Geopolitics

Tag: Geopolitics

22.August 2026 Uroš Mitrović

The creation of a new Europe: Sovereign states, but functionally dependent

How are invisible networks of influence and dependence fundamentally changing the Old Continent? Why will Europe, in its search for new bases, have to count on the Balkan region? And where is Serbia in all this?

Report on the state of peace in the world

09.June 2026 Marcel Firstenau / DW

Lords of War: The Politics of Violence as the New Normality

Is international law a thing of the past? What does the 2026 Peace Report say about it?

Comment

19.February 2026. Nemanja Rujevic

Geopolitics and matchmaking: Who needs second-class membership in the EU?

Aleksandar Vučić offers that Serbia joins the EU without the right of veto. Such a trade - the geopolitical interest of the EU for the interest of the regime to rule forever - would be disastrous for the citizens of Serbia

Geopolitics

23.January 2026 N. Rujević / A. Ivanji

Furious Trump: Europe has a bazooka, but that may be all

The European Union is in a puzzle of how to react to Trump's threats, while at the same time being heavily dependent on the US. And the next escapade of the occupants of the White House is surely already lurking around the corner

From the new issue

08.January 2026 AC / F. Š. / KS

Miloš Starović: The world at a turning point

From Moscow to Belgrade, via London, Paris, Luxembourg and Nice, Miloš Starović testifies and talks about sanctions, geopolitical upheavals and "new kids" from Russia

Energy Industry

15.November 2025 Uroš Mitrović

Bulgaria placed Lukoil under state management

Although Bulgaria did not formally nationalize Lukoil, it established state control over operations through a special administrator. Parliament voted this decision after stormy discussions and it cannot be challenged in court

Microsoft

30.November 2024 B. B.

Digital attacks: States increasingly aggressive in cyberspace

Compared to the previous period, there were 2,75 times more ransomware attacks, which is a type of malicious software that restricts access to a computer system or data and demands a ransom from the victim

Geopolitics

27.November 2024 Bosko Jaksic

Battle for Eurasia

Xi's China and Trump's America have the same slogan: Make China Great Again, respectively Make America Great Again. Washington, like Beijing, wants control over Eurasia

BRICS summit in Kazan

30.October 2024 Dusan Pavlovic

Forum as a challenge to the West

At the beginning of September, Russian President Putin invited Aleksandar Vučić for Serbia to join BRICS. The summit was held from October 22 to 24. Vučić did not leave, but sent Vulin instead. What happened at the summit? What is BRICS anyway? How important is this group of countries for international geoeconomics and geopolitics? What benefits would Serbia have if it joined BRICS? Although it started as an economic platform, over time, BRICS turned into a geopolitical platform for whose members the freedom to choose the currency to trade on the international market became a matter of economic and national security.

Proposal for translation

18.September 2024 Dusan Pavlovic

Striving for dominance

With the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the increasingly pronounced threat of China to intervene in Taiwan, geopolitics and foreign policy, as well as the roles of states in international relations, have once again come into focus on the world public and scientific scene. A new book by John Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato helps us understand whether the behavior of states in international relations is rational and what rationality consists of

Geopolitics

13.October 2023 Z.S.

"Politico": Nobody asks the European Union anything

Instead of a "geopolitical power", the European Union (EU) has turned into a pan-European small fish, thus confusing the real players at the table and mostly just embarrassing itself with the cacophony of contradictions

Personal attitude

21.September 2023 Ivan Vejvoda

Enlargement: The Imperative for the European Union

The report of the Franco-German expert group is the most important concrete contribution to emerge from recent discussions on the need for the European Union to take its destiny more decisively into its own hands.

"Vremena" file: Elections in Turkey

17.May 2023. Milan Milošević

A marathon runner from the Bosphorus and 64 million voters

Turks are deciding between the Kemalist opposition and the increasingly entrenched and intransigent Islamist ruler Erdogan in an election that has been declared the most important in the world, not so much to uphold democracy, fix the economy, manage social divisions, not even because of the differences between Kemalist and Islamist nationalism, and not because of wishful thinking. ending a two-decade reign - because of geopolitics

News

17.December 2021 Sonja Ciric

Publishers' fight against the pandemic: New Year's Book Fair

Under the name "Book at the Fair, Fair in the Heart" today at the Belgrade Fair began an event that has the characteristics of a New Year's fair where books are sold. Due to the pandemic, which caused the cancellation of two International Book Fairs, some publishers decided not to participate this time as well. For many, fair sales are a matter of survival