Dusan Pavlovic

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Students, where next?

The success of the various protests so far has depended on three elements. First, the opposition, in a rare moment of political maturity, overcame its own divisions. Second, the protest grew into a wider social coalition, in which, in addition to the opposition parties, civil society actors, independent intellectuals, prominent public figures, the academic community and international partners were also present. Thirdly, the citizens showed the ability of strategic political reasoning, rejecting the defeatism expressed in sentences like: "everyone is the same". They voted strategically

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The devastating influence of Gotham

Two episodes An unimportant man Stevan Subić are about Penguin. Their focus is on the inner character of the characters rather than the action side

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Intentions and consequences

Angela Merkel's autobiography, no matter how restrained and devoid of piquancy that would attract sensationalist attention, carries an exceptional value for the understanding of many contemporary political, economic and geopolitical processes and crises. The former German chancellor approaches topics from the point of view of state responsibility and public policy, and not through the prism of trivial details or insider testimonies

BRICS summit in Kazan

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.

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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

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Why the IMF is optimistic about Serbia

If a country borrows 18 billion euros to finance projects in a non-transparent way, and then half of that amount is used for corruption or misspent, the actual level of investment is only nine billion euros

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Berlin Declaration - ideas and consequences

On May 29, fifty world-renowned political economists signed a declaration on a new economic policy in Berlin. The declaration offers a change in the economic discourse - the redistribution of wealth, the policy of protecting the human environment and the concentration of market power

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Public spending and its monitoring

The Government of Serbia completed the third audit a few days ago standby agreement with the IMF, which was concluded in December 2022. After this audit, Serbia was granted an additional 400 million euros. Why is the IMF satisfied? The public often hears that the economic situation in Serbia is bad, and that even the agreement with the IMF itself was in crisis.

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Michel Houellebecq's political economy: family, market and liberal democracy from a different angle

Are we with a new novel? Cancelled got a different welbeck? In him, there is no longer the "omega" man and his frustrations with his social position. There is no more criticism of market (post-Fordist) capitalism, consumerism, liberalism, individualism, political correctness... Or is there? Only now it is being talked about from a more positive angle

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Three decisive factors

How will the latest Resolution of the European Parliament on the situation in Serbia affect Serbia's credit rating and borrowing in 2024? This is an important question, because Serbia is facing a period of significant public investments. The share of investment in GDP is projected to be around 26,5 percent in 2024/2025. year, which is an increase from 18,2 percent in the period 2010-2019. year. As is known, public investments in Serbia are mostly financed by borrowing, which depends on the country's credit rating. The credit rating is most affected by political or economic instability. The resolution cannot destabilize the situation in Serbia, but it announces that a future one may be able to

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Post-Pratov Corto remains a dreamer

Corto Maltese in the recently released album Black ocean it is different from the one we are used to when Hugo Pratt drew it. However, did we really get a different comic?