Milovan Subotić (ed.), Thematic Collection “Challenges of Regional Security”, Institute for Strategic Research, Belgrade, 2025.

The contemporary approach to global, regional, and national security requires an unprecedented level of multidisciplinarity in studying processes and phenomena relevant to an increasingly insecure and unstable world. Therefore, the complexity, mutual interconnection, and constant dynamic change in the content, forms, actors, as well as the locations where these processes unfold, represent the framework within which the most significant security challenges facing the Western Balkan countries must be identified. Considering that complex processes relevant to the security of countries in the region are in a significant correlative relationship with the member states of the European Union, the locational framing of the research problem in this publication has been observed “top-down,” i.e., by analyzing the security challenges faced by the Union and the way they affect the region, which remains the main geographical focus of the research.
This thematic collection, which represents one of the outcomes of the research team of the Institute for Strategic Research within the project “Security Challenges of the Western Balkan Countries in the European Security Paradigm”, brings together prominent authors from several domestic research institutions, such as the Faculty of Security Studies, the Institute of International Politics and Economics, the Institute for European Studies, and the Faculty of Law, Security, and Management, Union University – Nikola Tesla. It includes a total of thirteen papers that address a wide range of security challenges in the region, as well as in the broader European context.