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The Judgment of the International Court of Justice in the case of mutual claims for the breach of the Genocide Convention between Croatia and Serbia represents the final outcome of 16 years of a dispute which burdened their bilateral relations on everyday basis. Bearing in mind that the International Court of Justice, as the international judicial authority with highest legitimacy in contemporary international order, found both claims to be unfounded, the judgment can represent an impulse for governments of both countries to settle the problematic legacy of years of conflict and mutual allegations. However, some passages from the judgment might be used also as means of diplomatic pressure by both governments, since the International Court of Justice blamed the Croatian government for the grave crimes short of genocide commited during the Operation Storm, but also adopted the interpretation of the ICTY’s joint criminal enterprise jurisprudence which foreshadows further prosecutions for political personalities allegedly connected with the conception of Greater Serbia.

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In the past few years, after 50 years on academic margins the debate on a world government (or world state) is renewed. Traditionally it is followed by aversion toward world state, nowdays called globoscepticism. The paper focuses on classical liberal thinkers of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their views on a world state, that have been rooted in early federal peace proposals and analyses of modern political thinkers (Rousseau, Bentham, Cobden, Mill, Smith, Mill). The author points out on Kant’s “federalism of free states”, to show it did not imply support for world state but improved international law. Also, it is confirmed that globoskepticism of the classical British liberals, or thair distrust of a world organization, arises from general liberal distrust of a big state political organization. The classical liberal attitude has been abandoned by new liberal internationalists at the beginning of the twentieth century, but classical liberal doctrine continues to have both an academic influence and practical outcomes.

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After the Cold War civil defense was transformed into civil protection. This part of the state structure moved from the armed forces in the civilian sector. There are two reasons. First, direct threat of nuclear war stopped. Second, major natural disasters caused by climate changes. Today’s civil protection is organized in order to protect life and property in the event of disasters caused by nature or man. The European Union is due to the problems that arise when disasters appear start a process aimed at higher efficiency of civil protection in the Member States, but also the formation of a joint civil protection system on its territory. A key reason for the formation of a joint civil protection system is a phenomenon that disaster in one country causes consequences in several neighbouring countries. This is why the framework of modernization of the European Union Civil Protection includes non-member states.

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It is not necessary to explain the importance of foreign direct investment, particularly in less developed countries, bearing in mind the numerous theoretical and empirical papers that confirm their importance and effects that the inflow of these investments in the country can make. The movement of these investments on the global level is characterized by significant changes, especially in recent years, in their volume, geographically distribution as well as in the conditions in which they take place – conditions of instability and crisis interruptions, growing regional and interregional integration and altered foreign direct investment policies. Trends in their movements are mirrored in individual countries, stressing on the need for their continuous monitoring and detailed analysis. Therefore the paper will identified the key trends that characterize the contemporary global flows of foreign direct investments.

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The global economic crisis strongly affects economic slowdown in the world due to the effects of reduced demand in developed economies. The fall in demand in the European market had a negative impact on Serbia’s foreign trade and economic growth. The reduction in export demand, reduction of industrial production, the company in default, wage cuts and rising unemployment are the main features of the crisis that has engulfed Serbia. Serbia needs structural reforms at all levels in order to increase the competitiveness of the economy, which is now at a low level. In the last decade Serbia’s economic development based on the integration in European and global markets and foreign direct investment. An additional impact of crisis in Serbia was a significant shortage of foreign capital. The decline and fall of the investment trust in the banking system, manifested by withdrawal of foreign funds from the financial system and reduce foreign exchange liquidity.The recovery of Serbian economy can be expected by introduction of new reforms, economic measures. In addition to reducing the fiscal deficit and savings, it is expected a creation of favorable business environment for investment and business. Political and economic stability is the basis for attracting foreign direct investment.

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For many years now Serbia is persistent in its attempt to become a full member of the World Trade Organization. Countries that are not yet members represent a tiny minority of the total world trade, and Serbia is one of them. Membership in the WTO is de facto requirement for accession to the European Union. This paper explains how far Serbia traveled in her way to this international organization, whose agreements are governing the global rules of trade between nations. Special attention was paid to the question why it is important that Serbia joins this organization, and what can be concluded from the accession experiences of countries in the region. The authors of this study will try to explain the importance of the WTO accession, and the manner in which membership in this organization will affect Serbia’s existing foreign trade relations.