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The recent trends in Beijing’s foreign policy have become a broadly discussed topic throughout the world. China’s economic success over the last ten years has led Beijing to take a more assertive approach to China’s relationship with the outside world. This shift has manifested itself in a more hard-line approach to China’s relationship with her partners, less inclination toward compromise, and a tendency to respond to the external pressure with more pressure, to the external bumps with harder bumps. The new assertiveness of China can be understood. After all, it is merely the natural urge of a new, large, and successful regime to actively pursue its interests. At the same time, it is true that the successful economic development of the last ten years has led to the growth of nationalism among the elite. If the nationalist tendency prevails in the Chinese foreign policy, China’s neighbors, including Russia, will have to do some serious rethinking of their approach to the growing giant.

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The paper is an attempt to assess relative importance of selected motives for foreign banks entry into Serbian banking market, as well as the changes that followed it, above all in terms of level of competition. We used questionnaires structured according to the main findings that come out of existing theoretical and empirical research on motives for FDI in banking industry. In addition, the goal of this study is to reveal the links between paradigms and theories, which are up to explaining determinants and motives of FDI in banking and the other industries, find common features, peculiarities and use it to refine research methodology.

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Since the ancient times till the present the international community has provided various forms of co-operation for the purpose of criminal prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of the most serious criminal acts that in the most severe and violent ways violate the rules of international law breaching or jeopardising the humanity and other property, which are protected by the international system of legal rules. Among them the most important form consists of the establishment and acting of international criminal courts that in the interest of justice and in the name of the civilised part of the mankind or enlightened peoples presses criminal charges and pronounces sentences and other criminal sanctions against perpetrators of international criminal acts. There are several kinds of international judicial bodies with different law features and duration. The paper deals with their characteristics, roles and organisation both from the theoretical and practical aspects.

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A man by his actions in pursuit of better living conditions, particularly in recent decades, threaten the natural environment, violating the eternal mutual, harmonious and dependent relationship and balance that existed in the living world, and making their own survival uncertain. The importance of environmental protection as well as goods of general interest is incorporated in the fundamental determinants of EU policy, which coincides with the trend expressed ecological consciousness at the global level. Protecting the environment through criminal law response to the expansion ecological crime that inflicts significant damage to the environment and human health.

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This paper analyses confrontation that occurred between Armenia and Azerbaijan concerning Nagorno Karabakh territory, as well as the many attempts to finally get this conflict resolved. The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno Karabakh ended with the ceasefire agreement under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group, which is empowered for final resolvment of this issue. This process has been going on for years, but a solution is yet to come. The European Union in recent years is trying to reduce dependence on Russian natural gas and orients to new suppliers, primarily in the southern Caucasus region. Western countries are interested in resolving conflicts in South Caucasus due to its economic and political interests in the region and the fact that these conflicts pose a risk to investment. The authors of the paper will bring forth the views of all stakeholders in addressing the problem of Nagorno Karabakh and analyze their interests in an attempt to predict the possible final solution to the conflict.