Publications

This book contains chapters on police oversight, police reform strategy, and national minorities' perceptions of police in Serbia.chevron_right

The goal of this issue of Western Balkans Security Observer is to open a discussion in a wider academic community about the relationship between culture and security sector reform. Some of the papers...chevron_right

This issue addresses the relationship between the political theory of Carl Schmitt and the Copenhagen School of Security Studies. The connection, that many critics of the Copenhagen School point out, ...chevron_right

This issue examines different aspects and successes of think tanks in order to strengthen their role in the western Balkans. Subsequently, it contains an article about think tanks in Serbia, Bosnia an...chevron_right

This publication includes articles on a broad range of topics related to security sector reform. It first discusses the meaning and the origins of the concept as well as the organizations to which it ...chevron_right

This report examines relations between Russia and the West, and the issuance of biometric ID cards and passports to Serbian citizens. Contributors consider the August 2008 war in Georgia, US ambitions...chevron_right

This publication first examines Serbia's democratic transition and then presents articles using identity-based explanations to analyze political divisions in Serbia and the western Balkans. The author...chevron_right

This issue of the "Western Balkans Security Observer" examines the prospects for NATO membership for several Western Balkan countries. It focuses on the domestic debates on NATO accession in Macedoni...chevron_right

The aim of this article is to present the comprehensive complexity of Russia-EU relations in the light of the so-called energy security. The starting point of the analysis will be the general frame of...chevron_right

This paper examines the Serbian Constitution's capacity to bring about democratic control of the military. It reviews Serbia's political and military institutions, as well as specific issues such as t...chevron_right

Nothing and no one can today refute the abysmal state of relations between Serbs and Albanians. This perceived animosity is well reported in the papers and in the news, is carefully examined by histor...chevron_right

This issue aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion on a new status for Kosovo and the possible consequences on the security of the two conflicting sides, the broader Balkan region and the world.chevron_right

Killing in a war in Caesar's time was rather inexpensive – just 75 cents per man. The price rose to around three thousand dollars "per enemy's head" during the Napoleonic wars. In the American Civil W...chevron_right

The consequences of the state disintegration for the army will be positive. However contradictory this claim may seem to those who firmly believe that the fate of the army is always closely related to...chevron_right

This paper examines the security implications of Turkish integration into the EU. It outlines the main contours of Turkey's strategic importance for the EU, and weighs the pros and cons of permitting ...chevron_right