{"id":35399,"date":"2025-11-03T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/?post_type=publikacija&#038;p=35399"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:34:19","slug":"serbian-malignant-influence-in-the-western-balkans","status":"publish","type":"publikacija","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/publication\/serbian-malignant-influence-in-the-western-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Malignant Influence in the Western Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This report is part of the project \u201cBuilding the Serbian World: Serbia\u2019s Impact on Security and Stability in the Western Balkans. Project is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is implemented in cooperation with:<\/p>\n<p>Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP)<\/p>\n<p>NGO Aktiv (Kosovo)<\/p>\n<p>Digital Forensic Center (DFC, Montenegro)<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy Initiative BH (FPI BH)<\/p>\n<p>Res Publica Foundation (Poland)<\/p>\n<p>BalkanViews (Slovakia)<\/p>\n<p>The views and opinions expressed in this report are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official positions or views of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), its donors, or any other institutions or organizations involved in the implementation of the project. Neither BCSP, its donors, nor its partner organizations shall be held responsible for the content, accuracy, or interpretation of the information contained in this report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload  wp-image-35376 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27377%27%20height%3D%27192%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20377%20192%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27377%27%20height%3D%27192%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-200x102.png 200w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-400x203.png 400w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-600x305.png 600w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-800x406.png 800w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo-1200x610.png 1200w, https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/logo.png 1240w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report examines the concept of the Serbian World as a framework for Serbian influence in the Western Balkans, promoted by political elites indirectly and more directly by affiliated actors in Serbia and region. While not an official state policy, the idea functions as a powerful narrative tool, blending nationalism, historical revisionism, and strategic influence to sustain Serbia\u2019s regional leverage and consolidate domestic political control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11441,11442,11440,9416],"vrsta":[11278],"pdfpub":[],"coauthors":[164],"class_list":["post-35399","publikacija","type-publikacija","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-serbia-and-region","tag-serbian-malignant-influence","tag-serbian-world","tag-western-balkans","vrsta-research-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija\/35399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikacija"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija\/35399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35406,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija\/35399\/revisions\/35406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"vrsta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrsta?post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"pdfpub","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pdfpub?post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}