have a special scientific contribution, but they are significant because they were created at the beginning of the 20th century. In his works on democracy, religion, state, and institutions, L. Zrnić supports modernity over tradition and conservatism. He is a l...

Branko Nadoveza

In this study, we examine the concept of decent work on local digital platforms in Serbia. So, this article focuses on the research topic of whether labour done on local digital platforms may be classified as "decent work." Labour digitization and the digital economy are novel phenomena that need in-depth examination. We begin with the concept of the digital economy as a b...

Aleksandar Kovačević

At the beginning of the XXI century, we are witnessing great changes, caused by crises, conflicts in the world, and epidemics that change our way of life and work. In recent years, digitalization has progressed so much that it has affected the organization of work and contributed to the way many companies operate differently. Rightfully so, people begin to wonder if they can continue to ma...

Marijana Maksimović

The topic of the paper is the Italian radical right, which won a landslide victory in last year’s elections and formed the most right-wing government since World War Two. The aim of the paper is to determine the reasons for strengthening the Italian right’s fascist wing through the analysis of its history and the circumstances of its activity and to show whether the fears of the Europe...

Danijela M. Lakić

This paper deals with the question of ideological characteristics of human rights by using conceptual and critical–historical analysis. It first examines the different ideological conceptions of human rights by analyzing them from three distinct conceptions of ideology: critical, neutral, and functionalistic. It then proceeds to the critique of the neutral and functionalist conceptions a...

MA Andrea Jovanović

Territorial disputes in the Indo-Pacific pose challenges to interstate relations, both the region's countries and the United States. Although they are not part of the Indo-Pacific region, the role of the US is imposing, often influencing the dynamics of disputes and relations between states. The subject of this paper is the analysis of territorial and maritime disputes in the South China S...

Đurđica Stanković

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Duško Tomić

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Aleksandar Mitić

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Nenad Stekić

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Dragan Trailović

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Dr. Sanja Stošić

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Miloš Tomić

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Siniša Domazet

Despot Kovačević. 2023. Partije i partijski sistemi na postjugoslovenskom prostoru. Beograd: Albion Books, Fakultet političkih nauka, 294 str....

MA Dušan Čorbić

Nemanja Džuverović and Věra Stojarová. 2023. Peace and Security in the Western Balkans: A Local Perspective. London: Routledge, p. 309....

MA Ljiljana Kolarski

Prikaz monografije: Mitrović Ljubiša, R. 2022. Sociološke marginalije na savremene teme. Novi Sad: Prometej, 360 str....

MA Bojana Sekulić

Na Institutu za političke studije 8. februara 2023. godine održana je panel-diskusija na temu Nauka i naučnice u Srbiji i svetu. U susret obeležavanju 11. februara, Međunarodnog dana žena i devojaka u nauci koji je ustanovila Generalna skupština UN 2015. godine, održana je ova diskusija čiji je jedan od ciljeva bio da sagleda ne samo nasleđe razvoja nauke i društva u kontekstu položaja i uloge žena i devojaka u nauci, već i da se pozabavi i savremenim i budućim izazovima u ovom ko...

Dr. Jelena Todorović Lazić

The contemporary Balkans are still an area of unfinished peace. Its pacification and development depend on a faster process of regionalization and globalization, but also on changing the transition strategy and opening up to the elites of knowledge as actors in the economic, social, and cultural development of the countries of this region. Current flows in the European integration process are predominantly dictated by geostrategic interests but not by development goals. The paper discusses the a...

Dragana Lj. Mitrović

Biopower is a form of power that regulates social life from its interior, following it, interpreting it, absorbing it, and rearticulating it. Power can achieve an effective command over the entire life of the population only when it becomes an integral, vital function that every individual embraces and reactivates of his or her own accord. Biopower points out the moment when human life explicitly became part of the political calculations. Beyond the regime of sovereignty, oriented by a logic of ...

Dr. Vesna Stanković Pejnović

The topic of this scientific work is placed in the domain of social anomie. The effects of the action of informal forms of social anomie cause social entropy and indicate the permanent topicality of the topic. Social anomie destroys social processes, devalues institutions and devastates the fundamental values on which the community rests, so the social significance of research is unquestionable. Scientific justification is contained in the need to shed light on phenomena and processes from the d...

Dr. Vladan Stanković

The subject of this article refers to the examination of the convenience of the concept of total defense as a basis for designing a defense system in the function of strategic deterrence of the Republic of Serbia. The existing defense system was supposed to be based on the concept of total defense, which has not been defined, verified and generally accepted since the Republic of Serbia was founded. In accordance with the above, the question arises: whether the existing way of organizing and func...

Vangel Milkovski

Compulsory conscription in Serbia was established in the 19th century, and the military as a social institution rapidly became an indispensable part of the socialization process of citizens. It remained so until 2011, which lent credibility to the strategic considerations of deterrence and total defense of that time. The return of war to European soil actualizes the issue of society's readiness for defense in many European countries. Serbian society has changed significantly in the two previous ...

Srđan V. Starčević

The Paper examines the contemporary geopolitical position of the Republic of Serbia after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, with the aim of confirming the hypothesis that even in the new, difficult geopolitical conditions, it is possible to maintain the current policy of military neutrality and increase its own capacities for strategic deterrence. Starting with the geopolitical position of Ukraine in the Eurasian space, the strategies and goals of “Great Powers” in this conflict and the i...

Aleksandar Saša Gajić

The research goal of this paper is to determine the circumstances in which the strategy of deterrence is the “right thingˮ for the security of the state. In the pursuit of realizing their own interests – from minimum survival to maximum hegemony, states (in theory) have a wide range of possible ideal-type strategies. However, this does not mean that all possible strategies will be equally effective for achieving national interests. This paper strives to determine which conditions should be ...

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In this paper, we are talking about the historical roots of the nation state. In order to understand the meaning of an ideal, it is necessary to know its history, which also applies to the national ideal. By nation we mean people who know rhemselves in their country. The idea of the state is what transforms a people, understood as a cultural concept, into a politically active force that we know as a nation. In order for a nation to be considered free, not only civil liberties in the state embodi...

Dr. Đuro Bodrožić

The paper analyzes the principle of territorial integrity in the context of the dispute over the final status of Kosovo and Metohija. Without taking a position on the legal disputes, the authors provide an overview of the theoretical debate on territorial integrity and define the political consequences for Serbia's territorial integrity since Kosovo's* unilateral declaration of independence in 2008. Despite the constant mention of integrity as inseparable from sovereignty, the paper highlights t...

Stefan Surlić

Contemporary turbulence regarding the issue of global leadership (referred to by some authors as “primacy” or “hegemony”) takes place within a specific context, manifested through a single fundamental rift: the one based on key actors’ attitudes towards the necessity of structural revision of the world system, contrasted with aspirations to maintain the status quo. In other words, the struggle for global leadership not only has different goals, but also a different logic altog...

Mladen Lišanin

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland officially left the European Union in 2020. In line with this great geopolitical change, official London has produced a new integrated strategy for the so-called "Global Britain" in international relations. Considering that British influence on the Balkans has been present since early 19^th century, this geopolitical change got the attention of the Western Balkan relations analysts as well. This text aims to provide an answer to ...

Milan Krstić

Prikaz: Marina Kostić Šulejić. 2022. Strateška stabilnost u multipolarnom svetu. Beograd: Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, 259 str....

Mladen Lišanin

The text is an attempt to re-test certain authorial hypotheses regarding the character of the administrative dispute in the first Yugoslav state, by using descriptive and evaluation methods. In the first part of the paper, the readers are briefly reminded of the basic theoretical assumptions concerning the concept, subject and classification of administrative dispute. The second part of the paper presents a review of the normative framework and accepted legal solutions in the analyzed period. In...

Vojislav Bačanin

Fear is one of the basic human emotions that is due to the safety need and preservation of life. The phenomenon of fear is closely related to the social structure and significantly influences the behavior of actors. The paper shows the instrumentalization of fear as a mechanism of social control. Fear is a multidimensional phenomenon (biological, psychological, cultural and social dimensions of fear) and its interpretation requires the application of the multidisciplinary approach. In the paper ...

Dr. Ivana Luknar

It seems that the work of Michel Foucault has, in the last decade, attracted some attention. This attention is a result of media engaging in a sensationalist way with his work and his private life. He is usually being portrayed as a radical postmodern nihilist, while his work is being blamed for inspiring contemporary identity politics and the practice of political correctness. These developments seem to us as a good reason to go back to Foucault’s work. Since the relation between scientific w...

Milan Urošević

The paper examines the political consequences of the change in electoral legislation through a comparative analysis of election results at the local level in 2016 and 2020. In addition to the analysis of the election results themselves, and bearing in mind the boycott of the majority of the opposition in the 2020 elections, the paper will also show a simulation of the election results of 2016 with a reduced electoral threshold of 3% in order to better understand the effect of lowering the electo...

МА Nikola Perišić

The purpose of the paper is to research the influence of political environment factors on the inflow of foreign investments in Serbia. Keeping in mind that many countries in Southeast Europe find themselves in a situation where foreign investments are a necessity and a need for whole economic development, this research focused on Serbia owing to it...

Ivana Domazet

By relying on realistic theories of international relations, using the methods of content analysis, synthesis and comparison, it is possible to monitor and prove the phenomenon of establishing a balance of power in contemporary international relations. One of the key factors in that process is certainly the Russian Federation. The aspiration to redefine the post-Cold War international order and to shape a new one - multipolar and polycentric, is noticeable in Russia's strategies, as well as in t...

Dušan Proroković

In this article the author, firstly, considers different aspects of contemporary neoliberalism as biopolitics, especially reflecting the issue of cryptodemocracy in the end of 20^th as well as in the first decades of 21^st century. Or, more precisely, beginning from Foucault’s articulation of biopolitics as both regulation and control of population, the issue of multiple forms of “liberal democracy” in neoliberalism and poststructualism is critically addressed. In this ...

Dr. Bogdana Koljević Griffith

The subject of research is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent extremism and organized crime in the Republic of Serbia. The authors used the method of document content analysis and quantitative methods (surveys) for research purposes. The time of the research included the most intense period of the pandemic, and the authors investigated the situation in the Republic of Serbia from March 2020, when the virus was first registered, to mid-2021. The initial hypothesis in the research is t...

Dr. Marija Đorić, Assistant Director for Scientific Research

The paper illuminates how civil society organisations in Serbia, in the aftermath of the political changes initiated on 5 October 2000, played the essential role in articulating corruption as a vital public issue, raising awareness of the public, and putting pressure on the then governments to include this issue in the political agenda. Our analysis focuses on two planes of civil society organisations activities: 1) research efforts aimed at properly understanding the phenomenology of corruption...

Dr. Srđan T. Korać

Dans ce texte sont analysés certains détails inédits concernant la collaboration de Gabriel Millet et de Djurdje Bošković. La collaboration entre les deux chercheurs date de 1927 – année de la tenue du Deuxième congrès international des byzantinistes à Belgrade, quand Bošković a été délégué auprès de Millet en tant que collaborateur technique. Les deux chercheurs ont poursuivi leur collaboration au cours des années 1934 et 1935, lors de la mission exploratoire organisée grâ...

Jasmina Ćirić

Bien que dans des circonstances exiguës dues aux différences politiques et idéologiques, à l'éloignement géographique et à la pénurie mutuelle de main-d'œuvre, la participation de l'expérience française et les Françaises à la vie économique et non économique de la Yougoslavie au début du socialisme n'a pas été exclue. L'analyse des sources d'archives et de la littérature dans le document montre les formes de cette coopération et surtout la participation de certains experts fr...

Saša Ilić

L’espoir de tout rapprochement significatif avec Moscou s’étant progressivement éteint et les démocraties populaires n’ayant pas vraiment donné suite aux appels du pied de Paris, la diplomatie française a jeté son dévolu sur Belgrade. Ce mariage de raison, alors que son cœur l’entraînait beaucoup plus vers Varsovie, Bucarest ou Prague, offre au Général le cadre confortable d’une concordance de vue objective entre la France et la Yougoslavie sur de nombreux dossiers internati...

Sacha Markovic

La transposition des grilles d’analyse d’A.-D. Smith relative aux stratégies de conciliation de légitimité et de celle de Miroslav Hroch étudiant les mouvements nationalistes permettent de comprendre la transition politique en Europe postcommuniste. Surplombée par une européanisation rapide, cette transition se révèle fragile dès la fin des années 2008. Les nouveaux États indépendants absorbent avec difficulté l’enchainement de crises (financière, migratoire et sanitaire). D�...

Pauline Soulier

Depuis la fin des années 1970, l’idéologie libérale mène une croisade pour que le monde globalisé adopte des règles de fonctionnement qui permettent à l’économie et à la finance de générer toujours plus de profits au bénéfice des actionnaires. Dans le récit qui accompagne cette croisade libérale, l’Etat est présenté comme une institution anachronique nuisible à l’harmonie globale, dont les piliers sont la liberté du marché et des mœurs. Dans ces conditions, l’achar...

Dejan Dimitrijević

Dans cet article, les auteurs tentent de présenter systématiquement l'évolution des relations économiques entre la Serbie et la France. Pour cela, les auteurs partent d'une revue de l'histoire des relations économiques, nécessaire à la compréhension du contexte contemporain. La revue historique comprend une analyse des relations économiques entre la Serbie et la France à travers les étapes suivantes : 1. 1878-1918 ; 2. 1918-1939 ; 3. 1945-1991, et 4. 1991-2000. Les tendances contempor...

Dr. Stevan Rapaić

Depuis 1997, l’UE favorise la coopération régionale dans les Balkans. Celle-ci a pris depuis différentes formes: coopération régionale, zone de libre-échange, bons rapports de voisinages. Depuis quelques années, l’UE développe le concept de macro-régions qui permets aux Etats balkaniques qui souhaitent entrer dans l’UE de développer des projets communs entre eux mais aussi avec les pays déjà membres de l’Union européenne. Deux macro-régions ont ainsi vu le jour: la macro-r�...

Nebojsa Vukadinovic

Au cœur de l'analyse du discours appliqué à ce travail scientifique se trouve la notion des Balkans occidentaux, c'est-à-dire son apparition dans le quotidien français Le Monde dans la période du 1er juillet 2013 au 31 décembre 2020. L'analyse a été menée en recherchant dans les archives les mots clés mentionnés : les Balkans occidentaux, les Balkans, la Serbie, la Macédoine (du Nord), l’Albanie, la Bosnie-Herzégovine, le Monténégro, le Kosovo*, l’élargissement de l'UE. Sur ...

Dr. Jelena Todorović Lazić

In this paper, challenges most often faced by young researchers who deal with extremism are analysed. The amorphousness of this phenomenon, temporal and spatial conditionality, as well as numerous indistinctions regarding its definition, make extremism quite interesting, albeit complex for research. The author first explained the nature of the phenomenon of extremism, and then highlighted its characteristic forms and classification criteria. The paper provides explicit guidelines on how young re...

Dr. Marija Đorić, Assistant Director for Scientific Research

History often deemed as an ongoing spiral, can easily repeat itself and present a new security challenge. Inasmuch as people are driven by fear and grievances during uneasy times, it can often open doors to populism and demagogy as tools for power seeking groups – an unfortunate reality from the last century. Such political strategies have nowadays taken new shapes in the age of social medias, and due to the series of ongoing crises the European Union is facing, it can have far reaching conseq...

Peter Zilka

The main subject of the paper is foreign fighters and their families who remain in Iraq and Syria. The paper aims to shed light on the current state of unreturned foreign fighters and their families in Iraqi and Syrian camps and prisonsto facilitate the discussion on an appropriate response towards the “unreturned”. The paper additionally attempts to reflect on possible consequences of the current state of the foreign fighters and their families in Iraq and Syria. Theoretical framework of th...

Anastasia Latenkova

The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the vast literature regarding the topic of foreignfighters, specifically in reference to Somali youth residing in the U.S. state of Minnesota whohave joined the Al-Shaabab terrorist group. The research is carried out by tracing andanalyzing theory regarding the processes of radicalization, and then applying it to theSomali-American communityemploying the method of content analysis. The choice of this method stemmed from the need to understand and expl...

Camilla Biolcati

One of the modern problems of international security has become the phenomenon of foreign fighters who, as inhabitants of European states, go to Syria and Iraq to join terrorist groups. Some of the fighters subsequently decide, for one reason or another, to repatriate back to Europe. This creates a security dilemma for many states that need to be addressed. The goal of this paper is to identify the best strategies for dealing with foreign fighters and their relatives. In order to achieve this, t...

Mareeva Elizaveta

The Turkish Idealist movement, encompassing the militant Grey Wolves as well as the current Turkish coalition partner, the Nationalist Action Party, represent the most influential elements of the Turkish (or Turkic) far right, with activities reaching from Western Europe all the way to Xinjiang, China. This paper seeks to map the ideological framework and evolution of the Idealist movement. It argues that, while strongly influenced by fascism, it is not in essence a totalitarian movement. Furthe...

Sindre Langmoen

In 2014, the unstable political environment in the Middle East provided the opportunity for an extremist jihadist group to establish its own state on the territory of Iraq and Syria - the so-called Islamic State with its society based on the ideology of Islamic extremism. This ideology also clearly defined gender roles for men and women. This paper examines the phenomenon of women's roles in religious extremism with the aim to analyse gender roles within Islamic extremism by using a case study o...

Kateřina Šabatová

This paper aims to explore possible ways that mainstream social media and alternative media platforms function possibly as catalysators for gender based violent extremism. Based on analysis of already existing research and events, we argue that social media platforms such as Reddit and 4chan function as echo chambers where already radical-thinking individuals and ideologies are validated and encourage further extreme thoughts.We also argue that through trends on mainstream apps such as TikTok,is...

Veronica Hambalko

Social media plays a key role in the contemporary world, having indefinite power to influence people by just a single post and click of a button, reaching millions of people in a few seconds. In April 2022, Elon Musk announced his step into the world-famous‘wall of opinions’ – Twitter– with words of creating a better, free-speech-based platform with no limitations. Since online radicalization became the easiest and most powerful recruiting tool for terrorist and extremist organi...

Tomáš Kouba

Numerous terrorist attacks, mass shootings, war crimes and less brutal instances of deviant behaviour such as commitment to radical Islamism or hatred against other nations often tend to be the manifestation of one of the last stages of radicalization. There is no single scenario, according to which radicalization proceeds. Absolutely different reasons can encourage a person to renounce normal values and accept the idea that the world can and should be fundamentally changed, sometimes even by fo...

Aleksei Teplov

The United States has, in recent years, struggled with the rise of the Alt-Right. A wing of political extremism associated with extreme conservatism, racism, anti-Semitism, and sexist ideals, the target demographic is young, white, Christian males. Multiple mass shootings have been attributed to the ideology and, in tracing its roots, one finds the home of such ideologies to be on online forums such as Reddit, 4chan, and 8chan. This paper analyzes the lax rules and lack of moderation on these si...

Gillian Stark

Vanja Glišin. 2019. Balkan geopolitical paradigm: The Balkans in the geopolitical vision of the great powers. Sremski Karlovci: Kairos, 160 p....

МА Savo Simić

The state of exception is implemented to protect the security of citizens and public order. During that time the human rights become limited in favor of public authorities. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, only some countries in Europe have declared a state of exception. It is worth to consider what caused this decision. The aim of this article is therefore to determine whether and to what extent a specific model of social policy dominating in the state had an impact on the steps taken to c...

Ewa Bujwid-Kurek

This paper is based on qualitative secondary data analysis to provide more comprehensive insights into innovative electoral policy choices of election management bodies (EMBs), faced with multiple challenges of COVID-19 to different aspects of organisation of electoral cycle: its regulatory, operational, and procedural framework to ensure safe voting environment, voter participation and democratic legitimacy. Various COVID-19 related arrangements are reviewed: health safety measures and more ext...

Dijana Vukomanović

The relation between science and populism has already been investigated by relevant sociopolitical literature. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has produced remarkable changes in how politics, science, and society relate to each other. Therefore, there is a need to explore further what science is to populists and how populist parties have dealt with science in times of pandemic. How much has science-related communication by populist parties changed after the outbreak of Coronavirus? What topics ha...

Mirko Crulli

This paper aims to develop an analysis of how the Covid-19 pandemic influenced populist trends in the Western Balkan countries. Covid-19 pandemic impacted many sectors within the states themselves including health, economy, education, etc. and it produced even greater challenges at an international level. By focusing in the Western Balkans area, the paper focuses on the political system, and more specifically on how the political leadership through specific decision-making processes during the p...

Viorela Agolli

The paper aims to disclose the (de)securitization of Covid-19 during the two Macedonian electoral processes (i.e. the 2020 parliamentary and 2021 local elections) in accordance with the ruling elites’ liking. The basic premise is that the pandemic has catalyzed the underlying processes of political alienation and authoritarian tendencies that had been present even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The safety rules and regulations during the pandemic have been repeatedly re-modeled ...

Biljana Vankovska

When COVID-19 pandemic was announced in March 2020, North Macedonia was in the middle of the electoral process, with a dissolved Parliament and a few days before the start of the electoral campaign. The elections were postponed because the threats of the virus were unpredictable and the strategy to handle it was unknown. Instead of April 2020, the elections were held in July 2020. The changes of the Electoral Code were adopted in order to introduce procedures for voting that would be safe for vo...

Renata Treneska Deskoska

As one of the Balkan post-communist countries, Albania faces different hindering factors in the process of constituting election’s democracy. In the parliamentary election of April 2021, Albania was challenged by an additional extraordinary obstacle, of holding parliamentary election during the Covid-19 pandemic circumstances. The Covid-19 pandemic restrictions imposed new realities to the electoral process, specifically in: development of electoral campaign, voting process, diaspora voting, v...

Dorina Bërdufi

The year 2020 was an electoral year in Romania, with local and parliamentary elections being held in September and December. In the midst of the pandemic crisis, with new rules to be followed, both during the electoral campaign and at the polls, none of the two electoral moments seemed to be visibly influenced by the sudden changes of the social context. Neither the turnout, nor the main electoral themes saw much change compared to previous elections. This paper seeks to analyze the impact of th...

Mihaela Ivănescu

During the last few years, while, in many countries, political leaders and supporters of liberal democracy were facing new and unexpected challenges due to the rise of populist radical right tendencies, Romania seemed to be immune to such temptations. The latest development of the political landscape in other countries from Eastern Europe like Hungary or Poland, apparently, didn’t matter either. Therefore, after the downfall of the Greater Romania Party, more than a decade ago, and some other ...

Mihaela Ilie

The main subjects of this article are new political parties and organizations and their ideological incongruence as setbacks for root in society and institutionalization. The party system in Serbia has changed in aspects of stability and relevance of political parties. New instability was produced by tendencies of the predominance of one party (Serbian Progressive Party) and losing position of old political parties through splitting, losing of resources and capacities, intraparty instability, et...

Despot Kovačević

Why do some opposition parties in hybrid regimes escalate their strategies of contention from parliamentary to election boycotts, while others do not? Opposition parties in hybrid regimes engage with a repertoire of extra-institutional strategies, including protests, parliamentary, and election boycotts. These strategies challenge the authoritarian dimension of the regime and aim to level the electoral playing field, but the election boycotts strategy carries more risk than the others, as it can...

Vujo Ilić

The subject of this paper is thorough analysis of value pluralism and moral and cultural relativism, as different meta-ethical theories. The focus of the analysis is Berlin’s understanding of value pluralism, distinction between value monism and pluralism, as well as the implications of this distinction. This topic is connected with other key issues, such as the concepts of freedom and human nature, therefore it is of great importance in the field of moral and political discussions. Drawing on...

Dr. Višnja Stojadinović

Review: Slobodan Antonić 2022. Dva zavetna naroda: Rusi i Srbi. Beograd: Katena Mundi, 77 str....

МА Savo Simić

The issue of professional activity of people with disabilities (PWD, PD, PWDs) is important from the point of view of individuals as well as of the whole society and economy. There are various, complementary to each other methods of supporting the disabled in this regard. This article presents the possibility of using unmanned flight technology for this purpose. The needs of people with disabilities were analyzed and juxtaposed with current and future technological possibilities taking into acco...

Mateusz Gregorski

In the meanders of Serbian history, discontinuities often occurred, which were ideologically directed, due to incomprehensible delusions and misconceptions and which were often tragic. In these "winds of history", many important intellectuals who pointed out these misconceptions and potential misfortunes, suffered great consequences (personal and scientific), were pushed out of collective memory, were forgotten and some were declared enemies of the state, as was the case with Dragoljub Jovanovi�...

Petar Anđelković

The subject of study in this paper is the return and rise of the new left in the elections held in the previous four years in Latin America. The focus of the research is on the causes and consequences of the return of the pink tide and its basic characteristics. The main goal of this paper is to objectively look at the problems and difficulties faced by the states of the region in the context of the cyclical change of leftist and rightist policies. Special attention in the work is devoted to the...

Zoran Krstić

The paper presents findings of a study developed as a part of the research project entitled ‘Serbia and challenges in international relations in 2022’, financed by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, and conducted by the Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade. This paper, divided in three chapters of uneven length, analyses the world trends in near future. Forecasting major processes at the global scale is a...

Slobodan Janković

The European Union is an unprecedented project in the European space and certainly in international relations. One of the main problems in her study was, and still is, determining her true nature. For the needs of our work, the definition of the European Union as a functional political system was accepted, but not the state. The subject of this paper is the assessment of the democratic quality of the Union, especi...

Zoran Čupić

During the last few years, there has been a lot of talk about the rise of right-wing populism in European countries. Usually, this is not a value-neutral statement and the supposed rise of right-wing populism is often perceived as a danger or challenge to democracy. Yet, there are at least three objections to this widely accepted statement. First, it remains uncertain what populism really is, and what is it supposed to mean. The second objection is a problematic measure of the alleged “rise”...

Dr. Dušan Dostanić

Issues of human rights are prevalently discussed as pertaining to individual rights as opposed to collective interests. Following the long liberal political tradition, human rights tend to be seen as potentially in opposition to collective rights, which may limit the liberty of the individual to make choices that would militate against the relevant collective interests. In this paper, we argue that individual rights ought to be seen as derivative, social rights. Just as an individual’s identit...

Aleksandar Fatić

In this paper, author explores the meaning of the notion of victory in war and determines the existence of two different meanings – military and political victory, which can be different from each other. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the possible long-term practical consequences of potential semantical divergence of these two kinds of victory in war, i.e., of achievement of military victory that contributes nothing to the political victory, despite them being closely interconnected. G...

Dragan Stanar

In this paper, we will deal with ordoliberal political philosophy and the social-market economy as its key phenomena. Our goal is to try to show the development path of the term, its initial perception, but also its later reception. In the first part of the work, the sources of the social-market economy are analyzed, of which the Christian social doctrine, which was born as a reaction to economic-political problems, stands out as the main source. Special attention is paid to papal encyclicals, w...

МА Miloš Vulić

This study attempts to deconstruct the neocolonial status of Serbia. The paper claims that Serbia was selfcolonized through two cultural varieties: through the actions of Second Serbian, westernized liberal-democratic elites and through the actions of First Serbian, traditionalized elites. It is shown how both discourses favor neo-imperial imperatives and agendas. The decolonizing solution can be seen in the hybridization of culture through the concepts of "culture of the Serbian soul" and "supe...

Dr. Đorđe Stojanović

Political science has been interested in the research of populism for a considerable time, but recently there has been a proliferation of the literature on the topic. However, the recent populist tactics of political parties in Serbia have been relatively underresearched. The literature already suggested that the ruling Serbian Progressive Party is a populist party, but populist elements of Serbia's mainstream opposition have been disregarded. This article aims to contribute the literature by an...

Dr. Nikola Mladenović

The paper analyses the “Open Balkanˮ initiative with the intention of establishing, through a critical discourse analysis, the dominant positions of the countries of the Western Balkans regarding this form of regional cooperation. The authors will show that political discourses towards regional integration are, on the one hand, a product of the internal unfinished process of state and nation-building, while on the other hand, they are a direct consequence of open bilateral issues and the abse...

Stefan Surlić

Globalna finansijska kriza iz 2008. godine suočila je svet sa novom realnošću. Period zatišja i saniranja posledica ove krize dodatno je potvrdio izvesnost sumnji o umanjenoj globalnoj ekonomskoj dominaciji SAD. Priznanje značaja rastućih ekonomija i njihove uloge na svetskom nivou postala je neminovnost. Pre svega, takav značaj se morao priznati Kini, a čini se da je ova kriza bila neophodna da bi uspon i razvoj Kine bio napokon prihvaćen kao nesporna činjenica. Nakon krize, na global...

MA Andrea Matijević

The parliamentary elections held in Hungary on April 3, 2022 were the first since 2006 to promise a dose of increased competitiveness and even uncertainty; and surely the first since the beginning of the second Viktor Orban’s PM term (since 2010) in which the opposition hoped for relative success. This hope was justified by several factors: opposition parties ran together in the parliamentary elections for the first time and nominated an independent and conservative candidate close to the medi...

Dejan Bursać

The objective of the paper is to provide a distinction of the often partially or completely overlapping hybrid regime terms and to discuss the notions and concepts related to the discourse on hybrid regimes. The clarification of grey zone related definitions is highly justified due to the existing rich Babelian terminology as well as the potential benefit of having a clearer view on the contradictions and limitations inherent to traditional democracy interpretations. There is a scientific consen...

Balázs Böcskei

The main goal of this paper is to present a detailed analysis of the problem of morality and legitimacy within the theoretical framework of the Renaissance thinker Niccolo Machiavelli. The following analysis will focus on the central principle of Machiavelli’s political ethics; I claim that, if correctly formulated and interpreted, it can be successfully used as a criterion for establishing the legitimacy of political decisions. The first part of the paper will present the overall framework of...

Dr. Ivan Matić

The policy of inclusive education is part of a broader policy of creating a more inclusive, fairer, humane, tolerant and democratic society. Given that children through education adopt a number of attitudes that will shape their lives in the future, it is very important to adequately approach the process of inclusive education. Bearing in mind that in recent years there have been numerous discussions regarding the implementation of inclusive education, the purpose of this paper is to lay clear t...

МА Jovan Berić

The paper points to social effects produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are of such importance that they have largely changed the people’s life on the planet, leading to the deepening social stratification, substantially affecting geopolitical relations in the modern world, and even questioning science as a form of human knowledge of the world and its authority, which could not be im...

Uroš V. Šuvaković

The paper deals with the analysis of institutional determinants as incentive measures for attracting foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Republic of Serbia. Special attention is paid to institutional factors such as political and economic stability, level of corruption, the efficiency of the judiciary, then a stable and reliable, and at the same time transparent legal framework, which tries to explain the behavior of foreign investors when choosing a destination. The paper shows that the po...

Marko B. Tmušić

The Corona virus has led to many changes, and they are: 1. The virus pandemic has led to a decline in economic activity in almost all countries of the world. 2. The relationship between the United States and China has become more tense, intolerance and intolerance have increased, because both countries want to rule the world, the United States is calling for success in the 20th century, and China is counting on success in the 21st century. However, the United States no longer has the economic, m...

Marijana Maksimović

The paper deals with the new diplomatic platforms of the People's Republic of China and the United States of America for cooperation with the Central Asian Republics in the “5+1” format. These two formats of cooperation are seen in the context of intra-regional changes in the political structure of Central Asia, primarily changes related to the transition of power in the Central Asian republics and the launch of consultative meetings of Central Asian leaders with the aim of improving regiona...

Dragan Trailović

Book review: Slavenko, Terzić. 2021. Na kapijama Konstantinopolja. Rusija i balkansko pitanje u 19. veku. Beograd: Istorijski institut. Novi Sad: Pravoslavna reč, 742 str....

Dragan Simeunović

Book review: Kristijan, Nimic. 2019. Socijalizam: propala ideja koja ne odumire, preveo Saša Mirković. Beograd: Centar za antiautoritarne studije, 384 str....

Dr. Dušan Dostanić

Prikaz knjige: Ivan Krastev. 2013. S verom u nepoverenje: Može li demokratija da opstane kada ne verujemo svojim liderima. Beograd: Klio, 100 str....

МА Savo Simić

In this paper, we assume that China, like other major powers, does not change its strategic views and behaviour hastily, even being affected by powerful exterior influence like the Covid-19 pandemic. On the other hand, such significant global events could speed up or deepen ongoing trends and changes in major power relations, the global system, and China's place in it. Accordingly, changes in China’s foreign policy, as the most direct tool of realising its external goals, but primarily being a...

Dragana D. Mitrović

In my paper, I would like to investigate two forms of criticism directed towards one of the most famous texts of the “founding father” of conservatism, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. The one is a critique by an adherent of radical enlightenment, the “proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft who sees the French “Ancién Regime” and the British system of government of the time both in a negative context and would like to replace them with strict political rationality...

Zoltán Pető

Unlike Germany, which in many ways expressed and took responsibility for the Second World War - through statements of its representatives, payments of reparations and material satisfaction to war victims, but also in various symbolic ways (paying tribute to victims), the most famous of which is In 1971, when her then Chancellor Willy Brant, during an official visit to Poland, knelt in front of a monument to Poles killed in World War II as victims of Nazism - Croatia avoids responsibility for cri...

Dr. Jovan Janjić

The creators of the Theory of the Regional Security Complex considered that the Balkans, due to linguistic and cultural similarities, common history, and geographical connections, represent a special security subcomplex within the European Regional Security Complex. The events that caused changes within the Balkans, that influenced changes in the structure of patterns of friendship or animosity, the causes that led to them, and ultimately, the security integration processes that questionably inf...

Mirjana Milenković

-RETRACTED- Medically assisted reproduction, which first emerged in 1978, is regarded as an important mechanism for combating infertility in an efficient and approachable manner. Albeit the fact that different countries opt for different solutions when dealing with this issue, it can nevertheless be stressed that they all tend to recognize the right of any individual battling with infertility to become a user of MAR treatments. Hence, the author stresses that reproductive autonomy is, and more ...

Ivana Barać

The aim of this paper is to analyze research that deals with the impact of ethnic and racial prejudices on the psychosocial development of children and members of marginalized groups and to provide evidence-based recommendations that indicate the need for change to improve their position. The paper is based on the analysis of the existing scientific literature, and the method of work used is the analysis of the content of documents. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to first define ...

Miona Gajić

By analysing the legislative framework which, after two decades, significantly changes the election regulations and the principles of the legitimate constitution of government at the state and local levels, we tried to answer the question: do the newly adopted solutions comprehensively ensure legal security, equality of all participants in the election process and fair representation? Furthermore, how will the new regulations affect the crystallised electoral practice so far, to what extent will...

Bálint Pásztor

The subject of this paper is semi-intellectual in the scientific perspective of Slobodan Jovanović. In his works, Jovanović paid special attention to the semi-intellectual, assuring readers of all the uselessness of this kind of individual, the one who persistently strives for power. The absence of moral qualities by a semi-intellectual, in interaction with the challenges imposed by the state government, inevitably leads to his further corruption. Hence, the semi-intellectual has the property ...

Predrag Terzić

Based on the analysis of census statistical data, the paper studies the development, position, socio-economic and ethno-demographic characteristics of members of the Bulgarian national minority in Serbia. Following and comparing the results of successive state censuses, depopulation trends in the demographic development of Bulgarian nationality were observed, whose number has decreased by more than three times since World War II, as a result of decades of declining fertility, aging, migration, e...

Dr. Nada Raduški, Deputy President of the Scientific Council

A text entitled “Cultural Nationalism” written by Isidora Sekulic, prompted contemplation of this topic. It was published in a journal “Novi Srbin” in Sombor in 1912, whose editor was Vasa Stajic. On the eve of the Great War, the Serbian national idea was facing challenges which influenced its modification. Insisting on the cultural content of the national idea was a narrative that has been nurtured for a long time in the territory of present-day Vojvodina, former Southern Hungary. The a...

Saša Marković

The subject of the paper is the "State Double" model, which has been developed by the dissident intellectual elite in the cultural policy of Serbia during the last fifty years, expressing disagreement with the ruling political and cultural currents. The aim of this paper is to determine the correlation between this informal model and the official models of cultural policies in the period from 1971 to 2021. The research includes an analysis of the “Arm’s length” model of "self-government...

Vesna Đukić

The work by analyzing and comparing the elements and symbols of the statehood of the Kingdom of Serbia, the Republic of Serbia, the Republika Srpska, and the Republika Srpska Krajina shows that, after the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia, the Republika Srpska and the Republika Srpska Krajina renewed the identity of the Kingdom of Serbia. In this regard, the paper shows that today, both the Republic of Serbia and the Republika Srpska bear the identity of the statehood of Serbia, so it is logical t...

Aleksandar Raković

Drawing on the theory of political myths and qualitative source analysis, this article compares political mythologies created by the presidents of Poland and Argentina. The main argument is that they struck populist notes by using conspiracy, saviour, unity, and golden age myths to legitimize government policies during the pandemic. The crisis gave rise to a search for legitimacy for anti-democratic measures limiting pluralism. These leaders persuaded their supporters to respect political change...

Joanna Rak

With all its flaws, a deliberative democracy presents a very important democratic concept – a concept that needs to be improved, but also a concept that needs to be understood. This article aims to present basic concepts of both deliberative democracy and its critiques, providing an updated basic for further discussion, development, and evolution of the concept. Reviewing all relevant concepts, streams, and critics is a demanding and time-consuming task, but hopefully, this article will be abl...

Marko Novaković

In the European Union, healthcare and public health are mostly within the competence of Member States. Still, in a number of sub-domains, coordination between Member States led to the adoption of legislation that formed the healthcare acquis, together with a whole set of programs and initiatives aimed at improving public health within the Union. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was formed in 2004 to help EU institutions and Member States identify and assess ...

Marta Sjeničić

As one of the most important global trade actors, in the period that lasted from 1999 to 2021the European Union promoted five different trade strategies. Some of them, such as the strategy of “managed globalisation” (of 1999) and “Global Europe” (of 2006) represented a deviation from the previous trade practice, while others (“Trade, Growth and World Affairs” from 2010, “Trade, Growth and Development” of 2012, and “Trade for All” of 2015), for the most part, included signific...

Aleksandar Milošević

This paper presents an overview of a research study on the position of persons with disabilities (PWD) in the labour market of the Boka Kotorska region, in the municipalities of Tivat, Kotor and Herceg Novi. This original research study is based on an analysis of the perception and attitudes of PWD regarding their position in the labour market. The study looks into the attitudes of PWD towards: education, employment, motivation to engage in employment, and the challenges they face in seeking emp...

Uglješa Janković

The paper deals with the theoretical and legal practical foundation of the concept of alternative care for children in the social welfare system. Applying the human rights principle and child best interest doctrine along with the contemporary holistic and integrated approach to the research subject, we aim to identify the proper interpretation of the notion of alternative care for children in international, European and national domains. The recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights ...

Sanja Stojković Zlatanović

In this paper the author analyses the contemporary counter-terrorism  especially in the context of relevant international and national regulatives. The author first considers counter-terrorism measures in investigation of crimes of terrorism. In the name of protecting states and citizens, “war on terrorism” in some countries legitimized many actions directed towards the suppression of any potential danger from terrorism. Some boundaries have been crossed when the treatment of suspicious ind...

Aleksandra Ilić

After decades of marking the Kurds as an existential threat to Turkey's territorial integrity and ontological security, a new peacetime period is coming, accompanied by peace initiatives and the conflict's de-escalation. Taking into account the fact that the Turkish-Kurdish peace process failed during the most significant migrant crisis of the modern age, the paper seeks to examine the causality of these processes, i.e. to answer the question of whether and how the securitisation of the migratio...

МА Milica Stojčić

Accurately forming personality judgments is of vital importance in a wide range of social interactions. Although people are able to make fairly accurate personality judgments of others, recent technological advances in machine learning made computers better at predicting personality than humans. In this review, we will focus on computer-based personality judgments and their theoretical considerations and practical implications in politics. More precisely, we will discuss (i) the use of social pl...

Lana Tucaković

In the last decade, the subject of sale, purchase or transit of natural gas between the countries in Europe has gained, in addition to the economic dimension, a much broader, and for some countries even more significant, geopolitical dimension. This is most evident based on the attitude of the United States and some European countries towards the projects for the construction of the Nord Stream 2, Turkish Stream and South Stream gas pipelines. By displaying a negative attitude towards these gas ...

Zarko Obradovic

The paper aims to explore which situations the state can exercise political power over its citizens. The art is to find the fine line between citizens' rights and state coercion. The best way to present an answer to this issue is by examining the principles when state coercion might be justified. Hence, wewill examine eight following principles: Harm Principle, Offense Principle, Legal Moralism, Legal Paternalism, Collective Benefits Principle, Justice Principle, Need Principle, Sufficiency Prin...

Andrej Semenov

Book review: Joseph McQuade. 2021. A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial law and the Origins of an Idea. Canbridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 276....

MA Ljiljana Kolarski

This paper discusses the intensity, form, and degree of awareness of the postmodernization of social work. In that sense, the postmodernization of social work means its discursive and metanarrative placement in the context of globally postmodernized societies, both at the level of external institutional network of meaning and at the level of internal reconfiguration, reformulation, redefinition, and reorganization according to new postmodern principles, agendas, and requirements. However, this d...

Dr. Đorđe Stojanović

The legal electoral threshold of 5% of valid votes has functioned in the Serbian electoral system for virtually two decades. Since 2004, it has not been applied to the electoral lists of national minority parties. In one cycle of local elections, in 2004, it was reduced to 3%. Ahead of the parliamentary, local and regional elections in 2020, negotiations between the government and the opposition on the conditions for free and fair elections resulted in a unilateral decision by the government to ...

Milan Jovanović

Modern cognitive and experimental science is increasingly working to explore the meaning and importance of forgetting. Forgetting happens to be one of the most important mental functions on an individual level, but also on social and national ones, since it enables healing, purification of thoughts from difficult memories, prevents obsession with problems, and eliminates the possibility of psychosomatic illnesses. The famous British TV series Black Mirror, which has become a symbol o...

Miša Đurković

Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Scheler perceive the spirit of their time and its deep social and spiritual crisis of Western civilization, emphasizing that the loss of common values ​​and landmarks in social life led to ressentiment alienation, meaninglessness, pessimism, despair, decadence, decay, nihilism. In the paper, by method of comparative analysis, it is presented Nietzsche's and Scheler's perspectives of perceiving the crisis of the spirit of modern civilization and their proposals ...

Dr. Vesna Stanković Pejnović

In March 2021, a state of emergency was declared in the Republic of Serbia due to the appearance of the corona virus. Since the National Assembly could not convene, the Government of the Republic of Serbia, with the President of the Republic as a co-signature, issued a decree prescribing measures derogating from human and minority rights, in order to deal with the epidemic as efficiently as possible. A few days later, based on the powers contained in the decree, the Minister of the Interior issu...

Đorđe Marković

Considering the historical development of criminal-legal protection of the most important human values, we investigated which acts against life and body have been incriminated in Serbia throughout history. The historical path from the earliest period, when the Talion principle was applied through the remnants of customary law, until the 20th century, shows the development of criminal law protection of life and body in a more modern direction, with a solid number of incriminations. In the followi...

Vanda Božić

Turkey can no longer be considered the West's periphery. The issue of finding a common language with Turkey for the United States has become a top priority of its foreign policy, even at the cost of making some difficult compromises. The alliance between the United States and Turkey, established during the Cold War, faced many challenges in the decades following this great global conflict. While this alliance was relatively reliable during the Cold War, this situation later changed significantly...

Dr. Miša Stojadinović, Director of the Institute

During the 2019 and 2020 US-Russia debate on the New START extension, both countries raised again the issue of multilateralization of strategic offensive arms control. However, while the USA called for China’s participation, Russia once again reiterated the Soviet Union’s Cold-War position and invited France and the UK to join first. Having in mind China’s refusal to join these talks, out of various reasons, the purpose of this article is to explore the attitudes of France and the UK, two ...

Marina T. Kostić

Nigeria is a very complex society with over 300 different ethnic groups, about 500 different languages ​​and extremely fast population growth with over 210 million inhabitants in 2021. The merging of these different groups and identities into one common entity has been a serious problem since the creation of the modern state in 1914., which colonial rulers have largely solved by force. When we analyze and observe Nigeria and its postcolonial period, we can say that it is at least turbulent a...

Boris Bursać

Joseph Biden’s electoral win in November 2020 was widely anticipated as American return to the global stage. In many academic and policy circles, the removal of “isolationist” Donald Trump and important triumph of liberal internationalist Biden was expected to bring about a new chapter in US relations with allies worldwide, leaving behind the awkwardness of previous administration’s reckless political style. However, once the global affairs started unfolding in 2021, Biden Administration...

Mladen Lišanin

Over the last decade the EU has faced challenges on numerous fronts: economic crisis and slow recovery, refugee crisis, terrorism, Brexit, lack of effectiveness of its foreign and security policy. In recent years, the EU has put new effort to define its purpose and standing in international relations, and it seeks to become strategically autonomous actor. That means an actor with the ability to set priorities and make decisions. As the role of the United States is still pre-eminent in the securi...

Milan Igrutinović

Did the Biden administration pick up at least some of the pieces of the broken liberal international order caused in some part by his predecessor Trump? Has he been acting according to his and his party’s promises during the presidential-elections campaign or has he stood by his predecessor’s decisions? And especially how much was done or “repaired” in the realm of arms control? These are the questions authors will try to answer in this paper. They will draw their conclusion by analyzing...

Marina T. Kostić

The withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan during August 2021 puts an end to the longest war that America has ever fought and the first phase of the Global War on Terrorism. In this regard, two important questions arise, which we will try to answer in this paper. First, what are the main external and internal consequences that the United States has faced due to engaging in the “War on Terror”? Second, did the U.S. achieve its goals in that war? The external effects we have identified...

Stevan Nedeljković

After twenty long and frustrating years, America has finally withdrawn completely from Afghanistan. This paper gives an overview of American actions in Afghanistan, starting with the George W. Bush administration and the invasion of American troops, assassination of Osama bin Laden and suppression of Al-Qaeda’s activities, through the Obama administration, during which the ISAF mission ended and throughout which the withdrawal of American troops was announced. After that, an overview of the ac...

Aleksandar V. Gajić

The topic of this paper is foreign policy course towards Russia employed by the incumbent United States president, Joseph Biden, during his first year in office. Motivated by the recent Biden-Putin bilateral summit and Biden’s remark on the U.S. and Russia as “two great powers”, the author presents a research question whether this event could be observed as the beginning of a “reset light” approach in Washington’s Russia policy. Unlike the previous “reset” of U.S.-Russian relatio...

Vladimir Trapara

The authors of this paper examine the possible change of course in the United States foreign policy and strategic adjustment towards Russia in international relations. Although the United States were the sole superpower in the world after the end of the Cold War, the contemporary international system is marked by growing multipolarity. This change in the international arena is caused by the rise of two revisionist great powers – China and Russia. Although China represents the US’ main geopol...

Pavle Nedić

The United States and the United Kingdom have special political, economic, military and cultural relations. The new American administration is restoring priority to multilateralism and old alliances, and the British authorities have announced an expansion of international engagement. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight against climate change, the growth of China’s influence, and threats to cybersecurity are the biggest international challenges in the view of both states. The US and...

Zuzanna Ptaszyńska

Many analysts expected a radical change in President Joseph Biden’s foreign policy compared to the foreign policy of previous President Donald Trump. A year after his electoral victory, opinions about how much Biden actually changed in the US foreign policy vary from those who see it as a revolutionary change to those who perceive it as a difference only in tone and continuity in the majority of crucial policy aspects. This paper aims to contribute to this debate by addressing the issues of co...

Milan Krstić

Book review: Dragan Simeunović. 2019. Istorija srpske političke misli / novi vek. Novi Sad: Pravoslavna reč, 587....

Dejan Jovanović

Book review: Nebojša Vladisavljević. 2019. Uspon i pad demokratije posle Petog oktobra. Beograd: Arhipelag, 359 str....

Dejan Bursać

Book review: Shoshana Zuboff. 2018. The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. New York: PublicAffairs, 704 str....

Dr. Vesna Stanković Pejnović

Book review: Valter Kasper. 2020. Da svi jedno budu – putevima jedinstva. Beograd: Beogradska nadbiskupija, str. 255....

Dr. Vladan Stanković

Book review: Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. 2019. Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 540....

Dr. Nikola Mladenović

The Serbian uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875) marked the beginning of the chain of uprisings and wars of the Balkan nations against Ottoman rule, and of the conflicts of the Great Powers, which brought Europe to the brink of the Great War (1875‒1878). The crisis was temporarily settled at the Congress of Berlin. However, the national rights of the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be atthe centre of the crisis of 1914, which, through the new Great Powers conflict, will erupt into th...

Miloš O. Ković

Thе paper presents and analyzes the social and political thought of Karl Popper. But since this thought may be unique in that it transmits or applies insights from another field in which Popper gained an enviable reputation – from the philosophy of science and the theory of knowledge, to the field of social theory and practice – it is necessary to point out some main characteristics of his epistemology. It is found that the defining property of what Popper sees as a successful method, prima...

Predrag Krstić

Digitalization is changing labour market relations by calling into question the concept of a classic employment relationship that relies heavily on a bilateral employment contract of indefinite duration. Also, on the other hand, digitalization leads to a significant polarization in the labour market between highly qualified professionals, for whose work there is a growing need, and low-skilled workers, who face increasing obstacles when looking for employment. Platform work is an atypical, ne...

Bojan Urdarević

The aim of this paper is to describe, through the application of scientific research methods, the human resource management process in the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia, which contributes to the development of the Emergency Management Sector and, consequently, to excrete those elements of the human resource management function that are not effective enough to achieve the competencies of the Emergency Management Sector in the Ministry. Therefore, the subject of the research i...

Katarina Tomašević

At the beginning of the work, the basic determinants of the migration phenomenon are given, and then the complex and far-reaching implications of contemporary migratory movements from the Middle East and North Africa to the European continent are pointed out with emphasis on the European continent. In the continuation of the work, political, social and security aspects of this phenomenon are being analyzed and scientifically elaborated. Special attention is paid to the role of political subject...

Dragan Živaljević

The social implications of information communication technology (ICT), the Internet and cyberspace depend on economic, legal, and policy decisions. The Pandemic made a new reality that is shaping the Internet as it becomes institutionalized in each domain of its usage. This paper discusses the new reality of social existence during COVID-19 using three levels of analysis: macro, mezo and micro level analysis. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing became part of everyday life worldwide ...

Dr. Ivana Luknar

The right to privacy, in private and family life, home and correspondence, as one of the human rights, is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia and numerous international acts. Employees, as human beings, also enjoy this right. However, due to the modernization of work, which is a product of globalization, the right to privacy in the workplace has become questionable. The work before us deals with the questions of to what extent this right of the employee can be limited and fo...

Mirjana Popovic

The history of administrative dispute in the Serbian legal system is the history of the development of the constitutional political system from the second half of the 19th century until today. The institute of administrative dispute adapted to the forms of government and state organization, political ideologies, and social circumstances. The lack of two tiers of the administrative dispute, and the impossibility of using an appeal as a regular legal remedy to remove a violation of rights where...

Predrag Dimitrijević

The paper identifies protection mechanisms for the Serbian religious and cultural heritage in Kosovo defined by the Ahtisaari Plan as the basic normative framework and analyses its application. The authors start with the claim that the status of cultural and religious heritage was unjustifiably omitted from the Brussels dialogue and that this topic, due to identity-related sensitivity, can determine the citizens’ side when supporting a possible final agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. In...

Stefan Surlić

The first among Green parties in Serbia was founded in 1990, after their foundation we can notice something like "flourishing" of the Green parties because in 2009, 26 parties of this type were registered in Serbia. Today, we can find five such parties in the Register of political parties. In recent years, we have witnessed changes on the scene of Greens because two parties managed to reach the Serbian Parliament, by winning one or two mandates. The period that is the most successful for the Gre...

Dr. Jelena Todorović Lazić

Serbia filed for EU membership after the Stabilization and Association Agreement was confirmed by the European Parliament in 2011, and it was granted candidate status on March 1, 2012. The first intergovernmental conference between Serbia and the EU was held in Brussels on January 21, 2014, marking the beginning of accession negotiations at the political level. The process of negotiations for membership in the European Union implies the participation of a large number of institutions of the E...

Elvira Kovač

The paper focuses on the normative analysis of anti - corruption institutional engineering in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Based on the analysis of the content of the national anti-corruption normative acts of the post-Yugoslav republics, the findings on the institutional logic of combating corruption as an informal institution and systemic deviation are reached. The effects of preventive and repressive suppression of corruption in the post-Yugoslav republics indicate that the best re...

Dr. Tijana Perić Diligenski

Gender-based violence is considered one of the most widespread and drastic forms of violation of women's human rights and violation of human dignity and is one of the most common forms of discrimination against women. This paper focuses on presenting a set of internationally transferable standards important for the practice of social services with women affected by partner violence and to analyze national documents and guidelines for the actions of relevant institutions in cases of violence agai...

Ana Đurđević

Hunger and food insecurity, despite global initiatives and national welfare actions, remains the key social problem in the 21st century. Due to the economic and migrant crisis and considering that poverty and unemployment represent the greatest risks to hunger, insecure and poor nutrition, satisfying basic human needs for food has involved multiple welfare sectors in Europe in the last decade. Тhe welfare state has traditionally provided support to the poor, with the non-governmental sector eme...

Suzana Mihajlovic Babic

The main subject of this paper is the living and working conditions of informal collectors of secondary raw materials. The aim is to show the specific difficulties that this sensitive group of workers encounters in their life and work. The conducted research (for the needs of the master's thesis) was realized in Šabac, in the period October-November 2018. It is an empirical research, of the action type, in the field of social policy. In relation to the degree of control, it is a field research,...

Jelena Birmančević

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs at an early age and lasts a lifetime. From the etiological and phenomenological point of view, children with autism represent a complex grouping in the population of persons with developmental disabilities. In addition to the education provided to children with autism spectrum disorders within the educational process, the social protection system has recognized the day care service as a service that adequately affects all aspe...

Petar Jordanov

The paper presents the Social Welfare Information System (SWIS) – Social Card, digital transformation of centres for social work in the service of the social and child protection system reform in Montenegro and the benefits of this system for beneficiaries, employees in centres for social work and policy makers. It is a capital project of the Montenegrin Government that enabled the implementation of the reform of the social and child protection system, with the aim of providing the highest qua...

Ida Kolinović

The paper analyzes the state and structure of the economies of the Western Balkans, their characteristics, as well as their mutual influence, which is primarily expressed through the foreign trade within the CEFTA 2006 agreement. The author gives a comparative analysis of the state of the economies of the Western Balkans and explains the dominant role of Serbia in this region. Despite the fact that all observed countries trade the most with EU countries, Serbia stands out as their second most im...

Dr. Stevan Rapaić

Osvrt na knjigu Poreklo porodice, privatne svojine i države Fridriha Engelsa (Friedrich Engels.1884. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. New York: Pathfinder Press, 180 p.)...

Dr. Ivan Matić

Book Review: Vukasović, Dejana. 2020. Constructing a (EU)ropean Identity. The Balkans and the Western Balkans as the Other. Beograd: Institut za političke studije, str. 194....

Dr. Sanja Lazarević Radak

Book review: Julian Jackson. 2018. A Certain Idea of France The life of Charles de Gaulle. London: Penguin Random House UK, pp. 887....

Dr. Aleksandra Kolaković

Dealing with the state is as old as the state itself. Its origin, development and constitutional structure show the extent to which the state issue is important in theoretical thought. There are a large number of topics in the literature that try to explain the essence of the state issue, starting from individual aspects of its functioning. There does not seem to be an author, in legal and political theory, who has not tried to make a go in this field. The giant of our legal, political, sociolog...

Predrag Terzić

The subject of this article is the relationship between power and justice in human society, speaking in a broader sense. In a narrower sense, the relationship between the feeling of inferiority, inseparable from an individual, from which, due to a combination of fear and the need for greater safety of the body, a desire for power is born, which in most cases is never satisfied. The aim of this article is to show that there is a connection between an insufficient amount of accumulated power, whic...

Dejan Jovanović

In the following text authors analyze the growing tendency of Sino-American rivalry to further spiral out of control and potentially lead to deterioration of countries’ future relations. The rivalry is especially evident in the region of Asian-Pacific which geopolitical traits additionally intensify the conflicting interests of these great powers. For the US this means further delegitimization of its power, while for China this can solidify its growing leadership in the region. The conflicting...

Stanislav Stojanović

Year 2019 brought peculiar situation to a small Latin American state of Venezuela. A legally elected president Nicolas Maduro governs the state, while more than 50 countries in the world – including the United States and most of Venezuelan Latin American neighbours – recognize Juan Guaido as such. In this paper, causes, actors and prospects of Venezuelan presidential crisis are analyzed. Among the causes, several are identified: Hugo Chavez’s death in 2013; a sharp drop in oil prices in 20...

Vladimir Trapara

In this paper, the authors research possible abuse of artificial intelligence for extremist and terrorist purposes. Having the growing digitalization and robotization of the society in mind, it is completely realistic to be expecting a growing abuse of artificial intelligence in the security context, which will definitely be abused by extremist and terrorist groups. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be divided into five basic categories: 1) interactive AI (example: personal assistants such as

Dr. Marija Đorić, Assistant Director for Scientific Research

The liability of States for pecuniary damage caused by a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Convention requires the cumulative fulfillment of three requirements. These requirements are not explicitly set out in the Convention but have been formulated in the extensive case-law of the ECtHR, by relying on tort law of the State Parties. The first requirement for liability is that there is a breach of the Convention as a wrongful act of the state. A violation of the Convention exists if the S...

Nebojša Raičević

On the ethnic map of Serbia, the Vlach ethnic community occupies a special place, specific in many of its characteristics (origin, language, tradition, customs, demographic development, etc.). The paper studies the ethnogenesis of the Vlachs, through the prism of complex historical, migratory, ethnic, ethnogenetic, integration and assimilation processes, by considering different theories, attitudes and opinions often diametrically opposed, which implies the conclusion that this topic has not yet...

Dr. Nada Raduški, Deputy President of the Scientific Council

The subject of this paper deals with the research methodology in the political sciences, from definition of topic, research question, subject, goals, hypotheses, methods, as well as the justification of the research. A research question is part of a research problem that narrows this part to one or more specific questions from which the subject of research is derived. The subject of research, in addition to the theoretical determination, also refers to the spatial, temporal and scientific-discip...

Vera Arežina

The genesis of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans over the past two and a half decades has had different stages, with long-term crises and problems related to the development of its own concept. Therefore, in this paper, the authors have analysed its achievements so far, with special emphasis on the period after the transformation of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe into the Regional Cooperation Council in 2008, as well as on the attempt to reconceptualize cooperation within t...

Dragan Đukanović

Mount Athos is a part of Greece from 1912 after Greeks liberated it from Turkish rule. According to the Constitutional Charter of the Holy Mountain of Athos (1924), the Legislative Decree оn the Ratification of the Constitutional Charter of Mount Athos (1926) and the Constitution of Greece (1927) – Mount Athos is a self-governed part of the Greek State under the direct canonical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople (Istanbul). Thus, While Mount Athos is in Greece, the...

Aleksandar Raković

Greater Albanian irredentist activity between the two world wars had the strong support of fascist forces, interested in breaking up the newly formed Yugoslav state. It was in the first place fascist Italy and the Third Communist International (Comintern) based in Moscow. The Greater Albania "Kosovo Committee" merged with the Comintern in the early 1920s. Italy directly supported the actions of Albanian terrorists (Kachaks) in Yugoslavia in the years after the First World War. "The leaders of th...

Radoslav Gaćinović

The energy policy of Saudi Arabia is discussed in this dissertation. Saudi Arabia as a state riched in oil, represents one of the world’s key factor in the energy field. However, oil is an energy gent which greatly contributes to environmental decline and climate changes. States and their citizens, well aware of potentional catastrophic consequences caused by overuse of unclean energy gents, are gradually turning towards renewable, green sources of energy which don’t violate our environment....

Aleksandar Klaric

The article focuses on the origins and further evolution of the Church Schism in Russia as well as on the legal status of the representatives of the Old Believers in Russia. Church reforms initiated by patriarch Nikon and the local Church Council in 1666-1667 banned all elements of the old Russian church tradition and outlawed Old Believers. Russian legislation viewed Old Believers as church and state criminals. However, in spite of strong discrimination from state and official church, Old Belie...

Bendin Alexander Yurievich

Cold War rivalry spilled into space when the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, leading to space being recognised as the fourth domain of warfare. As the monopoly of the US and former Soviet Union eroded, it created space for new actors to emerge from Asia, where China and India due to their investemnts in space technology as early as 1950’s had a significant headstart. The paper traces the evolution of the space programs of both the Asian countries and identifies how they are tailored to meet ...

Rushali Saha

There are many examples of historical constructs, which have been serving the ideology of „Croatian state law“ for centuries. This paper is a continuation of the consideration of the most important Croatian mythologems that have served as building blocks of the national identity of Croats. Some of them, mentioned in the last issue of this magazine („Croatia to the Drina“ and „Red Croatia“), have long since evolved into factoids; they are woven into the „collective memory“ of the ...

Dario Kršić

Dragoljub Jovanović is in many ways a unique person in the turbulent political history of the first and second Yugoslavia. There are few people in politics, such as Dragoljub Jovanović, who were ready to follow their beliefs, work hard on their achievement and make a sacrifice for that. In this paper, we strived to present his political activity in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and to present his ideological beliefs and the way in which he fought for them. ...

Nikola Živić

         Welfare state was one of the most important political and economic projects of the twentieth century. Its development has contributed to the spread of communism in the east and the manifestation of certain weaknesses of the market economy model in the west. After the great economic crisis of the 1930s, which broke out in the United States and expanded globally, political and economic thinkers began to search for a model that would be able to correct the weakness of the ...

Rajko Petrović

The connection between terrorism and organized crime is one of the most prevalent threats to global security since the end of the 20th century, which is most visible in the cooperation between terrorist groups and drug trafficking groups. The main theoretical problem in the research of this relationship is how to explain the difference in the motivation for terrorism, on one hand, and organized crime, on the other. The motivation for terrorism is always ideological, and it is oriented to make so...

Kosara Stevanović

In this part of the paper we analysed the impact and implications that the crisis caused by COVID-19 has had on transformation of the Serbian political cultural identity and President Vučić’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now almost one year into a global pandemic it is clear that early-warning outbreak detection did not successfully contain COVID-19 and that, unlike in China, the Serbian, as well as other’s countries system of public health governance underestima...

Dr. Sanja Stošić

The author started from the initial assumption that political relations in B&H are basically connected to the relations between the three constituent peoples (Bosniak’s, Serbs and Croats), and the two entities (Federation B&H and Republic Srpska). This starting point enabled the author to choose the political relations of the three constituent peoples and the two entities as the subject of the research, taking as a standard the Dayton Agreement from 1995. and the Paris-Dayton Peace Tre...

Dr. Vladan Stanković

The article provides an overview of key issues that determine the general context of the discussion. The analysis covers the internal regulations of the Republic of Serbia (RS) in two areas: inland waterways traffic and environmental protection. When it comes to inland waterways traffic regulations is analyzed from the standpoint of the environmental protection criteria. Particular attention is drawn to the provisions regulating the obligations and rights of different subjects in terms of measur...

Dragoljub C. Todić

In this paper we have shown how much the role of women has changed since the period between the two world wars and gaining the right to vote after the Second World War in Serbia. We pointed out that in the last twenty years many documents have been adopted, such as the Law on Gender Equality, the Labor Law, the Law on Prevention of Harassment at Work, the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination and others, seminars and conferences have been held, although many wo...

Vera Arežina

The National Security Strategy of the Republic of Serbia views the rule of law and economic development as important contributors to social stability and preventive strengthening of state security. The rule of law was perceived as a „European value“ and the Strategy paid attention to it on a declarative level. It is seen as a „civilizational value“, but we do not encounter efforts to operationalize and implement it in the political and legal space of the state. On the other hand...

Dr. Vladan Stanković

In this paper, we deal with the essential question of whether and in what way the current National security strategy of the Republic of Serbia properly valorizes the geopolitical identity of Serbia and the complex geopolitical position of the Serbian people in the Balkans. We define geopolitical identity as the identification of geopolitical self-awareness and continuity in the time and space of a nation, as a relatively objectifying identity-geographical property of a national or religious grou...

Dr. Ljubiša Despotović, President of the Scientific Council

Grand strategies are once again gaining interest among academic community and decision makers alike, as it is clear that the World in the 21st century stands on the verge of new instabilities. In addition, new asymmetric threats, which are difficult to predict today, will come from cyberspace, natural disasters, pandemics, major technical and technological accidents and other dystopian realities already visible today. In the past, it was thought that grand strategies were reserved exclusively fo...

Zoran Dragišić

In the latest National Security Strategy of the Republic of Serbia, the part related to national interests defined overall seven most important national interests further operationalized in the part “The National Security Policy” (Article 4 of the Strategy). National interests articulated through this Strategy are clearly delineated with their vocational meaning, but through careful analysis we will notice that all of them have distinct causality. Therefore, the implementation of any of dele...

Milovan Subotić

In the recent years, a growing number of the developed states has incorporated the human security concept in their national security policies. Likewise, this trend has been noticed in a certain degree in the Republic Serbia since adopting the National Security Strategy in 2009. Yet, with the adoption of the new National Security Strategy in 2019, there has been some changes in that aspect. Having in mind the role and significance of the National Security Strategy in polistrategic system in the R...

Nevena Stanković

Economic security as a subsystem of national security contains economic, financial, social, political, security and other elements of protection of the interests of individuals and the community. Studying the goals of protection, economic security can be defined as part of the function of the national security system which represents the protection of the economic interest of the national economy from all types, forms and bearers of threats, ie it represents the system of economic security prote...

Goran Milošević

Considering the concept of security as one of the vital functions of the state and the great importance of communication flows in its structure, the text discusses the role of information and public opinion in the processes of protection of national values. In a multipolar geopolitical environment, the nature of international relations is gradually being redesigned, as well as the instruments of national power. Digital technologies are becoming more and more integrated into modern information an...

Zoran Jevtović

The subject of this paper is to research correlations and causalities between the individual perception and security consciousness and higher forms of collective security, such as national security, while taking into consideration both general and specific aspects that affect both individual and national security. In this theoretical research, we have used methods of analysis, structural and functional; synthesis; descriptive method; and normative method – applied to respective subsections tha...

Željko Đ. Bjelajac

When defining the concept of sustainable development The Government of the Republic of Serbia accepted the narrowest possible interpretation of its social dimension, so it was not possible to think more seriously about the political vectors that influence the direction of development. Therefore, in a certain circumstancies, not only economic growth is called into question, but also the national se...

Dušan Proroković

Greater involvement of marginalized groups in the local community can provide a well-organized network of support for all actors who are obliged to provide conditions for the realization of human rights within the framework of their activities on the principles of accessibility, participation and equality. In order to work on improving existing practices, it is necessary to define problems in achieving the rights of marginalized groups in the local community and to make a cross-section of the cu...

Slobodan Martinović

Families of children with disabilities has a key role in meeting the vital needs of the child and the main agent of their inclusion into society. To smooth these roles, maintain quality of life and prevent the emergence of social exclusion, violence is a necessary social support. The aim of this paper is to analyze the contents of the relevant regulations and available literature that insight into the levels and forms that provide these families through the provision of formal support. Analysi...

Ankica Simona N. Kovačević

The research conducted within the project “Intergeneration exchange in Serbia“ was the first in Serbia to deal with this topic. This research represents a starting point for further researches on the topic of intergeneration solidarity. The space for new studies is wide for each individual dimension, especially for issues related to social interactions. Demographic trends lead to changes in the long-term care system and the growing importance of informal forms of help and support which are c...

Milica Glišić

The subject of analysis in this paper is the asylum policy in the Republic of Serbia. The aim is to analyze the asylum policy with a focus on the existing normative, strategic and institutional framework in this area and their harmonization with the standards and regulations of the European Union and international documents. The theoretical framework of the analysis is a concept of migration between welfare and citizenship that simultaneously includes and excludes migrants. The methodological ap...

Danijela Pavlović

The subject of this paper is a theoretical review of the history of human communication, reviewed from the time of its visible development, to this day, and examined through the analysis of the literature of authors who wrote about it. We proceed from the basic definition of the term, in order to explain, through further text, the periods of the beginnings of the communication practice of people through history, which leads to the goal of work.The aim of the research was - to find out through th...

Ljupka Katana

The subject of the analysis of this work are Euroregions as specific forms of transnational cooperation in the European Union. Over the past decades, the European Union has been working intensively to implement the principles of decentralization, that is, to bring the authorities understood as service providers to citizens. Strengthening it’s regional capacities is one of the steps taken by the European Union. In this context, Euroregions should also be seen as forms of cooperation between dif...

Rajko Petrović

Dual education is a form of secondary vocational education, and duality implies that education and training are implemented in two places, at school and at the employer, i.e. at the training center that corresponds to the certain job. The dual model of education in the Republic of Serbia is not a rewritten law from some country with examples of good practice; but adopted in accordance with the education system of our country, its social, institutional, economic and economic frameworks. This mode...

MА Nikola Lazić

In the previous period, the sexuality education as a topic vanished from the public discourse in Serbia. Neither political parties nor other societal agents display a particular interest in considering sexuality education. Should we exclude relatively weak advocacy actions from civil society and rather occasional, vociferous attacks from obscure right-wing political movements, sexuality education draws only minimum attention in Serbia whatsoever. Taking into account the alarmingly poor situation...

Andrija Mladenović

The public service as we know it today is based on a North-Trevelyan report from the nineteenth century that condemned the incompetence of public employees as a consequence of nepotism in the United Kingdom. Reforms followed in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and in parallel, the United States eliminatedthe spoils system and replaced it with the merit system. According to this system, employment and advancement in the public service depends ...

Milica Škorić

Public administration represents operations and practice of the government through management, administration and implementation of government policies having in mind public interests and the society as a whole. However, analysis of the political system and public administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) reveals that this definition is rather “modified” when it comes to the mentioned country. Even though public administration reform is one of the priorities for BIH, the reasons why it ...

Sara Rajić

Given the fact that the development of science and technology is one of the most distinctive feature of the modern age, it is of great, not merely theoretical, importance to re-examine the meaning, scope and position of science in contemporary democratic societies. Firstly, the auhors analyse and compare traditional understanding of science with the so called new image of science within the contemporary philosophy of science and epistemology. This kind of approach is presented through F...

Dr. Višnja Stojadinović

The article discusses the problem of ethnical nationalism, also known as irredentism, as a flagrant problem that requires urgent and concerted actions of the world community. The article is subdivided into the introduction and four parts. The first part focuses on the definition of ethnical nationalism as it is understood by leading scientists in this field. The second part analyses the role that the League of Nations played as the main “peacekeeper” and those mistakes it made. In the third ...

Sergej V. Ušakov

Italian policy in South and East Mediterranean could be understood best by applying the Italian neoclassical school of geopolitics. Author first explaines validity of this approach among other possible theoretical backgrounds. He adopts content analysis, economic statistics and geopolitical analysis in order to research the issue. Italy is important player in the macro-region of Mediterranean. Particularly troubled and challenging processes in this part of the world require particular attention ...

Slobodan Janković

The revitalized power of Germany after unification, according to the forecasts of neorealists, necessarily implied the aspiration to establish itself as a central power in Europe. As the neorealist predictions of the "Balkanization" of Europe were not materialized, that requires to adopt a different perspective, which will offer cultural and historical dimensions, contrary to neorealist acultural and ahistorical approach. The social constructivism as a theoretical approach and the concept of str...

Dušan Kesić

The coronavirus pandemic that shook the world in early 2020 caught Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of a sharp political and scientific debate on the need to revise the Dayton Peace Agreement on the one hand and its defense and affirmation on the other. On the eve of marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of an international treaty that halted the civil war in the central republic of the former Yugoslavia, Western diplomats, regional political leaders and experts raised the issue of ...

Djordje Vuković

The article deals with Kosovo policy of the Serbian parties during the early 2000s. A majority of the mainstream parties supported the idea of fixed borders in the Balkans. They also supported the policy "standards before status", according to which the final status of Kosovo should have been addressed only after the UN standards for the territory had been reached. However, the above mentioned policy suited proponents of the territory's independence in the international community, and in Kosovo....

Dr. Nikola Mladenović

Organizational culture has a great influence on the efficiency of the organization and its values ​​initiate or prevent innovation. Innovations in military activity are key to the development and maintenance of military, and military power is crucial for preserving national security. Innovations in military activity are necessary because states exist in a dynamic, uncertain and competitive strategic environment in which stagnation and insufficient military capabilities can result in reduced ...

Vangel Milkovski

In the era of globalization, the international spatial and social mobility processes are intensified, according the fact the World become diasporical. We are faced with the expansion of global migration phenomenon in the 21^st century. The science and researchers in the contemporancy make the solutions for those challenges, increasing numerous project researches and publications dedicated to noticed mega-phenomenon. In this article was depicted the trying in transdisciplinar basing of ...

Dragana Lj. Mitrović

New movements direct their actions towards civilian authorities and politicians who have the power to realize the goals of the movement, but there is often a conflict between the movement and the government, that is, between the movement and the established society that the authorities represent. These movements believe that political establishment has failed and that they can no longer represent satisfactory solutions to demanding political problems. The three most important approaches of socia...

MА Nikola Lazić

As one of the youngest countries in Europe, Montenegro is a particularly interesting example of how a symbolic competition between two nation-building projects takes place in the political context. The issue of Montenegrin national identity has been at the heart of Montenegrin politics since the late 19th century, but there has never been a clear consensus on who exactly Montenegrins are. Supported by the reconstructed meaning of the Montenegrin nation, the newly formed Montenegrin national cons...

Branislav Milosavljević

In my article I would like to analyze a tradition created by Alexis de Tocqueville which Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn called “true liberalism.”  According to this political theory, “liberty” and “equality” do not complement each other but are in fact contradictions. In my lecture I would like to analyze how the words “democracy” and “liberty” were evaluated in the texts of the early liberals, how and why they began to be equated with each other. In this article, I will examine ...

Zoltán Pető

The article assesses the impact of populism on the functioning of non-state actors in the European Union.The main aim of this paper is to verify whether populism has had an impact on the functioning of non-state actors in the European Union. The article focuses onthe non-state actors involved in European and country-level lobbying. The article also attempts to determine the place of non-state actors within the institutional system of the European Union in the context of the rise of populism in E...

Jarosław Filip Czub

The Annual Attitude Examination Survey consisting of 366 questions was deployed on nationally representative sample in Serbia to get 2608 responses on the Oxford Happiness Inventory and Multiple Lickert scale questions concerning attitudes, fears, media use and closeness of different social categories to the participants. Research results confirm all hypotheses. Quantity of television use is negatively correlated to happiness. As for the quality of newspapers use, those consuming contents such a...

LJubiša Bojić

The key idea of this article is to present a case study of reporting of newspaper BH Dani that were battling the dominant ethno-nationalist style of reporting. Methodologically speaking, this project uses content analysis and the process of developing and grouping the ideas is very important. War in Bosnia is the societal and political context of this research. A number of key authors that theorized the idea of propaganda and media influence on thinking and attitudes as well as persuasion is int...

Ivica Mladenović

In this paper we will present the results and analysis of the first exit poll that has been done in Serbia, or more precisely, in Belgrade municipality of Voždovac. During election day of the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, we collected data from 2969 respondents in 40 voting spots. We applied number of statistical and data collection procedures in order to improve precision of predication. The collected data provided the evidence of a very accurate prediction. Beside the prediction of ele...

Miloš Bešić

The article examines whether reflectivist approach to epistemology in the study of warfare can amend some weaknesses of the rationalist/positivist canon of mainstream International Relations (IR) theories. The author argues for the existence of a new epistemic situation for the IR researcher: an ontological transformation of the military profession in post-industrial societies that has created a sacralised civic duty to fight in war. The research of warfare is becoming more focused on the indivi...

Dr. Srđan T. Korać

Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on measures for further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (“New START”) is the last pillar of the arms control regime on which the end of the Cold War and the new world order rested. Its expiration on 5 February 2021 is a top security challenge and indicates a possible new strategic arms race. However, can the United States and Russia still preserve the existing strategic arms control by extending the T...

Marina T. Kostić

Niklas Luhmann articulates the basic elements of his authentic theoretical position as criticism of, as he calls them, classical sociology or classical organisation theory. While within these orientations, (social) systems are mainly interpreted as centralised entities whose structures are stabilised by purpose determined at the top, Luhmann, in his general theory of social systems privileges internal differentiation in which subsystems autonomously define their purposes, making society more fle...

Milorad Đurić

The aim of this paper is examination of general relationship between political ideology and radical environmental activism, with a special focus on considering the extent of influence and the exact position of the politics in the domain of mentioned eco-activism. Within the first four parts, the general characteristics of radical environmentalism, as well as its relationship with the political left-wing, political right-wing and apolitical/anti-political beliefs are analyzed, while the final par...

Aleksandar Matković

Effective environmental protection cannot be imagined without direct management of such protection by state authorities through legal prohibitions and orders, permits, approvals and exemptions, mandatory notifications, control, and repression measures of the state administration, etc. Yet, in modern environmental systems, instruments of indirect influence on the addressees of norms are gaining increasing importance, with the aim of influencing their desirable behaviour through citizens' awarenes...

Jelena Šogorov Vučković

The literature that explores the representations of the Balkans is based on the assumption that the Balkans were constructed, imagined or invented. This claim is usually accompanied by the attempts to highlight the discrepancy between physical and imaginary geography and to point out the gap in semantics between the Balkan Peninsula and the Balkans. While the first one functions as physical geography, the other one refers to a place populated by representations, rather than people. Following the...

Dr. Sanja Lazarević Radak

The authors will point out some possible models for solving an extremely complex problem, which for decades has been an open issue for which, without much success, a mutually acceptable solution is being sought - Kosovo and Metohija. The paper analyzes three possible options, with different intensity of relations between the Republic of Serbia and so called Kosovo. In the first case, which implies the strongest relationship between Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija, this issue could be resolved by ...

Bojan Bojanić

The paper analyzes the relationship between freedom of expression and the right to respect for honour and reputation. It was pointed out the importance that is given to freedom of expression nowadays, and it was especially considered the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. On that occasion, the difference that exists between public and private personalities was pointed out, as well as the doubts that may arise from the distinction between factual statements and value judgments. When ...

Goran P. Ilić

Ruth Breeze, Carmen Llamas Saíz (eds.), Metaphor in political conflict. Populism and discourse, Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA), Pamplona, 2020, 212 p....

Dejana M. Vukasović

Philip Cunliffe, Cosmopolitan Dystopia: International Intervention and the Failure of the West. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020, 228 p....

Mladen Lišanin

Folklore, music and dances of the Vlachs of Northeastern Serbia, is a part of collective ethnic identity and tradition of the Vlachs in Serbia. Vlachs both musical and ritual folklore have their roots on Celtic-Thracian ancestry. Because of its various expressive forms, Vlachs folklore is interesting of many nations outside Serbia. Folklore of the Vlachs in Serbia is one of the most unique in the world. The festival “Crnorečje in sing and play” is included in the calendar of international U...

Miodrag Perić

The issue aims at supplementing investigations of mass communication with political and economic analysis of events linked with toughening of management in foreign media sector over the latest year – basing on relevant examples....

Vladimir Sapunov

The European Union's conditionality is a mechanism that the EU practices as part of its own enlargement policy in order to influence the internal political and economic reforms of the candidate country. The mentioned policy was a great success in the process of EU enlargement to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. However, this success has not been repeated in Serbia's accession process. Serbia refuses to harmonize its foreign policy with the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy with...

Marko Mandić

Economic histоry, created in recent times, has provided a completetely different angle of view of medieval history, which shows that the Middle Ages is not, as it is often called, a dark interlude between magnificent antiquity and brilliant Renaissance, but one of the most inventive societies in history; at least when it comes to technology. From the angle of economic history, we look at the Serbian Middle Ages – the economic base and the social structure. When we talk about the Serbian Middl...

Dr. Đuro Bodrožić

The destruction of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia began with some more attitudes from the Serbian social democratic movement and continued in the communist movement, which treated Kosovo as an occupied territory by the Serbian bourgeoisie. This destruction began with the Decision of the Fifth National Conference of the CPY in Zagreb in 1940, and then more specifically continued with various political and legal acts in 1944 and 1945, with the creation of autonomous provinces within Serbia. The 1...

Branko Nadoveza

In order for a parliament to be considered democratic, the basic function it needs to satisfy is to adequately perform a representative function, i.e. to adequately represent the citizens of a country. It should also meet another criterion - to reflect the social diversity of the population in terms of gender, language, religion, ethnicity or some other politically important characteristics. There should be mechanisms that would give additional rights to the representatives of minority groups in...

MА Nikola Lazić

Author analyzes origin and genesis of the party systems of three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with a special focus on specific ideological misbalance. Namely, in two of the three former Soviet republics, left-wing parties fail to participate in the executive branch and often underperform in the elections. Cabinets of Estonia and Latvia have comprised of mostly right-wing or center-right parties for almost the entire period since independence. The opposite case is Lithuania, w...

Dejan Bursać

The subject of this paper is external audit, more precisely the activities analysis of the State Audit Institution in the control of public finances of local self-governments, with special emphasis on the field of public procurement. The State Audit Institution, which is responsible for external audit in Serbia, was established by the Law on State Audit Institution in 2005. By analyzing the activities and competencies of the State Audit Institution, this paper will provide answers to the next qu...

Agatina Petrović

In the history of every country can emerge some events that represent objectively the highest level of danger for the constitutional order of this country or even for its literal survival. In these cases, the common legal regime must give way to the exceptional legal regime that can appear under different forms. Within the French constitutional order, the article 16 of Constitution contains the most radical form of this kind of legal regime that we have designated as a “nuclear weapon” of th...

MA Dušan Gujaničić

In this paper, we consider nationalism, national state, and nation from a symbolic perspective, as opposed to the usual political, legal, or sociological one. We noticed that there is a gap in research, with not many studies taking this approach. Symbols are studied by the culture sciences, traditionally ethnology and anthropology, which also study the phenomenon of a people. This is important because there is a wide consensus that a community formed by a people is a stage in the development of ...

Dr. Jelena Miljković Matić

In modern Russia, no ideology would be immanent to Russian civilization and the Russian state. This situation is largely caused by different interpretations and concepts of the terms "state ideology" and "national idea". This difference in the interpretation of the term reflects both the difference in the interpretation of the problem, and the difference in the aspects of the analysis. In this paper, an attempt was made to establish a terminological comparison and the relationship of this phenom...

Victoriia V. Kutko

Following the First World War in accord with the right of the peoples to their self-determination two important international documents London Agreement (1915) and Fourteen Points Woodroo Wilson (1918) were offered to Serbia to establish the state on almost whole her ethnic-linguistic territory. The Serbian government accepted none of the abovementioned documents. Instead of them, the king Aleksandar and the government of Nikola Pasic had unified Serbs with Slovenians and Croat...

Dr. Momčilo Subotić

Starting from different theories of economic growth, the author aims to show that the growth of economic inequality is one of the significant factors influencing economic growth. There are numerous studies that analyse the impact of economic growth on economic inequality. Relatively less attention is devoted to the analysis of the relationship of these two phenomena in the opposite direction. The basic assumption from which the author starts is that, if we look at the impact of economic inequali...

MA Andrea Matijević

This paper discusses some of the most important Croatian mythologems that operate as building blocks of Serbophobia: „Red Croatia”, „the Coronation of King Tomislav” and „Croatia to the river Drina”. Croatian scientific authorities constructed them mainly in the 19th century and weaved them into the „collective memory“ of their own nation. They evolved very quickly into factoids, and as „scientific dogmas“ they were implemented in the Croatian educational system. By mythologi...

Dario Kršić

The aim of this study is to identify (using focus groups) what are the aspects of the quality of life of homeless, as well as which aspects of life are most important to them. Content analysis was used to analyze the respondents' answers. The sample consists of 43 respondents aged 25 to 65 years. The following aspects of quality of life have been identified: health and health care, living conditions, financial situation, employment opportunities, social relations, recreational activities and hob...

Ana Slavković

In this paper we discuss the impact and implications that the crisis caused by COVID-19 has on transformation of the Chinese political culture related to China’s change and ambition to displace the United States as the leading world power, as well as on the Serbian political cultural identity related to its change in policy framework amidst the ongoing pandemic war. However, due to the complexity of the topic, the second part of the research related to the analysis of Preside...

Dr. Sanja Stošić

The author of this paper chooses the theme of international relations caused by the pandemic COVID - 19 with the aim to point out the vitality and primacy of the neorealist theoretical paradigm in relation to the neoliberal one. After the introduction, the paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the realistic and liberal theory of international relations and analyses international relations from a neorealist perspective. International relations were analysed from the aspect of the interna...

Zoran R. Pešić

Koliko danas znamo, svest sa svojim mnogobrojnim oblicima, sa svojom još neodgonetnutom prirodom i nepoznatim svojstvima, najsloženija je pojava poznatog univerzuma, one najsloženije strukture koju delimično poznajemo. Naime, od svih pojava za koje znamo na skali od minus beskonačnog (- ∞) do plus beskonačnog (+ ∞), u vidljivom i nevidljivom delu univerzuma, svest je ona jedina pojava koja poseduje i potencijal da autonomno saznaje i reprodukuje ovu celinu prostor-vremena. Ili da je, i...

Ljubomir Kljakić

Prikaz knjige: Dragan Simeunović, Istorija srpske političke misli - Novi vek, Pravoslavna reč, Novi Sad, 2019, str. 587...

Miroslava Gligorić

Prikaz knjige: Анатолий Сальков,Национально-территориальные конфликты в Центрально-Восточной Европе во внешней политике СССР (1938–1949 гг.), Минск: БГУ, 2019, стр. 743...

Kiril Ševčenko

Postoji ne jedan, već dva praznika naše pobede u Velikom otadžbinskom ratu. Prvi praznik – tih, privatni, porodični. Za vreme njega potomci se sećaju svojih rođaka – očeva, dedova, pradedova, koji su poginuli u bitkama ovog rata. Teško je naći porodicu u Rusiji, ali i u drugim republika bivšeg SSSR, u čijem rodoslovu nema rođaka koji se nisu vratili sa fronta, ili su poginuli u nacističkim koncentracionim logorima, ili su umrli u okupaciji, ili nisu izdržali težinu tadašnjeg ...

Rustem Vahitov

Technological advances that China has managed to make in the last two decades, make it by far the most serious challenge to global hegemony that the two Anglo-Saxon countries (first Britain and then the United States) have encountered in almost three centuries.Along with a current trade war,  the US and China have been entangled in rising competition to command different fields of next-generation technology, above all 5G networks and AI.  The competition is in effect about who will control the...

Goran V. Nikolić

The aim of this paper was to research, describe and explain the causal link between the US-China trade war and the initiation of WTO reforms. Changes in US trade policy took place under Trump's leadership. Driven by the slogan "America First", the administration introduced measures that have increasingly began to resemble a trade war against China. With reference to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 tariffs were imposed on a wide range of imp...

Sanja Jelisavac Trošić

The article discusses the relations of the great powers after the pandemic and the possible answers of Serbia. In the coming years, we can expect a wave of technological innovation and abandonment of the economy of oil, gas, coal, nuclear energy and rapid development and wide application of achievements in the fields of artificial intelligence, information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and cognitive sciences. Many current political analyzes deal with the relations between the United ...

Slavoljub Lekić

The global and globalist Agenda on prevention from COVID-19 follows the logic of new forms of behavioral conditioning in terms of changing the value system and new behaviors of people: the weakening of „traditional forms of social conditioning“ and the severance of social ties. Accepting securitization as a new way of life in which human rights are voluntarily sacrificed for security and protection from the imminent danger of a deadly infection (whose role is to defend a weak individual from...

Dr. Vladan Stanković

In regards to the Kosovo-Metohija problem, there are different views of directly interested local actors. For Albanians, there is no dilemma about the existence of the so-called Kosovo's independence, which lacks recognition of official Belgrade alone, which would, at the same time, "open the door" to UN membership. In Serbian society, there is no consensus on the Province as an indisputable part of Serbia. Serbian political nomenclature, pro-Western parties, organizations and influential indivi...

Dr. Milomir Stepić, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors

The defense organization of every modern state should be a balanced civil-military institution with a clear legally defined civilian supremacy. It must be able, within the available public resources, to provide the most optimal environment for the development of the defense system and, above all, the preparation and efficient and effective use of the military in carrying out the missions assigned to it. Given that the projected state of the defense organization is in constant development and cha...

Zoran Jeftić

The paper analyzes the relations between the European Union and the Western Balkans. Apart from that, the paper deals with the relationship between stability and democracy, and all the recent developments that influenced review of the existing enlargement rules. In early February 2020, the European Commission presented a draft proposal for a new methodology for enlargement to the Western Balkans. Such a move was expected since the Non-Paper proposed by France has already provoked conflicting con...

Ivan Milovanović

Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral has eight centuries of continuity within the Serbian Orthodox Church. Saint Sava founded the Eparchy of Zeta in 1219. Following the collapse of the Serbian Empire, the last medieval Serbian Orthodox rulers from the Crnojević dynasty, after 1346, relocated the seat of Zeta Eparchy, or Metropolitanate, to Cetinje, where, in 1484, they also built a monastery. Up until 1766 and the abolition of the Peć Patriarchate by Sultan Mustafa III, metropolitans...

Dejan Mirovic

Book review : David Engels, Zalazak: Kriza Evropske unije i pad Rimske republike – nekoliko povjesnih analogija. Zagreb: Litteris. 344 str.

Dr. Dušan Dostanić

In the Serbian criminal legislation, as well as in most foreign legislations, the starting point is that under certain conditions, the instigator who unsuccessfully induces another to commit a crime also deserves punishment. Criminalpolitically, the punishability of unsuccessful (attempted) incitement is justified by a special danger to the protected good, which creates a person in the role of instigator by starting a causal course over which he no longer has power. Punishment, however, is condi...

Ivan Đokić

In the European theory of contract law, division of legal systems into open and closed has been recently introduced, according to whether they provide special rules on unilateral revision of contract due to changed circumstances, or not. The open systems contain special rules that allow for a fair adjustment of a valid contract at the request of a party affected by the change in circumstances. The other party does not need to agree to the requested adjustment. The interests of the other party, w...

Marija Karanikić Mirić

According to the dominant view among scholars of Roman law, a public delict protecting the honour of Romans existed in the Twelve Tables. Allegedly, it was later modified by Sulla’s legal reform at the beginning of the first century BC. The aim of this paper is to challenge these views using the available sources. The results indicate a lack of sources on criminal protection of honour until the time of Augustus. Then it was limited to persons of higher standing in cases where the success of...

Andreja Katančević

The problem of euthanasia is a contact area of ethics, law and politics. In this text, which seeks to contribute to the expert public debate on the introduction of euthanasia into Serbian legislation, the term terminology - euthanasia (as a Right to Die with Dignity) is first terminologically clarified. Furthermore, the text considers the obligations of other persons arising out of this right and under what conditions the obligations of other persons arising from the said right constitute a rest...

Iva D. Golijan

We are faced with biocontrol of the whole society imposed by the invisible centers of power which, through networked activities through various but connected organizations, want to unite their activities globally under the pretext that the world is not prepared for the coming threats, one of which is an epidemic. "Life as a political object" is turned towards the controls that are exercised over it, in the name of the 'right' to life, body, health, security. Contemporary politics is bio polit...

Dr. Vesna Stanković Pejnović

In line with Epstein’s model of the school-parent partnership, this paper discusses international experience and situation in educational system in Serbia in terms of parental participation in the prevention and intervention of school violence and bullying. International experience, presented by American and Western European research and studies, examined parental participation not only as an element of special prevention and intervention programs, but also as an element of regular partners...

Dr. Adrijana Grmuša

Corporatism is a complex political phenomenon, long-lasting, highly diverse, and with many shapes and facets. This complexity causes various difficulties in its understanding and defining, as well as various approaches to it. This article compares six distinguished definitions of corporatism, each characterising a different perspective: societal-organisational, institutional, procedural, institutional-procedural, economic, and doctrinal. It then points to four difficulties for understanding and ...

Novak Gajić

There is a noticeable increase in Poland’s engagement with the Western Balkans. This research aims to explore the compatibility of the EU priorities in the region and Poland’s national interests. Embedded in the concept of raison d’etat and the realist theoretical framework, this paper traces the evolution of the EU and Poland’s approaches towards the region in the pursuit of the level of symbiosis between the two players. The research explores the EU strategic approach towards ...

Spasimir Domaradzki

The undertaken relational analysis of the core concepts underpinning the practical roadmap for the process of systemic establishment of regional sustainable development policy and coordinated use of structural instruments starts from the assumption that the negotiated accession process of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union encourages sustainable transformation of the entire of Serbia and all its parts. The systemic overhaul of the existing national regional development policy is requir...

Jadranka Joksimovic

The paper analyzes the possibility of closer integration given to the countries of the Western Balkan by a new EU enlargement methodology. On February 5, 2020 the European Commission issued Communication proposing to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions a new methodology for EU enlargement entitled “Enhancing the accession process – A credible EU perspective for the Western Balkans”. This new methodology should be...

Jelena Ceranic Perisic

The article explains the cartel party model and examines newer tendencies of cartelization of politics. The cartel party model stands for collusion between parties and their intertwining with the state. It spurred considerable amount of scholarly literature in recent years. However, the analyses of Serbia's party politics through the prism of the model has been missing so far. Therefore, the article tackles a problem whether there are elements of cartelization in Serbia's party politics, by cons...

Dr. Nikola Mladenović

Practically all parties in Serbia opt for a pro-birthrate policy, whereas some of them do it although there is a positive birthrate in the area of their acting (e.g. Muslim parties in the region of Raška). This is also understandable since Serbia is faced with a prominent crisis of population growth that has been negative for as many as 29 consecutive years. The paper gives an overview and analyzes the program positions of the most influential parties in Serbia regarding family, parenthood, ...

Uroš V. Šuvaković

In this paper the author analyses the justifications and the limits of minority non-territorial autonomy arrangements in liberal democracy. Non-territorial autonomy can be defined as a self-rule of a group of persons through a sub-state entity with a non-territorial character, in matters considered vital for the maintenance and reproduction of their culturally distinctive features which could be their language, culture, religions or customs. The concept of non-territorial autonomy is essentially...

Vladimir Djurić

In the Russian Federation, a set of constitutional amendments was adopted in a referendum in July this year. Having in mind the fact that Russia is one of the most important countries in the world, there is a scientific and social need to study the adopted amendments. Therefore, the subject of the research were adopted amendments. The normative and to a lesser extent the comparative law method were used were used in order to answer two questions. First, what is the change in the constitutional s...

Miloš Stanić

The principle of difference, understood in its narrow variant, requires fraternity as a special relationship of friendship and solidarity that exists in society. According to the principle of brotherhood, the gifted in society will not require special incentives in order to be more productive, but will be empathetic towards those in the worst position, and for that reason they will equally contribute to society even without incentives. In a just society, there is a special ethos or culture of ju...

Stevan Salatić

The article presents a comparative analysis of dissidents’ activities in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (in Belgrade) at the end of 1970s. It refers to the time after the adoption of The Final Act of The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Helsinki. According to the archival data from the Federal Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and literature, the interest of Yugoslav diplomacy and political factors in “Charter 77”, which was initiated by the group of Czechoslovakian di...

Nenad Ž. Petrović

The purpose this study is to provide a comprehensive illustration od military activities in the Republic of Turkey, analyzing the position and the role of the army in the political system of this country. First of all the role of army leaders in founding the Republic at the beginning of the 20^th century will be presented in order to make later influences easier to understand. Then the institutional evolution of Turkish army as well its fall after 2002 will be shown in chronological or...

MA Dušan Čorbić

Asia is a region of intensified interstate competition for influence and strategic dominance. The aim of this paper is to examine the balance in the geopolitics of Central Asia (CA) through the regional multilateral format of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The examination begins with a description of CA geopolitics itself, taking into account all relevant factors - historical context, physical-geographical advantages, richness of energy resources and the general security situation....

Marko Vignjević

In this article the author considers ethical and religious arguments in favour of the right to live of the unborn. He indicates that Latin Fathers, under the influence of Aristotle, were principally prone to support the theory about subsequent or gradual animation of an embryo, while almost all Eastern Fathers up to this day consider that an embryo is a person since the moment of its conception. The consequence of teaching about subsequent animation of an embryo is the possibility of abortion un...

Zoran Kinđić

An idea that the SC UN Resolution 1244 was not useful, or that it was even harmful for Serbia, contributed to the conclusion of the serial of fatal agreements between the government led by SNS (Serbian Progressive Party) and Prishtina: firstly there was the Brussels Agreement (still in the use) and then came the recent Washington Agreement. According to the explanation of the negotiators of the Brussels Agreement Ivica Dacic and Aleksandar Vucic, who eventually signed this agreement, the two of ...

Dr. Momčilo Subotić

Economic activity in Kosovo and Metohija remains inadequate due to the continuity of weak institutions and the absence of the rule of law. Moreover, the large socio-economic discrepancies in the region are a huge obstacle in overcoming tensions in Serbian-Albanian economic relations. The economic underdevelopment of the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija and its separation from the wider local community is the result of numerous factors. In this paper, the influence of the language barrier...

Veljko Samardžić

This paper within its limited length encompasses only basic framework for the understanding of this historically and currently well-known region. Writing and rewriting of its history is daily on agenda not only for the scholars, but think-tanks and politicians alike. Western approaches to the Balkans are not often scholarly. As some pointed out, we usually cope rather with the perceptions than profound, complex and above all comparative analyses. The latter ones would suggest that Balkan and its...

Mile Bjelajac

The author looks at several features of the relationship between large and small nations and states at the international level. Since this plan, among other things, can be understood as political, ie geopolitical, the author points to the continuous action of differences between the actors of international life. Viewed through the prism of theoretical realism, the theory of globalization, world order and critical geopolitics, the essence of these relations is recognized in contradictions. On tha...

Miloš Knežević

Contemporary study of the possibilities of small states to resist security threats has come a long way from the understanding that it comes down to the classical policy of balancing and developing their own military potentials. This was contributed by the "expansion of the field of security", a detailed observation of security (as a state, organization and function). A positive contemporary definition of security means freedom from fear and freedom from poverty; in the objective sense, it is def...

Aleksandar Saša Gajić

Globalization did not make states unnecessary. On the contrary, in order for people to successfully take advantage of the opportunities offered by international integration, they need a state at both ends of their transactions. Weak, disordered and corrupt states are being avoided as black holes in the global economic system. The modern understanding of power (strength) of the state implies six basic factors on which its strength and authority in the international community are based. Those are:...

Milovan Subotić

The end of the 20^th and the beginning of the 21^st is characterized by numerous challenges in all fields. Limited resources and the need for energy have taken their place among the key factors in creating the international policy of all countries around the world. This influenced the birth of a new type of diplomacy – energy diplomacy. The main goal of this paper is a critical analysis of the energetic security of European countries, with a special focus on the energetic s...

Dr. Miša Stojadinović, Director of the Institute

The cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China has been developing since the end of the Cold War, but they were not in the foreign policy focus of one another. The Ukrainian Crisis in 2014 changed this situation. As a consequence of a dramatic decline in the relationship with the USA and EU, Russia turned to more intensive cooperation with China, that is particularly developing in the military and security issues and energetics. The two countries realized sev...

Pavle Nedić

In this paper, the authors analyzed the extent of impact of the Saudi Coalition on the internal political, and consequentally the national security of Yemen. The innitial goal of this research is the analysis of motives of Saudi Arabia for engaging in the civil war in Yemen, with the final goal of identifying the results of interventionist activities of the Saudi Coalition in the field, as well as the unforeseeable negative changes in the political and security situation in this country. With th...

Dr. Marija Đorić, Assistant Director for Scientific Research

This paper intends to research the causality between evolving cultural models of the West and societies of Central and Eastern Europe, which accepted and emulated these models ever since the Cold War ended in a desire to be integrated into the West as they possibly could. After the Iron Curtain was lifted, both the post-communist countries and the West were eager to accept one another, as the Western values and the liberal consensus of that period reflected basic human and civil rights and freed...

Željko Đ. Bjelajac

In this work, we will seek to show the continuity of Anglo-Saxon geopolitical doctrines and the strategy of American conquest and militarization of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in a time continuity from the beginning of the Cold War to the present. In order to understand and adequately respond to the topic and subject of the research we will devote the introductory part to the key Anglo-Saxon geopolitical doctrines that underlie American strategy, internal political organization and foreign p...

Dr. Ljubiša Despotović, President of the Scientific Council

Industrial espionage, especially in the form of intellectual property theft, generates billions of dollars profit, and thereby its importance in the modern world is increasing. The scandal regarding the company Huawei has showed the complexity of the issue. The company concerned has become a “stumbling block“ between the two superpowers, given the numerous accusations that are coming from the US side that Huawei, in general sense, engaged in industrial espionage on behalf of the Chi...

Siniša Domazet

The paper deals with the complex problem of international incidents, which has both theoretical and practical significance. The introductory part deals with the notion of an international incident, which is defined as an unpleasant case, small conflict, etc., which endangers or spoils relations in the international community, especially between states or causes other more or less pronounced harmful consequences. Then, basic similarities and differences between international incidents, disputes, ...

Boris Krivokapić

At the beginning of the 21st century, as before, security is the first and basic concern of the state, of modern interpretation of political theories and international relations. The establishment of national policies as a security policy implies thinking about creating special disciplines that will complete the necessity of the security philosophy. Starting from the previous definitions of the political system and the security system, they are understood as two separate systems primarily becaus...

Radoslav Gaćinović

The development of states from the aspect of security unequivocally indicates the constant need to build defense and preserve national, regional and global security. In that sense, the Republic of Serbia is building its national security system. The aim of the paper is to thematize the questions from the political-security theory of construction and the state of security, to which preventive answers should be given, which are very important for building a modern and stable security of the state....

Mile Rakić

This paper examines the justification of the use of armed forces against terrorism by comparing terrorism to forms of political violence which allow and justify the use of military, such are guerrilla, uprisings, and war. This paper aims to investigate the compatibility of army’s mission and nature with terrorism as a form of political violence, and concludes that they are incompatible, and that a new paradigm of terrorism should exclude the combat use of armed forces. Peacetime use of militar...

Dragan Stanar

This paper explores the relationship between level of education and possibility of involment in terrorism and tries to answer the question if there is a direct corelation between these two variables. Despite the public opinion that terrorists are uneducated, numerous empirical research show exactly the opposite – that they are on average educated members of middle class. In this paper we firstly address those research that exposed high level of education of terrorists and then we are exploring...

Kosara Stevanović

The concept of human security is an alternative approach to security, which emerged and developed in accordance with changes in reality, where the state-centric security paradigm was no longer adequate to explain new processes and relations and at the same time, human security is a useful framework for considering and possibly, measuring the degree of realization of human rights, freedoms, general safety and quality of life, which actually determine the security of people. One of the important a...

Slađana Ćurčić

The subject of this article is the model of free legal aid in Serbia, which has been applied after the adoption of the Law from 2018. In the narrative part of this research, the main  focus  is on the analysis of the most important solutions in positive legal regulations. Comparing to other legal systems, in Serbia there is a special regime of free legal aid set up. The legislator distinguishes between free legal aid and free legal support, with a significant role of local government units. Th...

Dr. Mijodrag Radojević

The subject of this paper is a review of communication tools in the public administration of the Republic of Serbia, so we can take a closer look at the communication strategy of public institutions of the Republic of Serbia in contact with citizens of the city of Belgrade. Thus, in the example of public administration, more precisely the city administration of the city of Belgrade and one of the secretariats within the administration, we can see ways of communicating the practice of the city ad...

Ljupka Katana

As a country that has EU membership as its main foreign policy goal, the Republic of Serbia has been conducting negotiations for membership in the Union since 2014. This process involves negotiations that are divided into 35 chapters. The chapter that was first temporarily closed on the same day it was opened is Chapter 26, which deals with education and culture. The subject of this paper will be European education with a focus on the phases of development, goals, standards and instruments of Eu...

МА Andrijana Lazarevic

In the process of negotiations for accession to the European Union, Serbia faces numerous challenges and obstacles. According to numerous estimates, the negotiations on the policies covered by Chapter 27 will be among the most demanding in the entire negotiation process. The aim of this paper is to examine whether such assessments are justified and what specifically leads to such conclusions. For these purposes, the paper initially starts from the presentation of the basic goals and principles o...

MA Andrea Matijević

The paper analyzes one institution that has experienced expansion around the world in recent decades - the ombudsman. Taking into account that during this period a relationship between local authorities and the central state authority changed significantly, as well as that local authorities gained increasing competencies in relation to the citizens, this paper put special  emphasis on local (i.e. municipal) protectors of citizens. The aim of this paper is to point out the capacity of the protec...

Aleksandar Klaric

This article on the topic "Quality of protection of families with children in the Tuzla Canton" is aimed to examine the quality of family policy and protection of families with children in Tuzla Canton. The research question of this paper was to examine: Do measures of family policy and protection of families with children in the Tuzla Canton influence the improvement of the quality of life of families with children and are they in function of meeting their needs? Quantitative and qualitative me...

Samila Ramic

The modern concept of social protection is directed towards empowerment of children and youth in foster care. As developmental trajectories of these children and young people are frequently marked with experiences of change, loss and trauma, it is of utmost importance to foster their capacity to cope with and overcome life's difficulties. The development of resilience in this vulnerable group can be supported by providing suitable conditions in different aspects of their foster care functioning....

Jelena Tanasijević

Fast socio-economic development brings about numerous changes in everyday functioning in the life of an individual, also reflecting on the concept of inter-generation solidarity. Longer life expectancy and constant prolongation of minimum retirement agesignificantly diminish the modern family's ability to provide long-term support for their oldest members, especially with the lack of support by the wider community. The results of recent research show that a family member giving long-term support...

Bojana Dimitrijevic

The subject of this paper is the contribution of the service of daycare to the inclusion of children and youth with developmental disabilities in Novi Pazar. First part of this article displays the status of children and youth with developmental disabilities, the international documents which are intended to deal with those issues, national normative frame and the establishment of systems for providing the social protection services. The results of this research displays the organization of the ...

Dragana Plavsic

The aim of the paper is to present the results of the evaluation of the volunteer satisfaction to the psychodrama groups " Helping the Helpers " (HH) in the program "Big brother, big sister" (BBBS). The BBBS program is a program of external support for children in which a volunteer, through a permanent relationship and interaction, provides the child with psychosocial support for a period of 20 months. HH represent a group of psychosocial support activities for volunteers in the SBSS program. Ps...

Gordana Marcetic Radunovic

BOOK REVIEW: NIKOLA JEJTS, GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY, FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, 2017...

Danijela Pavlović

Book review: David G. Anderson, Dmitry V. Arzyutov and Sergei Alymov (ed.), 2019, Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, pp. 450 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/823...

Dr. Jelena Miljković Matić

Book review: (Lewis H. Morgan, Ancient Society, Chicago: Kerr, 593 p....

Dr. Ivan Matić

During the global health crisis caused by “Covid-19” virus pandemic, along with struggling to preserve human lifes and health, a scientific community is mobilizing against so-called infodemia. This media “epidemic” is also spreading globally, as cacophony of endless untruths, misinformation, false news and media manipulations, jeopardizing a public's competence to understand such an important discourse that frames life and death issues. Using an analytical and critical scientific approac...

Irina R. Milutinović

Inter-integration associations play a significant role in the system of the existing world order. The article explores the current state and defines the main directions of development of legal systems of inter-state entities of the post-Soviet space....

G.A. Vasilevich

The article is devoted to the unification of the law in the field of protection of foreign trade interests. The author conducted a comparative and legal analysis of the methods and tools of customs-tariff and non-tariff regulation, applied in the legislation of the member states of the EAEU and the EAEU as a whole. The thesis is put forward about the insufficient level of unification of legislation in the designated area. The formation of a universal conceptual apparatus and the tools used in th...

A.V. Denisevich

The fact that the European Union’s (EU) enlargement policy is in crisis is nothing new. For years now, it has been suffering from the ‘business as usual’ approach and disguising the enlargement fatigue and EU member states’ disagreement over widening and deepening the integration. In this article we applied Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier’s external incentives model to the Europeaniyation of Western Balkans, which confirms that the decline of credibility is the most importan...

Maja Kovačević

The main focus of this paper is to show that the previously defined positions of EU Member states on the consequences of potential EU enlargement to the Western Balkans and changes in the methodology of enlargement policy, proposed in November 2019 and adopted in February 2020, are causally related. In addition, the paper tries to show the character of this causal connection. For this purpose, the paper initially starts from the definition of theoretical concepts - the concept of enlargement pol...

MA Andrea Matijević

This paper analyses contemporary trends in the development of decision - making procedures that are in line with the evolutionary nature of international organizations. Consensus as a decision-making procedure was created in order to correct the shortcomings of unanimous and majority voting, which were the dominant procedures in the first two periods of development of international organizations. The paper analyzes the widespread use of consensus in international organizations, its advantages an...

Nemanja Puric

Until recently, the controversial concept of the archetypes of the collectively unconscious has become relevant again within the framework of political psychology. According to Agnes Horvath and Darren Kelsey, archetypal situations dominate the world political scene, and thus, archetypal figures should be identified. Drawing on the concept of affective mythologies proposed by Darren Kelsey in his book Media and Affective Mythologies: Discourse, Archetypes and Ideology in Contemporar...

Dr. Sanja Lazarević Radak