About The Journal

NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE FUTURE

is dedicated to the advancement and understanding of principles and practices of intelligence and national security in contemporary history and foreign policy.

Together with Security Science Journal promoting security as a scientific discipline.

Editor-in-Chief (from February 2021):

Assoc. Prof. Gordan Akrap

Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, Zagreb, Croatia

Web of Science, ORCID, CroRIS, Google Scholar

Editor-in-Chief (1999 - January 2021):

Prof.Dr. Miroslav Tuđman (1945-2021)

St. George Association and University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Editorial Board:

Prof.Emeritus Jadranka Lasić-Lazić, University North, Koprivnica-Varaždin, Croatia, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Assoc. Prof. Iva Rosanda Žigo, University North, Koprivnica-Varaždin, Croatia, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1149-091X
Assoc. Prof. Thomas Wegener Friis, head of the Center for Cold War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Assist. Editor-in-Chief, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-2661
Vedran Matošić, St. George Association, Zagreb, Croatia, Executive director of the Board,
Prof.Emeritus Mladen Ančić, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Prof. Dr. Marc Cools, University of Ghent, Belgium (deceased June 10, 2025)
Prof.Dr. Mate Ljubičić, St. George Association, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof.Dr. Bojana Lakičević-Đuranović, University of Montenegro, Faculty of Law, Podgorica, Montenegro, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2430-8790
Prof.Dr. Ivica Lučić, Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof.Dr. John Nomikos, Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), Athens, Greece
Prof.Dr. Swaran Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4710-4790
Prof.Dr. Iztok Podbregar, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Science, Kranj, Slovenia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1977-4634
Prof.Dr. Shlomo Shpiro, Paterson Chair in Security and Intelligence, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5931-6315
Prof.Dr. Žejko Dobrović, Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, Zagreb, Croatia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1618-6658
Prof. Dr. Omar Ashour, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar (from May 22, 2025), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0130-0879
Prof. Dr. Giray Sadik, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Türkiye (from May 24, 2025), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4099-7840
Assoc. Prof. Dorthe Bach Nyemann, Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark (from June 26, 2025)
Assoc. Prof. Ante Bralić, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2373-208X
Assoc. Prof. Maksym Kamenetskyi, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7426-3655
Assist. Prof. Dražen Barbarić, University of Mostar, Faculty of Humanities, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1744-9392
Assist. Prof. Viacheslav Semenenko, Col. Military Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine (from May 22, 2025)
Assist. Prof. Przemyslaw Gasztold, War Studies University & Institute of National Remembrance, Warszaw, Poland, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4137-006X
Major General, Slaven Zdilar, PhD, Croatian Defense Academy „dr. Franjo Tuđman“, Zagreb, Croatia
Assist.Prof. Pavle Kalinić, University of Applied Sciences in Security and Safety, Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Oec, Jānis Bērziņš, Senior Researcher, National Defence Academy of Latvia (from May 22, 2025)
Dr. Zoran Ivanov, Adjunct Faculty at ERM Program at Arizona State University, USA; Balkan Studies Center, University of Economics and Techonology, Ankara, Turkiye, from May 26, 2025), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8486-648X
Damir Bevanda, PhD, University of Mostar, Faculty of Humanities, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Captain (ret.) Ivica Mandić, PhD candidate, St. George Association, Zagreb, Croatia
Tea Ostojić, MSc, PhD candidate, Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, Zagreb, Croatia (from July 30, 2025), ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3868-4332
Matea Brižić, MSc, PhD candidate, Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, Zagreb, Croatia (from July 30, 2025)

Reviewers (last update: May, 2025):

Prof.Dr. Nikolaj Lazić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
General (ret.) Dr. Ephraim Lapid, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Prof.Dr. Polona Šprajc, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Science, Kranj, Slovenia
Prof.Dr. Odd Jarl Borch, Nord Universitet, Norway, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3967-1165
Prof.Dr. Dragan Mišetić, Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof.Dr. Slavko Vidović, INFODOM, Zagreb, Croatia
Prof.Dr. Tormod Heier, Norwegian Defence University College, Norway, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0791-0090
Prof. Dr. Zoran Dragišić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Security, Belgrade, Serbia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8360-4285
Prof.Dr. Laris Gaiser, Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Dr. Eleni I. Kapsokoli, Department of International and Euroepan Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0782-181X
Dr. Roman Domović, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6250-3218
Dr. Filip Dragović, Institute for security policies, Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Stjepan Domjanić, Croatian Defense Academy "Dr. Franjo Tuđman", Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Barak Bouks, Bar Ilan University, Israel (from April 18, 2021), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6945-2556
Dr. Ali Madouni, University Mohamed Khider of Biskra, Algeria (from November 7, 2022), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7575-8607
Assist.Prof. Daria Vilkova, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine (from January 8, 2023), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5384-6884
Assist.Prof. Wladyslaw Bulhak, Institute of National Remembrance, Warszaw & University of Warsaw, Poland (from May 22, 2025), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0803-3061

Publishers:

Dr. Franjo Tuđman Defense and Security University, 10000 Zagreb, Ilica 256b, Croatia (from February 2024), https://sois-ft.hr/
St. George Association / Udruga sv. Jurja, 10000 Zagreb, Ulica Nikole Tesle 10, Croatia, www.usj.hr
University North / Sveučilište Sjever, Trg dr. Žarka Dolinara 1, 48000 Koprivnica, Croatia (from October 2023), https://www.unin.hr/

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