Serbian Security: For Whom? From What?

The project focused on concepts of national security and how it is understood, both in general public and by political elites; how these understandings are reproduced in Serbian political discourse; and how and to what extent these translate into actual foreign and security polices of Serbia.

To this end, BCSP staff designed public opinion polls, as well as conducted interviews and analysis. NUPI contributed with scientific expertise and continued to host guest researchers from BCSP. NUPI also offered courses for students of security studies in Belgrade and travel grants, helping them present their findings at international conferences. This project provided assistance to the BCSP to be explicit on research deliverables, in order to counteract development aid dependency and strengthen the sustainability of the BCSP.

Project outputs

Publications produced within the project:

Public Opinion on the Security of Serbia and Dialogue with Pristina

Public Perception of Serbia’s Foreign Policy

Securitization of LGBTIQ Minority in Serbian Far-right Discourses: A Post-structuralist Perspective

Events organized in this project’s framework:

Public Perception of Serbia’s National Security and Dialogue with Pristina

Public Perception of Serbia’s Foreign Policy

Serbia, the Western Balkans and the EU: has progress stalled?

BCSP researchers at Norwegian Institute for International Affairs

I Remember When Russia Was a Great Power: a keynote by prof. dr Iver Neumann at the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF)

Doctoral seminar held by prof. dr Iver Neumann at BSF

The project was implemented with support of Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.