KNOWLEDGE BASE
Political and Institutional Crisis in Serbia: Possible Scenarios (November 2025 – June 2026)
Date: 07.11.2025. |
The BCSP policy brief “Political and Institutional Crisis in Serbia: Possible Scenarios (November 2025 – June 2026)” analyses the country’s deepest political and institutional turmoil in over a decade, rooted in systemic corruption, impunity and the erosion of public trust following the Novi Sad tragedy.
Serbian Malignant Influence in the Western Balkans
Date: 03.11.2025. | Tags: Serbia and region, Serbian Malignant Influence, Serbian World, western balkans
This report examines the concept of the Serbian World as a framework for Serbian influence in the Western Balkans, promoted by political elites indirectly and more directly by affiliated actors in Serbia and region. While not an official state policy, the idea functions as a powerful narrative tool, blending nationalism, historical revisionism, and strategic influence to sustain Serbia’s regional leverage and consolidate domestic political control.
Extremism and Telegram
Date: 14.05.2025. | Tags: extremism, Telegram
The contemporary information environment has redefined the ecosystem of extremist groups, shifting them significantly towards online engagement.
Anti-establishment extremism
Date: | Tags: Anti-establishment extremism, extremist movements
Anti-establishment extremism (AEE) is increasingly attracting the attention of both the public and experts in terrorism and extremism.
Eco-extremism
Date: | Tags: Eco-extremism, environmental initiatives, radicalism
Ecological degradation and climate change in recent decades have raised citizens’ concerns and led to the formation of many environmental protection movements. However, alongside legitimate activism, radical and extremist groups have also emerged, employing violent methods to draw attention to their aims.
Non-Malign Influence: What Does the Russian Community in Serbia Think and Do?
Date: 20.02.2025. | Tags: Adaptation, Political engagement, Political views, Russian immigrants, serbia
This study examines the political views of the Russian immigrant community in Serbia who relocated following the beginning of a full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022.
Anti-systemic extremism in Serbia
Date: 24.11.2024. |
Anti-systemic extremism (ASE) in Serbia has expanded amid prolonged political crises, institutional distrust, and disillusionment with the European integration. Like elsewhere in Europe, ASE thrives in periods of societal instability that expose weaknesses in democratic governance. In Serbia, authoritarian tendencies, media control, and pervasive conspiracy narratives have further fuelled skepticism …
Nationalist “Hijacking” of Student Protests – Case Study of the Telegram Channel “BUNT je stanje duha”
Date: 30.09.2024. | Tags: BUNT, ethnonationalism, extremism, protests, students, Telegram
This case study analyses the role of the Telegram channel “BUNT je stanje duha” (“REBELLION is a State of Mind”) in the discursive reshaping of student protests in Serbia.
Bilateral disputes and EU enlargement: A Consensual Divorce
Date: 17.05.2024. | Tags: Bilateral Relations, BSCP, eu, foreign policy, In Focus
Bilateral disputes between European Union member states and candidate countries are one of the key obstacles to EU enlargement. They have been plaguing the EU accession process ever since the breakup of Yugoslavia and the subsequent border dispute between EU member Slovenia and candidate country Croatia which then ensued. More recently we have the case of North Macedonia. It became a candidate country in 2005 but ever since, its accession negotiations have been bogged down by endless bilateral disputes.
BSC Trends: Reconstructing the Global (Dis)Order
Date: 21.12.2023. | Tags: Belgrade Security Conference, BSC 2023, BSC Trends
We proudly present you the ‘BSC Trends: Reconstructing the Global (Dis)Order,’ the companion publication to the Belgrade Security Conference 2023, held in Belgrade from October 11th to 13th, 2023.
