Journal of Regional Security https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec The Journal of Regional Security is an open access peer-reviewed journal specializing in the field of regional security studies published by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and University of Belgrade/Faculty of Political Science. en-US <!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} --> <!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545; min-height: 14.0px} span.s1 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #e4af0a} --> <p class="p1">Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.</p> <p class="p1">The published articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><span class="s1"> (CC BY)</span></a>. 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The paper finds two situations where regional powers defy expectations and details the causal models using India (1979-1980) and Russia (1996-1999) as illustrative cases. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The cases find underbalancing theory wanting at the regional level. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">In each case, the regional power performs a variety of diplomatic maneuvers&mdash;including but not limited to balancing and underbalancing&mdash;to mitigate the fallout of great power decisions. This is explained by the power asymmetries dividing great and regional powers, both constraining the actions of regional powers while motivating more creative diplomatic practices. It is said that great powers are &ldquo;Gullivers,&rdquo; tied down by their many responsibilities.&nbsp; This paper tells a different story, in which obstinate great powers make decisions without consideration for the locale where those decisions are carried out. It is the regional powers that are tied down by geostrategic position and regional security externalities. However weak or strong, these externalities create threats too salient to ignore. The findings suggest international political processes and outcomes can only be comprehensible by accounting for regional contexts and regional powers.</span></p> James Wesley Hutto Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Regional Security https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/42552 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:43:16 +0200 Achilles Steel? https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/45217 <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The term &ldquo;corrosive capital&rdquo; has become a popular phrase in Serbia and across the Western Balkans used to describe opaque and scandalous foreign investments that are believed to enable state capture. Particularly in Serbia, existing approaches to corrosive capital have certainly identified which investments are problematic. However, there is still a lack of understanding about which key actors are culpable for corrosive investments and the practices that enable them. Responsibility is often binarily assigned, either to the Vučić regime or non-Western actors. This paper, however, uses qualitative and quantitative methods to more rigidly investigate the networked structures and practices that bring about corrosive capital. Through the development of an analytical framework and an investigation of the Smederevo Železera privatization, this paper argues that corrosive capital is a multi-level phenomenon enabled by interactions between various domestic and foreign actors used as a tool of state capture and personal enrichment. This paper also notes that informal practices and deal-making between these actors in a project&rsquo;s early stages generate various spillovers that create an overall mosaic of corrosiveness.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Reade Ben Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Regional Security https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/45217 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Book Review of "Political Leadership in the European Union" https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/46588 Marcos León Santiago Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Regional Security https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/46588 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:34:27 +0100 A Book Review https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/41275 Milan Varda Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Regional Security https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/41275 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:53:25 +0100 Balkan Peace Index 2022: Trends and Analysis https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/46184 Tijana Recevic; Nemanja Džuverović Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Regional Security https://aseestant.ceon.rs/index.php/jouregsec/article/view/46184 Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:51:06 +0200