Author: Author: Vassilis Petsinis , associate of the CfSP Photo: Unreguser/PA How do we explain the performances of the political parties? What should one expect? Conforming to the dominant trend throughout the former Yugoslavia, the government of North Macedonia declared a countrywide lockdown (March 18, 2020). However, on July 15,...
Author: Dragan Šutanovac President of the Council for Strategic Policy Serbia keeps on preserving its historical role of valuable stakes in the trade between the global powers and cannot, neither assess its importance in the world nor its achievable interests. This year's election campaign is, among...
Author: Vassilis Petsinis , associate of the CfSP By contrast to Serbia and the overwhelming predominance of SNS, though, the composition of Croatia’s Sabor is considerably more even and pluralist. Less strictly than Serbia, the Croatian government nevertheless proclaimed a countrywide lockdown in mid-March. However, on July 5, 2020, Croatia became the...
Author: Vassilis Petsinis , associate of the CfSP The COVID-19 crisis interacted in a highly diverse fashion with domestic politics across Europe. There was a similar range in the actual management of the emergency which often appeared to cut across ideological or political cleavages. For instance,...
Author: Dragan Šutanovac, the president of the Council for Strategic Policy It is clear that Serbs like to live in delusions, and then, to make up a utopian version of international justice and injustice. In doing so, they partly neglect the necessary balance of justice and...
Nikola Lunić, Executive Director of the Council for Strategic Policy Photo: YouTube printscreen Is there a life in Serbia after the S-400 returned to Russia? So much tabloid delight followed by pleas and appeals for the S-400 to remain. Yet, the system flew away, and the...
Author: Dragan Šutanovac, president of the Council for Strategic Policy Having such a geostrategic position, it is no wonder that Serbia occasionally finds itself in the focus of interest of the great powers. But such a frequent projection of hard and/or soft power in the Balkans...