The Draft National Security Strategy of Serbia points to the erosion of democratic civilian control over the security system and further state capture, and the state-centric approach to security threats ignores the needs of citizens, it was highlighted at the event organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) as a contribution to the public debate on the Draft National Security Strategy and Draft Defense Strategy on May ...

Trust in the police has been growing in parallel with the perception of corruption and the impression that the work of the police is politicised. This is the main conclusion of the fourth annual public opinion survey "The Citizens’ Opinion of the Police Force" conducted by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy as a member of the regional POINTPULSE network.

Serbia is getting a new National Security Strategy after almost a decade. It is the supreme strategic document that identifies highest national interests and defines how to pursue and protect them in an altered security environment.

Prof. dr Bogoljub Milosavljević in the new BCSP publication analyzes how the security system of the Republic of Serbia is regulated in the Constitution of 2006 and gives recommendations for its improvement, taking in account leassons learned from serbian constitutional tradition, as well as exemplary comparative solutions in this area.

{image1}The solution for Kosovo should preserve regional security and enable an unobstructedprocess of Serbia's accession to the European Union, it was pointed out by the Working Group on Chapter 35 of the National Convention on the EU, which BCSP is a member of, at the debate which was part of the internal dialogue. The event was organized on March 31, 2018, in Belgrade. The event was attended by the ...

{image1} Constitutional regulation of the security system should be a part of the ongoing constitutional reforms in order to constrain political power and establish a strong democratic civilian control. Apart from the actual text of the Constitution, of great importance are also the process of its adoption, as well as its subsequent implementation, it was concluded at the event organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on ...

1. What about the women? Understanding and Addressing the Problem of ISIS Female Recruitment in the Western Balkans Author: Eric Mietz This policy paper aims to bring attention to an oft-neglected security problem in the Western Balkans: women being recruited by—and migrating to—the Islamic State. The first part of the paper looks at the numbers of women leaving from the Western Balkans to Islamic State-held territory, the profiles of women ...

{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 ...

BCSP researcher Katarina Djokic analyzes the possible benefits for Serbia from international cooperation in the field of defense economy on the case of demilitarization of surplus weapons and improvement of the capacities of the Technical Repair Institute Kragujevac.