ТЕМА - POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, ELECTIONS, AND IDENTITY DYNAMICS
TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIONAL ASYMMETRY IN A MULTI-DISTRICT PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM: MARGINAL SEAT THRESHOLDS IN MACEDONIA, 2002–2024
Macedonia elects 120 members of parliament from six domestic electoral districts of equal magnitude, each returning twenty seats through closed-list D’Hondt allocation. Equal district magnitude and a common allocation rule do not, however, imply an identical marginal threshold for the final seat. Using official district-level results for eight parl...
Жидас Даскаловски THE APPROACH OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA TOWARD THEIR COMPATRIOTS IN THE REGION AND THE DIASPORA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN POLICY AND IDENTITY STRATEGIES
This paper examines how the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia, as post-Yugoslav kin-states, formulate and implement policies toward their compatriots in the region and the diaspora. The study focuses on the concepts of the “Serbian World” and the “Croatian Corpus” as identity-based, political, and institutional frameworks for cross-bor...
RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM: THE BALKAN EXPERIENCE
This paper examines the pivotal role of religion in shaping Balkan nationalisms. It aims to identify specific aspects of this process and categorize local nationalisms accordingly. Employing phenomenological analysis, the study explores the development of national identity in the Balkans, operating under the central assumption that religion has bee...
Др Душан Чорбић ТЕМА - SECURITY CHALLENGES AND GLOBAL RISKS
CORRELATIONS BETWEEN GLOBAL PROBLEMS AND SECURITY
The fact that there are regions of prolonged conflicts, that is, states engaged in continuous armed conflicts, served as the basis for defining the problem addressed in this paper. The question arises as to what causes these conflicts, namely, whether there are common characteristics among states that are not resilient to contemporary security thre...
FROM TERRORIST EVENT TO POLITICAL EFFECT: AN ANALYTICAL MODEL OF THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORISM
The paper analyzes the relationship between a terrorist event and its political effect. It starts from the assumption that the immediate characteristics of a terrorist attack, such as the number of victims, target selection, mode of execution, and symbolic value of the attacked object, do not provide a sufficient explanation of its political conseq...
ТЕМА - GEOECONOMICS, DIPLOMACY, AND GLOBAL STRATEGIES
COMPETING GEOECONOMIC LOGICS: EU AND CHINA’S IMPACT ON THE WESTERN BALKANS’ REGIONALISM BETWEEN 2013 AND 2025
This article examines how distinct geoeconomic logics advanced by the European Union and China generate differentiated mechanisms of regional integration and fragmentation across the Western Balkans between 2013 and 2025. Rather than treating external influence as uniformly integrative or destabilizing, it asks whether competing external influences...
FROM EMERGENT TO GRAND STRATEGY: THE ABSENCE OF REFLEXIVITY IN IONUT POPESCU’S THEORETICAL SHIFT IN THE ANALYSIS OF TRUMP’S FOREIGN POLICY
This paper examines in detail the theoretical shift of Ionut Popescu in interpreting the foreign policy of Donald Trump over eight years (2017–2025). Starting from the insight that authors change their views under the influence of their own theoretical frameworks, the paper focuses on the issue of reflexivity – the author’s ability to re-examine hi...
ТЕМА - ESSAYS AND STUDIES
SERBIA’S SOCIAL POLICY THROUGH THE EPOCHS: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY PATTERNS
The paper analyzes the historical development of Serbia’s social policy through the institutional phases and identity dimensions of its formation. Starting from the assumption that social policy reflects broader social, political, and value-based transformations, the paper identifies the key epochs of its development: the premodern period, the char...
ARE THERE INTERNAL LIMITATIONS ON LIBERTY? BERLIN’S VS. GREEN’S AND TAYLOR’S UNDERSTANDING
The subject of this paper is the question of liberty, which occupies a central place within philosophical and socio-political debates. The problem of liberty has been a subject of consideration since ancient times; however, we still cannot speak of the existence of a single definition of liberty that everyone would agree upon. Different definitions...
Др Вишња Стојадиновић ТЕМА - REVIEWS
SPEECH ON THE 105TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA AND THE 15TH FIVE-YEAR PLAN
Belgrade, 30 June 2026