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Political power and state institutions, primarily in the sense of interweaving and reduction of their political power, is a research topic that has been going on for thousands of years. Many have studied the intertwined corridors of these political phenomena, but they have never been able to fully explore this topic. In this paper, their causal relationship is analyzed, with a special emphasis on the tendency of political power and state institutions to become alienated, in which these “servants of the people” are transferred over time to lords, which is why this paper starts from the position that political power wants to subordinate state institutions. The scientific importance is primarily contained in the effort to further enrich the scientific fund in the field of political theory and the state. The aim of the research is much more ambitious and is contained primarily in the intention to point out all the positive and negative repercussions that arise from the complex relations between the political power and state institutions, with the intention of pointing out these social anomalies and to increase the degree of democratization, but also functionality of society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Security services as specialized state bodies represent an important part of any national security system and as such bear the responsibility for achieving overall security. In carrying out their activities and tasks, they are authorized to apply different measures and methods and the most effective are measures for secret data compiling. Although effective, their prescription and application are always sensitive, since they are measures that deviate more or less from guaranteed human rights, above all the right to privacy and the right to secrecy of communication. After the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, “the war on terror” and in general the activities on the achieving of national security have often been marked by violations of human rights under the pretext of protecting the public interest and national security. In order to prevent the measures and activities in the realization of national security from turning into terrorism and state terror, the Council of Europe and European Union have adopted certain rules which states members should adhere to when prescribing and implementing measures of secret data compiling in order to achieve an important goal - to respect the standards of the rule of law, thus safeguarding public and private interests equally. Analysis of the security service’s measures of secret data compiling for preventive purposes in this paper include legal solutions in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though security services have the same function as before, today they have different tasks and significantly more work than before. Modern security problems of the late 20th and early 21st century require states to reorganize their security services, adapting them to the new changes. The reorganization involves, among other things, giving wider powers of the security services, in order to effectively counter the growing and sophisticated security threats, which may also lead to violations of human rights and freedoms. It is therefore necessary to define the right competence, organization, authority and control of these services. In democratic countries, there are several institutions with different levels of control of security services. Parliament is certainly one of the most important institutions in that control, both in the world and in our country. Powers, finance, the use of special measures and the nature and scope of work of the Security Information Agency are certainly object of the control of the National Assembly. What seems to be the problem is achieving a balance between the need for control of security services and security services to have effective methods for combating modern security problems. This paper presents the legal framework related to the National Assembly control of the Security Intelligence Agency, as well as the practical problems associated with this type of control. We analyzed the role of security culture as one of the factors of that control. In this regard, it provides guidance for the practical work of the members of parliament who control the Security Intelligence Agency, noting in particular the importance of and the need for continuous improvement of security culture representatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To achieve the security objectives and legally defined competence of the state, it is impossible without adequate economic resources. This means that economic resources are the basis of the economic and, therefore, national security of the country. By monitoring and evaluating economic indicators it becomes clear what the results of the work of the national economy are and what is expected of them. In addition, it provides feedback on the risks and threats to the likelihood of adverse economic events, that is, threats to trigger crises in the economic and political stability of a country. Evaluation of the movement of economic indicators, serves for making quality decisions in the field of strategic planning of the use of economic resources of importance for the security sector. It establishes the general and individual plans and objectives of the security entities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Lisbon Treaty has brought significant changes into the architecture of the European Union. The most important novelty, however, is the establishment of a full unity of the Union structure achieved by creating new and strengthening the existing elements. The new elements of this unity are the disappearance of the European Community, the „independence“ of the European Atomic Energy Community, consituting the European Union as a single entity and the introduction of EU values. At the same time, the Lisbon Treaty has strengthened the existing elements of the common institutional mechanisms, rules on amending the founding treaties and EU membership. However, consituting the Union as a single entity which has replaced and succeeded the European Communities has not abolished the EU elements of diversity. In the areas that differed, even before the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, from the community pillar, there remain significant differences in the nature and the scope of competences of the Union institutions. This mainly regards the common foreign and security policy, which now includes the defense policy, where the existing model of inter-state cooperation has been only slightly interfered with. In contrast, in the field of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, which has become part of a larger Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, the inter-state model of cooperation has been abandoned in some of its most important elements. However, the implementation of some of the important elements of the supranational model has been postponed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]