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Developing the state?s ability to project ?soft power? is becoming a
specialty of all major players in the international arena. it is an
integrative part of foreign policy with long-term goals and with its
cultural, ideological, political or humanitarian resources it offers an
attraction to the country towards which it is directed. There is a
theoretical agreement between American and Russian authors about the
potential contents of ?soft power?. The concept of ?soft power? given by
Professor Nye (Joseph Nye) was also accepted by Russian academics. However,
in the practice of ?soft power?, Russia is below the level of the USA, China
and the European Union, except in the sphere of humanitarian action.
Although humanitarian cooperation is implemented in a very broad scope, for
the purposes of this work, a narrower interpretation will be applied, which
implies immediate humanitarian aid, humanitarian operations and actions
carried out in situations of natural and man-made disasters, humanitarian
crises and armed conflicts. its uniqueness lies primarily in the specificity
of Russia?s national security system and the existence of the powerful
Ministry for Emergency Situations and Elimination of the Consequences of
Natural and Man-made Disasters, which offers a wide range capabilities for
the needs of international humanitarian cooperation. in the paper, the
Serbian-Russian humanitarian center will be shown in particular, as a good
example of humanitarian cooperation, but also a projection of the ?soft
power? of Russia.

The paper analyses the issue of political stability in the context of changes
in the positions of major political actors. The altered role of the
nation-state in the conditions of globalisation inevitably reflects on the
understanding of the security phenomenon. On the other hand, the number and
characteristics of security challenges and threats have increased
significantly. In addition to the previously present problems, there has
been an increase in drug trafficking, illegal migration, human organ
trafficking, an escalation of piracy, and the criminalisation of various
spheres of life. In the last two years, the world has also faced a new
global security problem, this time in the field of health - the COVID-19
pandemic. Practice has shown that (in most cases) the nation-state has
become weaker and less independent, and its corresponding state-centric
security system is inefficient, costly, cumbersome, and inadequate to many
new threats. The strength of this conclusion stems from the analysis of the
functioning of the national security system in the case of terrorist
attacks, but also from the study of the mechanisms used for overthrowing
sovereign states under the decisive influence of external factors.

The settlement of the ethnopolitical conflicts between Bosnian and Kosovo is examined. Adapted from the source document.