The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy categorically rejects and denies the falsehoods that were first published on the internet portal "Alo" on Saturday, October 21st, 2023, and then picked up by other pro-government media. This is a dirty campaign with the aim of discrediting the organisation and its executives, and the BCSP will seek protection in court proceedings.

The aim of this study is to analyse the political debate surrounding the Jadar Project. It will present the development of the debate, the key actors, and the dominant discourses that formulated it.

Turkey’s more assertive posture towards the Balkans is neglected compared to the commentariat that deals with Russia and China. To fill this policy gap, the research team of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) has conducted research based on the analysis of secondary source material and, even more importantly, on fieldwork interviews that involved 16 sources, academics and think tank researchers based in Istanbul and Ankara.

Serbia and the Western Balkans are yet again at a crossroads. The time has come either to achieve long-term peace and prosperity through the EU integration process or to once again plunge into a deadly spiral of autocracy and conflict. The normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina and the resolution of all outstanding disputes in the region will not be possible without state de-capture and full renewal of democracy in Serbia. 

We proudly announce that during the first day of the Belgrade Security Conference BSC 2023, the inaugural "Lighthouse" award ceremony took place at the Hotel Hyatt. 

The Belgrade Security Conference BSC 2023 is officially open!

September School under the title "Russia's Soft Power in Serbia and the Balkans: Busting Myths and Confronting Facts", organised by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy in partnership with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), was held at the hotel Fruške Terme from 20-24 September.

The network of associations of citizens, journalists, and media standing up against violence strongly condemns the decision of the authorities in Serbia to prevent Jovana Marović, an activist and former deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro and Minister of European Affairs, from entering Serbia at the Nikola Tesla airport on August 23, 2023.

The Network of Citizens, Journalists, and Media Organizations, fervently urge you to direct your attention to a deeply disconcerting incident in Serbia. Ms. Sofija Todorovic, Programme Director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), was deliberately targeted in an alarming attempt to intimidate and undermine the fundamental rights of civil society activists. This act not only dehumanizes our defenders of liberty but ominously heralds potential harassment and threats they may face in the future.