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The article deals with the development of the concept of state neutrality in international relations since the 19th century, by using different theoretical approaches and historical examples. The text also analyses the statuses of several contemporary European states which are being considered as neutral, or which are striving towards neutrality. Based on that, the author brings forward the conditions necessary for a state to be internationally recognized as that of having permanent neutrality, in the post Cold War era.

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The author points to the influence of the United Nations on the development of contemporary international law. He also deals with the impact of objectives and principles of the UN Charter as well as with the emergence of new tendencies and changes in the classic system of international law.During the second half of the 20th century international relations and processes that characterised them, this above including the Cold War and decolonisation, have contributed to the change in the nature of the international community in the early 21st century exerting their influence on the position of states.

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The goal of this article is to explore the complexity of the EU Council’s functioning from the angle of its working bodies functioning. COREPER, the EU Council’s best known coordinating body, is the iceberg of the whole network of committees and working groups and is importantforthe understanding ofthe so-called EU “commitology“ phenomena. European integration process led to the proliferation of different kind of working groups. Characteristic of Council’s working groups is development of specific functioning focused to compromise as the basis for decision making, which is confirmed by empirical research. On the other hand, these bodies, as the Council itself, reflect the standing contradiction between supranational and national aspects of EU decision making.

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The first decade of the 21st century has made us witnesses the worst economic crisis unlike any seen before since the Great Depression. Although it initially seemed a simple problem of liquidity that culminated at the time, over the years has been discovered the real reasons of the crisis that has hit the world economy and they are increasingly refer to serious deficiencies and unsustainability of the existing financial system as a whole. Economic downturn resulted in lower than expected fiscal revenues, while the other side, expenses increased as a result of a large fiscal intervention in orderto stabilize the financial and banking sector and boost aggregate demand. The latest budget projections indicate the growing fiscal imbalances on a global scale as well as unsustainable imbalances in the global economy in general. Creating a credible strategy for getting out of the crisis, policymakers are faced with an extraordinary challenges. European Union member countries are now implementing an economic recovery plan that represents the most ambitious effort ever to align their economic policies. Although the crisis has put a serious burden on the economies and the budgets of the Member States, the European Union, implementing number of common measures, has managed to avoid the collapse of the financial system.

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This work aims, sixty three years afterthe Hague Congress which was the foundation for Europe as we know it today, to explain how the ideas of European unity were channeled, and to explain Yugoslav role in it. Yugoslav representatives, the émigrés, took a very active participation and tried to focus the other delegates’ attention towards the difficult position of the peoples’ behind the Iron curtain. Article also deals with the workings of the Hague Convention itself, Ideas that were presented, and with the results that stemmed from its workings, especially the Council of Europe.

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Being marked either by dominating superpower or by forced balance of dichotomous block division, periods of modern history are for sure the result of various and very complex international political and economic relations. Replacing of these periods had been defining last six decades and has been stipulating specific complexity in actual states’ interaction. According to the authors, changes of the global relations’ flows have affected on rhythm of the organized criminal activities’ trends having in mind possible causality of the ratio between essentially strategic nature of politically economic issues and tactically operational core of illegal matters, worldwide. As examples of illicit actions regarding their intensity, numerous forms, institutional adaptability and high degree of caused social danger, in the article are going to be analyzed terrorism, illicit drug trafficking, money laundering, trafficking in human organs and illegal migration, as well as governmental and nongovernmental responses presented through projects of international organizations of INTERPOL and World Justice.

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The paper analyses the ethno-demographic development of members of national minorities in Serbia with special reference to the last period between the two censuses (1991-2002), bearing in mind the turbulent political and economic changes that occurred at that time. It is pointed to the negative trends in population growth, basic demographic structures as well as to the great significance of the ethnocentric migrations that have changed the ethnic picture of Serbia and undoubtedly marked the 1990s. The specific disposition and ethnic homogenisation of national minorities give special weight and significance to the minority issue. Taking into account the fact that Serbia is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural state regulation of the position and protection of minority rights as well as good inter-ethnic relations are indispensable for achieving stability and democratic development of Serbia and the Balkan region.

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The paper shows that for a successful achievement of the project of European integration of Serbia another important aspect of this process is very significant and that is Europeanization of Serbia. Thus, in fact, we make distinction between European integration (the neo-institutional approach) and Europeanization as a deeper social and political integration of the society (the normative approach). In this narrower interpretation of the Europeanization process, which implies the acceptance of “European political values“ and deliberative democracy we see the important role of the civil society. There is no integrated political community (based on civil trust, civil virtues and values) without its active role. A weak civil society and a low level of social capital (trust, associations and organizations) are a significant obstacle to faster Europeanization of Serbia.

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The protests in egypt and Tunisia resulted in a military coup or a relatively peaceful handover of power, respectively, after decades of presidential authoritarianism. Their authorities resigned without any foreign military intervention and had been fomented by rising food prices. The military intervention in Libya, actions, diplomacy and stances of major power actors brought out the weakness of international law, the crisis of UN institutions, and in particular, the eU foreign policy. The current Libyan crisis and actions of several Western powers further erode the sovereignty, thus announcing the transformation of the current world order. The author questions and analyses the behaviour of the eU in particular, pointing and asking the reasons for the military intervention.

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When the concept of societal security focused on social community and identity as its main value was constructed, a deeper political and security analysis of social phenomena and processes was possible to make. In the paper, the authors use the concept of societal security to analyse the actual process of the Republic of Turkey’s accession to the european Union with special emphasis on the attitudes and statements of the eU and political representatives of its member states who securitize, by rethoric, Turkey’s accession in order to protect the european identity.

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The paper investigates recondite and some explored transformational diplomacy concept that was presented and initiated by the United States of America. Emergence of this concept is fairly associated to international legal and geopolitical changes, and by which USA endeavors to affect modern international system transformation on the basis of cooperation. There has been usual methodology of legal and social science used, on the strength of which results and conclusions stand upon, and have regard to conditions for emergence, essence and elements of transformational diplomacy that are exhaustively analyzed. Further on, transformational is juxtaposed to traditional diplomacy. Finally, discouragements in transformational diplomacy employing and eventual future enforcement possibilities have been researched.

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The author deals with diplomatic protection in international law and its development through history of the international community. in this sense, he studies the practice of States regarding the application of diplomatic protection and the steps being taken by the United nations international law Commission on the codification of this area. The author presents some basic conditions for launching diplomatic protection briefly analyzing their contents – the exhaustion of internal remedies and determination of citizenship. in the end, the article presents some basic guidelines for the development of diplomatic protection and its relationship with other branches of law which have an international element.

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in order to achieve macroeconomic stability, economic policy of a state should be focused on the coordinated and efficient use of its instruments. Monetary policy is one of the basic instruments of economic policy, whose objectives are also the targets of monetary policy. Therefore, each country seeks to retain sovereignty in the conduct of monetary policy and the exclusive right of issuing money and managing the flow of its supply. nevertheless, from various political and economic reasons states accept the loss of monetary sovereignty and decide to join together and form some form of monetary union. in the past, the monetary arrangements differed in terms of currency, functions and organization of the central bank and the degree of political integration. although they applied different models of monetary integration, monetary unions most often resulted from the establishment of political unions and compromises. Unlike them, the economic and Monetary Union, which was formed in 1999 together with the single european central bank and single currency is a sort of experiment because it was formed without previously establishing a political union. The analysis of development and prospects of monetary integration in the world helps our country create a strategy of integration to europe. The uniqueness of the european monetary integration and the complex political and economic structure of Serbia indicate that it will not be an easy process of integration.