Geopolitics of the XXI. century

Geopolitics of the XXI. century

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In the book Geopolitics of the XXI. century. Social challenges and international balances by authors Sanja Vujačić and Jadranka Polović,both with PhDs in political science and geopolitical analysts, collected their scientific and professional texts written and published from 2017 to 2024, systematically monitoring and evaluating a number of geopolitical and social challenges, both global and regional. Focusing on an analytical approach, the opening of debate and transdisciplinary dialogue, the authors treat two large entities in a relevant, layered and stimulating way, bringing in each part of the book a series of texts in which they approach selected geopolitical phenomena in an argumentative, polemical and multi-layered way in order to encourage readers in discusions and dialogue that are at the core of scientific verification.

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Although the common foreign and security policy is one of its fundamental pillars, the European Union is unable to resolve any of the crises it faces: from the war in the former Yugoslavia to the recent conflicts taking place in its immediate neighborhood – the one in Ukraine, Azerbaijani-Armenian or Israeli-Palestinian war that threatens to set the Middle East on fire. The EU does not have acceptable solutions for the Western Balkans either, the collapse of the enlargement policy is obvious, which is less and less attractive to the candidate countries. Although these regions are of priority geopolitical interest of the European Union, solutions are sought among other geopolitical actors while the EU passively and helplessly observes the escalation of tensions in its backyard – the area of ​​Eurasia.

Jadranka Polović

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At the beginning of XXI. century, the West found itself in the same trap that the USSR was in in the 90s. In the zone of influence of the West, liberal single-mindedness (individualism) reigns, as it used to be communist in the USSR (collectivism). In order to protect itself from the penetration of a competing ideology, this time the West lowered the iron curtain towards the East (The West vs. the Rest) and thus dangerously threatened its own survival. Namely, human organizations are the most complex systems subject to natural laws. And every closure of a system within its own boundaries leads to entropic death – its demise. So why would the West fare better today than the USSR did at the end of the 1980s?

Sanja Vujačić

  • ISBN: 978-953-369-052-0
  • Dimensions: 155x230 mm
  • Number of pages: 340
  • Cover: paperback
  • Year of the edition: 2024

This book brings a political stance on the crisis of modernity, which simultaneously dissolves knowledge (postmodernism) and homogenizes culture (transhumanism). The result of that geopolitical crisis of the world, the opposition of freedom exactly where it should be the basis of the social fabric, has been brought into focus. As pointed out in the foreword of the book: „We cannot reinvent democratic commitments. That is why it is worth reviving them.“ Therefore, this book calls for the rediscovery of the objective principles of cultural, sociological and civilizational differences.
prof. Ph.D. Petar Popović


Current social and geopolitical challenges of the XXI. century, which are at the center of the author's interests, in this book have received appropriate credibility and integration into a logically set whole. Their way of connecting and interpreting these challenges, that is, geopolitical and social processes and actors, is the key scientific contribution of the work, just like the possibility of initiating a dialogue with them.
Assoc. Ph.D. Boško Picula