The half-day conference titled “Walking the (Barb)wire: Balkans between the War and Peace,” organised by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, was the opportunity to present and discuss the findings of the latest edition of the Balkan Defence Monitor, as well as of the public opinion poll on regional relations.

Half of the population in Serbia see Russia as the main foreign policy partner and 2/3 have positive attitudes towards Russia, while the main source of the radical pro-Russian narrative is pro-government media with their narratives that are transported to the public. That was pointed out during the panel discussion BCSP organized on December 14.

We present you the analysis of the results of the public opinion survey on Serbian foreign policy and relations with great powers.

Public opinion in Serbia and Russian soft power are some of the topics of the BCSP analysis written by BCSP Senior Researcher Vuk Vuksanović, President of the International Advisory Committee Srđan Cvijić and BCSP Visiting Fellow Maksim Samorukov.

What do Serbian citizens think about the COVID-19 pandemic? What are their opinions about vaccination? Do they trust the institutions that were managing the pandemic? We present you an analysis of citizens' attitudes on these topics.

What do the citizens of Serbia think about the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina? What do they see as the best outcome of the dialogue? How do they assess the relations between Albania and Serbia? We present you an analysis of citizens' attitudes on these topics.

Are the citizens of Serbia afraid of the outbreak of armed conflict in the region? What do they think about the Open Balkans initiative? What is their view on the solidarity in the region, and how do they see Serbia's relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. We present you an analysis of citizens' attitudes on these topics.

What do the citizens think about the state of democracy in Serbia, how much do they trust the institutions and are they ready to join an activist initiative? We present you an analysis of citizens' attitudes on these topics.

This publication is one of the outputs of the regional project “Western Balkans Security Barometer” (WBSB), implemented by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS).