It is necessary to increase the mutual trust between the institutions in the region, it was one of the conclusions of the Tink-Tank Forum organized by the Institute for Democracy "Societas Civilis"  in cooperation with the Center for Eastern Studies from Warsaw and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Skopje on 13 and 14 May 2019 in Skopje. Researchers and representatives of civil society and academia from ...

{image1}What kind of training is needed by staff officers for multinational peacekeeping operations in order to be able to apply compatible operating concepts and standards, even though they come from different countries was in the focus of a study visit to the Peace Support Operations Training Centre (PSOTC) in Sarajevo organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) 16-18. December 2018. The visit was organized with the aim ...

BCSP Researcher Jelena Pejic writes about how implementing the so called "Priebe report" in every country of the Western Balkans would contribute to the fight against state capture.

With Gazprom pulling out of Ukraine’s transit network of natural gas in 2019, South – Eastern Europe, a region with high import dependency on Russian gas, must prepare itself for a post- 2019 environment that could challenge the stability of the countries’ security of supply. This is particularly the case for Serbia which imports over 80% of its natural gas from Russia.

{image1} Serbia is making good use of the available partnership mechanisms with NATO regarding military exercises and peacekeeping missions, but not for the development of the defence industry, it was concluded at the conference on military cooperation organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) on 22 February 2018 at Zira hotel. At the opening of the conference "The Future of Serbia’s Military Cooperation", BCSP Director Sonja Stojanovic ...

New BCSP publication deals with Serbia-NATO cooperation aimed at enhancing interoperability of the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) through military exercises and training. Interoperability building is of great importance for participation in multinational operations, where SAF members have to function in synergy with other countries’ armed forces.

The credible promises made by the European Union towards the countries of the Western Balkans to expect membership in the Union are good and encouraging, but it would also be necessary for the countries in the accession process to turn to the real building of a democratic society, and not just fulfilling of formal conditions, highlighted the Director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy Sonja Stojanovic Gajic at ...

Report examines how the Western Balkans has emerged once again as a potentially volatile geopolitical arena, and analyses the drivers underpinning both fragility and resilience in the countries of the region from a variety of perspectives.

Political upheavals that have taken place in the EU and the U.S. and their impact on regional relations in South East Europe were the main topics of 34th Partnership for Peace Consortium Workshop named “South East Europe: Facing Western Upheavals and Regional Backslide”, held in Reichenau in Austria. This event has gathered numerous representatives of the governments, civil sector and academia from the Western Balkans and the EU. It ...