Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), in partnership with New Strategy Center (NSC) from Romania, publishes the study “The wider Balkan region at the crossroads of a new regional energy matrix”. This study is the product of the collaboration between the two organizations, the authors being Vuk Vuksanović, senior researcher at BCSP and Sergiu Mitrescu, international relations expert, NSC.

Despite a solid legal framework, Serbia’s fight against cyber attacks and crime progresses slowly due to the chronic lack of qualified staff, as well as the politicized priorities of the competent institutions. This is one of the conclusions of the latest publication on the cybersecurity context in Serbia.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy is pleased to invite you to submit papers for Academic Event, which will take place during the Belgrade Security Conference (October 27-28, 2022).

The management of the crisis caused by the pandemic was marked by many omissions in respecting the legal framework, but also in the organization of the existing health capacities. Complete chaos was prevented only thanks to the efforts of doctors, while citizens, confused by contradictory messages, were left to fend for themselves. This was concluded at a round table organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy on June 6.

In this analysis, the predominant narratives of the pandemic shall be explored, as well as the ways they have impacted the state capturing process in the period from the second half of 2021 till 3 April 2022, when the general and presidential elections took place in Serbia.

How the pandemic was managed in Serbia and what are the recommendations for better coping in similar situations in the future, read in the analysis made by BCSP in cooperation with the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists of Serbia.

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.

This paper presents the factors enabling the environment for extremism and the resilience factors to violent extremism in the case of Sanjak.

In the latest BCSP study, we analyzed who are the main actors who create and spread anti-immigrant narratives, what are the main anti-immigrant narratives and messages, as well as the mechanisms and channels used by extreme right-wingers to attract attention and spread their influence to a wider audience.