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Politika nacionalne bezbednosti
ISSN 2334-959X · Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, Serbia · 75 articles in the index
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Secondary national security: A case study of Greenland
This paper examines the relationship between sovereignty and national security by questioning the assumption that they depend on one another. This paper aims to conceptualize secondary national security within the broader theoretical framework of Security Studies associated with the Copenhagen…
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Protection of family identity in the context of contemporary security challenges
The protection of family identity is a complex legal issue that encompasses a set of values, relationships and characteristics through which the continuity of family life, the personal and collective identity of its members, as well as their legal and social security are achieved. In the context of…
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The role of personal prestige in Donald Trump's foreign policy decision-making: The case of Venezuela
The paper analyses the US intervention in Venezuela in 2026 from the perspective of prestige policy, seeking to show that security, economic, and value-based explanations are insufficient to understand the decision of the Donald Trump administration. In this context, the arguments about the fight…
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Operational application of directed energy weapons: Case of Venezuela
This paper analyzes the development and potential operational use of Directed Energy Weapons - DEW, with particular emphasis on the Havana Syndrome and the U.S. operation Absolute Resolve conducted in Venezuela in 2026. The central hypothesis of the study is that the technical and technological…
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Revolutionizing U.S. Foreign policy: The case of Trump's approach toward Venezuela
A limited U.S. military operation against Venezuela in January 2026, which resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, sparked considerable debate among observers regarding the factors that led the second administration of Donald Trump to cross the threshold into direct military…
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Contemporary legal modernization in Italy: Between civil justice reform, state efficiency, fundamental rights and security
The contemporary reforms of Italian legislation represent one of the most comprehensive attempts to adapt the legal system to the complex social, technological, and institutional challenges of the modern era. Instead of partial normative interventions, these reforms reflect the development of an…
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Security aspects of demographic transition: The case of AP Kosovo and Metohija
The paper analyzes the process of demographic transition in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, with a special focus on the security and military aspects of the attempt to albanization this part of the Republic of Serbia, which has been actively implemented since the end of the NATO…
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Indirect IMPLICATIONS of sharenting ON the national security of the Republic of Serbia
The global phenomenon of “sharenting”, defined as the extensive online sharing of minors’ personal data by parents, represents a complex and indirect threat to national security. Although the motives behind this practice are predominantly uncritical, it results in the construction of permanent…
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The action of parasecurity structures and foreign factors in Kosovo and Metohija in the hybrid war against the Republic of Serbia
This paper examines a broader context of the expressed interests of certain foreign factors in contemporary security circumstances, characterised by the presence of hybrid threats, aiming to observe the position and relevance of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (AP of Kosovo and…
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National defence strategy and resilience of the North Macedonia security sector in the era of modern security challenges
North Macedonia has become a permanent member of NATO in 2020, in the midst of the global and all-pervading Covid-19 pandemic that did not recognize the boundaries between rich and poor, between large, medium and small countries, between strong and weak health systems. Almost all countries were…
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Excessive secrecy in democracies: Bureaucratic reflex or security illusion?
Systematic excessive classification of information within the security apparatuses of the United States, the European Union, and key NATO allies constitutes a structural anomaly within liberal democracies. Through comparative analysis, the article identifies that the principal driver of this…
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Russian-American relations in Donald Trump's second term: Between desires and reality
Donald Trump’s initiative to restore Russian-American relations by resolving the Ukrainian crisis with partial respect for Russia’s demands seemed surprising and was described as a kind of U-turn in American foreign policy. However, the question is not only what effect such U-turns in bilateral…
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The Israel-Iran cyber war: The digital dimension of Middle Eastern conflicts in a post-unipolar world
The conflict between Israel and Iran represents one of the most enduring confrontations in the Middle East. Over the past decade, its dynamics have increasingly been characterised by multidimensionality, reflected in the spillover of the conflict beyond traditional military-political frameworks…
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Multidimensional security in Muay Thai practice
This article examines Muay Thai as a cultural practice that reflects the multidimensional character of human security. Once tied primarily to warfare, Muay Thai now engages multiple domains of security: physical, economic, health, and ontological. Through ethnographic accounts and historical…
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Geopolitical consequences of Bashar al-Assad's fall in Syria
Adhering to the theoretical framework of classical geopolitcal analysis, the paper provides a geopolitical overview of the change of government in Syria at the end of the prolonged civil war, as well as the course of military operations and a description of the immediately established new situation…
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Army and military profession in contemporary society: A contribution to defining the analytical framework
The social transformations defining contemporary, postmodern, or post-Cold War society have inevitably shaped the military - its organization, functions, role, and societal position. Global shifts from a bipolar to a unipolar and now multipolar geopolitical order demand the continuous evolution of…
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Consumer ethnocentrism and lifestyles of members of the defense sector
Consumer ethnocentrism is a form of economic patriotism and awareness of the significance of buying local products to develop the domestic economy. Since consumer habits are closely linked with consumers' lifestyles, and that lifestyles, besides socio-demographic aspects, represent an important…
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The Battle of Cajamarca: The civilizational cost of military (mis)education
This paper analyses the Battle of Cajamarca as a paradigmatic example of the civilizational cost of military miseducation. Exploring the context, course, and consequences of the battle between the Spanish conquistadors led by Pizarro and the Inca, commanded by the divine ruler Atahualpa, the author…
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Qualitative insight into factors of enrollment in military higher education institutions in the Republic of Serbia
This paper explores the factors that influenced the decisions of cadets at the Military Academy (MA) and the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical Military Academy (MF MMA) to enroll in military higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Republic of Serbia. The research aimed to identify, through…