Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) from Belgrade presents new comprehensive research results “Serbia and the New Horizons – Citizens on Security Challenges, NATO, USA, Kosovo and Regional Cooperation” which CEAS commissioned from the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID). Research was conducted in early November 2019 on a representative sample of 1.000 citizens of Serbia with Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) technique.

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Our hosts have put to us three questions. Answering to the first one – monitoring of external influences and managing them - requires some context. 

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The future of think tanks will depend on the course we take in our debates on how we are run as societies: whether we are able to keep to the good old reason or we go back to the age of powerful all-knowing leaders and manipulated masses.

The Western Balkans region has returned to the center of European policymakers’ attention amidst increased concerns over geopolitical competition and inherent instability. The present study examines the major external players and their goals and policy tools in the region and – in spite of the EU’s less than stellar performance at the Sofia Summit of May 2018 – calls for a consistent and committed approach to the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU.