INTERNATIONAL MILITARY COOPERATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COMMON SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

BERIŠA Hatidža (Škola nacionalne odbrane, Univerzitet odbrane Beograd; Vojna akademija Univerzitet odbrane, Beograd), hatidza.berisa@mod.gov.rs
KORSEV Goran
STEVANOVIĆ Dragan

In modern international relations, states no longer achieve their security based on their own national interests and values but build it through cooperation and alliances with leading world powers and within regional and global initiatives (the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the European Union, and others). In this sense, within its foreign policy, the Republic of Serbia has defined four strategic “pillars” of cooperation, namely the European Union, the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the People\'s Republic of China. At the level of regional cooperation, the Republic of Serbia is strengthening its relations with its neighbours, but it is also actively participating in numerous regional initiatives. All of this contributes to the process of European integration as one of the strategic foreign policy priorities of our country, as declared by the Ministry of Defence. The research includes an analysis of international military cooperation within the European Union\'s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). The research goal of the work includes the systematisation of knowledge about the achieved level of international military cooperation as well as the Ministry of Defence\'s prediction of the possibility of further improvement of this cooperation for the purpose of improving research in this area.

Keywords: Security, cooperation, Serbia, military cooperation, European Union, CSDP.