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Dependency theories - Jelena Pešić: Dependency theories: Capitalism from the perspective of the periphery, Faculty of philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2025

Mandić Stefan V.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

Security fragmentation of the (post)modern world (Military alliances and the balance of power)

Cvetković Vladimir N.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

This article analyses the modern and current military alliances which have been forged following the collapse of a short-lived US-led unipolar world order. In addition to an overview of the genesis of the existence of NATO, the largest and the longest-standing military alliance in the history of…

Organized violence and social development: War as a product of modernity

Marković-Savić Olivera S.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between violence, war, and modernity, and to re-examine the widely held assumption that modern social development leads to a decline in violence. The paper starts from the assumption that war is not a universal or natural phenomenon, but a…

Regional conflict and multipolarity: A theoretical analysis

Bajpai Arunoday; Sharma Preeti

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

There are many scholars (Posen, 2009, Dugin, 2021, Ashford and Cooper, 2023, De Santis, 2024, among others) who view that post-cold war unipolarity is on decline and the world order is moving towards multipolarity. There are many emerging regional powers such as China, EU, Russia, India, Brazil and…

Milunka Savić and Sofija Jovanović in the culture of memory of the French and Serbian people

Žikić Milena Ž.; Milosavljević Tanja Č.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The paper analyzes the military activities of two Serbian women warriors from the period of the First World War – Milunka Savić and Sofija Jovanović, with a particular emphasis of their reception in the French culture of memory. Milunka Savić stands out as the only women awarded by the French medal…

Socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyles and expectations from the military profession of the military academy cadets

Starčević Srđan V.; Petrović Jelena R.; Petrović Ivan B.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

Due to increasing global divisions and the presence of different forms of war, accompanied by the armament race, the military profession is once again becoming the centre of attention. The aim of this paper is to examine the values of the future officers operationalized through lifestyles and their…

(Bio)ethical dilemmas of posthumous parenthood from frozen embryos

Janković Aleksandra V.; Čović Ana V.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The topic of posthumous parenthood from frozen embryos raises numerous ethical, legal, medical, and population policy questions. As a result, the topic's complexity requires a multidisciplinary approach. This paper analyzes several key issues and various perspectives related to them, including: 1)…

Patterns of division and warfare: Neighbouring kin groups and trans-border conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean

Koktsidis Joannis Pavlos; Georgiou Andreas

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

This study examines the relationship between neighbouring kin group populations and the type and intensity of conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean regional security complex. We test the proposition that the size of transborder kin group clustering is relevant to the type and intensity of…

Global and regional inequalities and conflict as a blocking factor of sustainable development and peace in the world

Mitrović Ljubiša R.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The article discusses the focal causes and consequences of social and regional inequalities in modernity and their impact on conflicts in the world. The focus of the analysis is the impact of the ideology and practice of neoliberal globalism on the production of enormous forms of exploitation, the…

Socio-demographic predictors of students' reproductive health

Đurić Slađana M.; Milošević Jovana M.; Đurić Igor R.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

Today, it is generally accepted that investing in the preservation and improvement of young people’s health is the most profitable long-term investment for any society. The protection of reproductive health is a priority in the preservation of the nation’s health and it contributes to the creation…

Gender markings of war through the family perspective: The role of Serbian women in war

Marjanović Milica M.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 2 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

War events lead to various contradictory and opposing positions, both between the warring parties and in terms of gender – men and women. War is a gender-defined category, par excellence. Since ancient times, it has been a socially acceptable opinion that men fight and defend the homeland, while…

New contributions to the biography of Dragić Joksimović

Dostanić Dušan J.; Radojević Mijodrag D.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

Dragić Joksimović (1893–1951) was a jurist and politician, MP, and cultural activist. He is known in the professional community as the defence lawyer at the trial of General Dragoljub Mihailović. After the end of this trial, Joksimović was ostracized by the communists. After he lost his civil…

Cultural secessionism of "Sandžak" and regional security

Antonić Slobodan Č.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The first part of the paper examines two examples of cultural secessionism from the region of Raška and Polimlje (“Sandžak”) – the introduction of the “Bosnian language” and the appeal to Bosniaks to boycott Santa Claus. The second part of the paper provides an overview of the autonomist demands…

Different forms of polarity in neorealism and world-systems theory

Mandić Stefan V.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

Modern world relations are characterized by the dissolution of American unipolarity and chaotic international relations. This change in the sphere of geopolitics is no doubt related to the restructuring of the world capitalist system in which the USA is losing the hegemonic status, the central…

Social context of the family structure and the quality of adolescents' life: Comparison of two-parent and single-parent families

Jaredić Biljana N.; Radojević Tatjana S.; Radović Olivera B.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The research examinee the differences between adolescents from two-parent and single-parent families in social strategies, family interactions and temporal life satisfaction. The sample consisted 202 adolescents aged 14–19. Relevant questionnaires were applied. The results show that social…

Coalitionary proactive aggression and human nature: Interdisciplinary approach

Pejković Kristina S.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The aim of this paper is to provide an interdisciplinary examination of coalitionary proactive aggression in humans, a topic particularly addressed by anthropologist Richard Wrangham within the context of comparative primatology. This type of aggression is most closely aligned with the concepts of…

Towards a global geopolitical novum: With or without world war until a change of order?

Stepić Milomir P.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

The world is undergoing a turbulent transition between different orders, which is manifested through political, military, technological, economic, religious, propaganda, and other confrontations. The participants in the said conflicts are actors who are striving to perpetuate a privileged status…

Corporations as actors of police militarization: The USA example

Pavlović Nikola R.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

In modern globalized society, corporations have grown beyond the frameworks of traditional economic subjects and become key actors in economic, political, cultural and technological processes. Their economic power, often comparable to or even larger than the state budgets of many countries, apart…

The mythologems of geopolitical conflicts

Živković Predrag R.; Samardžić Obrad D.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 60 No. 1 · 2026 · Serbia · DOAJ

To dispel the Dionysian narrative unease or the doubt about the epistemology of the paper, we will say that the authors’ statement contained in this multi-layered descriptor represents not only a sociological and philosophical but also a psychoanalytical interpretation of regional conflicts, whose…

Eco-Marxism and the politics of natural resource extractivism: The case of South America

Tomić Miloš T.; Kesić Dušan B.

Sociološki Pregled, Vol. 59 No. 2 · 2025 · Serbia · DOAJ

The paper analyzes the theoretical positions of eco-Marxism with a special focus on the current policy of extractivism of natural resources localized in the territory of South American countries. The aim of the research is an attempt to identify and systematically describe the capitalist…