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P O L I T E I A

Academic Journal for Social Issues of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Banja Luka

ISSN 2232-9641

e-ISSN 2566-2805

UDK 32(05) "POLITEIA"

University of Banja Luka – Faculty of Political Sciences,
Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovica 1A, 78000 Banja Luka, B&H
Тel: +387 51 304-011
http://www.fpn.unibl.org

Institute for Political Studies
Svetozara Markovića 36, 11000 Beograd, Serbia,
Тel: +381 11 334-9204
http://www.ipsbgd.edu.rs

E-mail: info@politeia.fpn.unibl.org
URL: http://politeia.fpn.unibl.org

Editor-in-Chief:

Ranka Perić Romić

Executive Editor:

Željko Budimir

Editorial Board:

Živojin Đurić (Serbia), Milomir Stepić (Serbia), Nenad Kecmanović (B&H), Braco Kovačević (B&H), Aleksandar Bogdanić (B&H), Aleksandar Savanović (B&H), Đorđe Vuković (B&H), Vesna Šućur-Janjetović (B&H), Darko Tanasković (B&H), Srđa Trifković (B&H), Zdravko Zlokapa (B&H), Aleksandar Vranješ (B&H)

International Editorial Board:

Darja Zaviršek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Ronald L. Hatchett (Schreiner University, USA); Miro Haček (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Mary Neuburger (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Claude Mangion (University of Malta, Malta); Diego Fusaro (Institute for Higher Strategic and Political Studies, Italy); Guadalupe Martínez Fuentes (University of Granada, Spain); Vassilis K. Fouskas (University of East London, United Kingdom); Todor Galounov (St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria); Ana Nikodinovska Krstevska (Goce Delchev University, Macedonia); Klara Bilgin (Virginia International University, USA); Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Andrej A. Lukšič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Robert Holman (University of Economics, Prague, Czech); Ilias Kouskouvelis (University of Macedonia, Greece); Konstantin N. Lobanov (Belgorod Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russia); Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Laurence Armand French (University of New Hampshire, USA); Taro Tsukimura (Doshisha University, Japan); Jacqueline Briggs (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom); Steven E. Meyer (Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security, USA); Žiga Vodovnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Jelena Zlatar Gamberožić (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia); Alexandra F. Yakovleva (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia); Artur Demchuk (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia); Thengamehlo H. Ngwenya (Durban University of Technology, South Africa); Gabriella Schubert (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany); Cirila Toplak (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Maia Y. Rousseva (St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria); Philip I. Ouzounov (St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria); Manuel Martín Algarra (University of Navarra, Spain); Silviu E. Rogobete (West University of Timisoara, Romania); Piero Ignazi (University of Bologna, Italy); Teresa La Porte Fernández-Alfaro (University of Navarra, Spain); Andrew R. G. Milne (Sciences Po Toulouse, France).  

Electronic Edition Editor and Graphic Editor:

Željko Budimir

Language Editor and Proofreader:

Dragomir Kozomara

Slađana Cukut

Tanja Bulatović

English translation:

Branko Crnogorac

Print:

«Grafid» Banja Luka – for print: Branislav Ivanković, director

Semi-annual Journal

CIP – Catalogization in Publications of the National Library of Serbia, Belgrade


32

The Politeia : Academic Journal for Social Issues
Editor-in-Chief: Zdravko Zlokapa.
 - Vol. 1, Issue. 1 (july 2011)- . - Banja Luka :
Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Banja 
Luka ; Belgrade : Institute for Political Studies,
2011- (Banja Luka : Grafid). - 24 cm

Semi-annual Journal. - Online issue:
Politeia (Banja Luka. Online) = ISSN 2566-2805
ISSN 2232-9641 = Politeiа (Banja Luka)
COBISS.SR-ID 520271255

All submitted manuscripts relevant to the journal’s profile are reviewed.
All referees are eminent external experts in relevant fields, with papers published in these fields in the past three years. The reviewers must not be from the author's own institution, and they should not have recent joint publications with any of the authors.The Editorial Board applies the iThenticate (CrossRef and CrossCheck) service for verifying the originality of submitted papers and for preventing duplicate publishing and plagiarism.

The Journal applies a ‘double blind peer review process’ for papers. Authors and reviewers are anonymous to each other in the process of review. Reviews after the article has been published are allowed and encouraged for subsequent evaluation of papers and authors.

A peer reviewer assists the Editorial Board in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communications with the author, they may also assist the author in improving the paper.  Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process. During the review process , the Editorial Board may require authors to provide additional information (including raw data) if they are necessary for the evaluation of the scholarly merit of the manuscript. These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain. 

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the Еditorial Board.
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly, with supporting arguments. Reviewers (trebalo bi se opredijeliti za jedan oblik, referees or reviewers)should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the author. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation.The reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in the reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through a peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Papers classified as scholarly must have at least two positive reviews. Throughout the process, all of the reviewers of the paper act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editor may assign additional reviewers.

A usual reviewing period is 15 days.

Having finished the review, the referee makes one of the following decisions:

- “Publish without any changes”,
- “Publish with suggested changes”,
- “Change and resubmit for a review”,
- “Refuse the manuscript”.

The Editorial Board then informs the author about the contents of the review and suggests that the referee’s decision be followed.

The Editorial team is obliged to ensure reasonable quality control for the reviews.  In case reviews are convincingly questioned by authors, special attention will be paid to ensure that the reviews are objective and high in academic standard. When there is any doubt with regard to the objectivity of the reviewers or quality of the review, additional reviewers will be assigned.

The detailed instructions on following the referee’s decision are available on the web page Instructions for Electronic Editing - ASEESTANT. Reviews are processed electronically through the ASEESTANT system for journal online editing and publishing. The ASEESTANT supports all activities of editorial management, from a creation of a journal page, over article submission, monitoring of the reviewing process, documentation administration, and maintenance of record keeping, to making final decisions and publishing volumes on the journal’s own web page.

The Editorial Board has an obligation to send to the author a copy of the review or the rationale to account for the refusal to publish the manuscript. Copies of reviews are also sent to the Ministry of the Education of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Srpska at their request submitted to the Editorial Board

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  Aleksandar Gajić, Institute of European Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Aleksej Timofejev, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy (Serbia)
Bilјana Milošević Šošo, University of Istocno Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Biserka Košarac, University of Istocno Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Boban Tomić, College for Communications, Belgrade (Serbia)
Božidar Banović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies (Serbia)
Bojan Vranić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences (Serbia)
Bojana Vasilјević Polјašević, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Law (BiH)
Borislav Vukojević, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Đorđe Stojanović, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Dragan Đukanović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences (Serbia)
Dragana Dinić, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Dragana Trninić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Dragana Vilić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Economics (BiH)
Dragolјub B. Đorđević, University of Nis, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Serbia)
Draško Gajić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Draško Marinković, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (BiH)
Duško Trninić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Goran Latinović, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Jelena Vukoičić, Independent University of Banja Luka, Faculty for Political Sciences (BiH)
Ljilјana Stević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences (Serbia)
Ljubomir Lepir, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Manja Đurić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Marica Šlјukić, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy (Serbia)
Marija Đorić, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Milena Karapetrović, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Milomir Stepić, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Miloš Stanković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Mirko Blagojević, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade (Serbia)
Mladen Milošević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies (Serbia)
Nada Raduški, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Nataša Vilić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Nemanja Đukić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Nenad Putnik, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies (Serbia)
Nevenko Vranješ, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Nina Sajić, Institute for Strategic Analysis and Dialogue, Banja Luka (BiH)
Radoslav Gaćinović, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Ranka Perić Romić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Slobodan Janković, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade (Serbia)
Srđan Šlјukić, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy (Serbia)
Vesna Šućur Janjetović, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Vlade Simović, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Vuk Vučetić, University of Istocno Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Želimir Kešetović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies (Serbia)
Dalibor Savić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Bojana Vukojević, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Bojan Vlaški, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Law (BiH)
Biljana Babić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philology (BiH)
Mira Ćuk, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Zoran Slavujević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences (Serbia)
Strahinja Dimitrijević, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philosophy (BiH)
Vesna Stanković Pejnović, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Ljubinka Kovačević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Marko Stanković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Danilo Vuković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Matej Savić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Aleksandra Kolaković, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Lazar Žolt, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy (Serbia)
Ljubiša Despotović, Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade (Serbia)
Nebojša Vuković, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade (Serbia)
Mirolјub Radojković, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences (Serbia)
Bojan Milisavlјević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Vladan Petrov, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Siniša Atlagić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences (Serbia)
Goran Marković, University of Istocno Sarajevo, Faculty of Law (BiH)
Olivera Grbić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Political Sciences (BiH)
Stevan Rapajić, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade (Serbia)
Milan Lipovac, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security Studies (Serbia)