Yearbook of Security Sector Reform in Serbia 2008

The local elite and current powerbearers are slowly and gradually taking in the meaning of a broader and deeper concept of security, and intend to use it as a foundation for developing a modern concept of national security. As a result, Serbia has ceased to be a crisisgenerator in the region and a potential threat to its immediate neighbours, and countries of the Western Balkans / Southeast Europe. By taking part in international processes of security cooperation, Serbia, with its partners, enhances the achievements of and promotes sustainable national and (sub)regional security.

Summarising all SSR achievements over the last eight years in Serbia, it appears that the first phase/generation of SSR has been more or less successfully completed. However it is also apparent that the government which came into power after the Milosevic era missed an opportunity to radically – by that we mean comprehensively, systematically and with clearly defined aims – reform the security sector which it had inherited, including in particular the state apparatus of force. A partial explanation for this lies in the fact that throughout the whole period Serbia was reforming its security sector in a fairly hostile environment, with opposition both at the national and international levels.

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