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Abstract
The Republic of Serbia has been an independent state since 2006, after the separation of Montenegro, which for the first time in modern history (since 1918) led to the need for all intelligence and security services, which previously had belonged to various state communities within Serbia, to be reconstituted as Serbian national services. In creating the Serbian intelligence and security system, there was a lot of wandering, unclear solutions, and misunderstandings—understandable given the historical and political context in which the creation of the system took place. The Serbian intelligence and security system consists of three services coordinated by the Coordination Bureau, which belongs to the National Security Council. The Serbian security intelligence system will undoubtedly go through many transformations in Serbia’s accession to the European Union. With this article, we have tried to present the current solutions in this system, which represent the basis for further transformations and adaptation of the system to the needs of modern Serbian society.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Some material for this article was taken from Zoran Dragišic´, System of National Security of Serbia (Belgrade: FB, 2020), and Darko Trifunovic, “European Intelligence Cooperation and the Balkan States,” Journal on Mediterranean Intelligence and Balkan Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2014), pp. 29–41.
Notes
1 National Security Strategy of Serbia. (2019). https://www.pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs/SlGlasnikPortal/eli/rep/sgrs/skupstina/strategija/2019/94/2
2 Constitution of the Republic of Serbia. (2006). http://www.ustavni.sud.rs/page/view/en-GB/235-100028/constitution
3 Zoran Dragišić, The National Security System of Serbia (Belgrade: FB, 2020), p. 96.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., p. 98.
6 Law on the Security Information Agency (BIA). https://www.bia.gov.rs/sites/default/files/inline-files/Zakon%20o%20BIA%202014eng.pdf
7 The National Security Strategy of Republic of Serbia. http://www.mod.gov.rs/multimedia/file/staticki_sadrzaj/dokumenta/strategije/2021/Prilog2-StrategijaNacionalneBezbednostiRS-ENG.pdf
8 Law on the Bases Regulating Security Services of the Republic of Serbia. http://www.voa.mod.gov.rs/documents/law-on-the-bases-regulating-security-services-of-the-republic-of-serbia.pdf
9 National Assembly of Serbia, “Structure.” http://www.parlament.gov.rs/national-assembly/composition.3686.html
10 Darko Trifunovic, “European Intelligence Cooperation and the Balkan States,” Journal on Mediterranean Intelligence and Balkan Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2014), pp. 29–41.
11 Criminal Code of Serbia. https://www.mpravde.gov.rs/files/Criminal%20%20%20Code_2019.pdf
12 B. Todorovic and Darko Trifunovic, “Prevention of (Ab-)Use of the Internet for Terrorist Plotting and Related Purposes,” in The Handbook of Terrorism Prevention and Preparedness, edited by Alex P. Schmid (The Hague, the Netherlands: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, 2021), pp. 594–620.
13 O. Dragash, Contemporary Intelligence and Security Community—Utopia or Reality (Belgrade: Rad, 2009).
14 Law on the Military Intelligence and Military Security Agency. http://www.voa.mod.gov.rs/documents/law-on-military-security-agency-and-military-intelligence-agency.pdf
15 Darko Trifunovic, Cyber Security-Virtual Space as an Area for Covert Terrorist Activities of Radical Islamists (Nis, Serbia: Teme, 2019).
16 Law on Civil Servants. http://www.voa.mod.gov.rs/documents/law-on-civil-servants.pdf
Additional information
Notes on contributors
Darko Trifunovic
Darko Trifunovic is a founding member and Director of the Institute for National and International Security in Serbia. He was is a Guest Professor and Researcher at FUDAN University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Science in China and a Professor in the Faculty of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade. The author can be contacted at [email protected].
Zoran Dragišić
Zoran Dragišic´ is a Full Professor and Vice-Dean for Development in the Faculty of Security Studies at the University of Belgrade. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as part of the parliamentary grouping of the Serbian Progressive Party. He was previously a candidate for President of Serbia in the 2012 election. The author can be contacted at [email protected].