Iztok Prezelj
Biographic Data
| ID | 314715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iztok Prezelj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iztok |
| FAMILY NAME | Prezelj |
| SIGNATURE | PREZELJ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2725-7298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Political Polarization and Compromise in Secession Politics1
Why do some secession movements lead to violent conflict, others are resolved through policy concessions, while still others end in peaceful separation? Existing theories focused on information asymmetries or commitment problems cannot fully explain this variation in outcomes. We propose a bargaining theory of secession incorporating three critical factors: policy polarization, credible exit, and resource rents. We demonstrate that secessions dif…
Towards integrated crisis management
The importance of civil-military cooperation in strategic crisis man-agement is increasing due to the growing complexity of security environment. The aim of comprehensive crisis management is to reduce threats and normalize the overall situation, regardless ofinter-institutional differences. Despite numerous positive examples of civil-military cooperation, this paper identifies and analyses three typical types of problems within the HIT issue mod…
Mapping European Intelligence Education and Culture(s)
Intelligence education has been a fundamental pillar of intelligence practice since the beginning of organized and systematized approaches in this field. Typical approaches and most of the authors
Security and Liberty in Post‐9/11 US Counterterrorism
The article examines the rhetorical dimensions of US counterterrorism policy post‐9/11 through a comparative analysis of four key speeches by Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. Using Van Gorp’s (2007) hermeneutic framing analysis, the study explores how each administration balanced (or did not) the demands of national security and civil liberties across different political and historical contexts. The findings show these US presidents empl…
Recruitment models and approaches of Islamist terrorist groups
The recruitment of new members requires delicate secret steps by terrorist and extremist organisations.This vital organisational activity needs to be smart and effective, takes time, and can be discovered by security and intelligence services.This paper shows that recruitment is a flexible multi-tool process able to be smartly adapted to suit the circumstances, needs and character of targeted individuals.We test and confirm the hypothesis that al…
Intelligence scandals
Most countries that possess intelligence services have encountered intelligence scandals involving actual or alleged intelligence activities. This paper offers a definition of intelligence scandal and creates a new analytical model for assessing intelligence scandals. Application of the analytical model to six key intelligence scandals in North Macedonia shows that various intelligence and political actors can commit a wide range of transgression…
Recognizing youth radicalization in schools
International research shows that youth is one of the groups that are the most vulnerable and most susceptible to radicalization. Some of the research findings show school workers' lack of academic knowledge and practical experience with radicalized youth. As a result, they correlate general criminality with radicalization. The purpose of this study was to identify school workers' readiness for detecting radicalization and taking preventive measu…
Criminal and networked state capture in the Western Balkans
Organized crime and corruption have become the biggest security threats in the Western Balkans since the major wars there ended. They have slowed down the transition and accession progress of several countries. We argue in this paper that the Western Balkans occasionally faces the problem of networked state capture based on a corrupt nexus among organized crime, business, politics, security services and the judiciary. First, the concept of multid…
Democratisation of Defence Policies and Systems in Slovenia and Montenegro
The democratisation of national defence policies and systems plays a vital role in making any country more democratic. The democratic transition of this sector in Slovenia and Montenegro has experienced a challenging reform process and it is now time for reflection. This paper aims to identify the main characteristics and issues of the democratisation process in the field of national defence in both countries and, by comparing them, to look for k…
Fukushima Through the Prism of Chernobyl
This research explores influential factors of using narratives of Chernobyl in media reporting about the Fukushima nuclear accident: radiological consequences, geographical distance from the accident, status of a nuclear energy production, public opinion about nuclear energy and the level of a nuclear accident (INES scale). This study applies a large-scale media content analysis of newspapers articles (N = 1340) published in the first two months …
Issues of local ownership in Kosovo’s security sector
Local ownership represents an overarching concept in international development. However, its core principles have been occasionally neglected in the practice of state-building such as in the case of Kosovo. This paper explores relations between the international community and local actors in the process of Kosovo security sector development after 2008, when the country declared its independence. This article finds that externally-driven models we…
Quantitative monitoring of military transformation in the period 1992–2010
Military transformation is a complex, slow, asymmetric, changeable, political, and not necessarily completely rational process that clearly needs an effective monitoring mechanism. This paper fills a gap in current literature by creating and testing a model for multi-dimensional and multi-level quantitative monitoring of military transformation applicable in any country. The model is based on 10 transformation indicators that reflect changes in o…
Inter-organizational Cooperation and Coordination in the Fight against Terrorism
The inter-organizational lesson in the fight against terrorism has been clearly identified after 9/11, but not completely learned and applied. Horizontal cooperation and coordination structures have been established, yet due to many challenges they do not function optimally. This article reaches beyond the prevailing mantra concerning the need for inter-organizational cooperation in the fight against terrorism by providing a framework for underst…
Recognizing youth radicalization in schools
International research shows that youth is one of the groups that are the most vulnerable and most susceptible to radicalization. Some of the research findings show school workers' lack of academic knowledge and practical experience with radicalized youth. As a result, they correlate general criminality with radicalization. The purpose of this study was to identify school workers' readiness for detecting radicalization and taking preventive measu…
Inter-organizational Cooperation and Coordination in the Fight against Terrorism
The inter-organizational lesson in the fight against terrorism has been clearly identified after 9/11, but not completely learned and applied. Horizontal cooperation and coordination structures have been established, yet due to many challenges they do not function optimally. This article reaches beyond the prevailing mantra concerning the need for inter-organizational cooperation in the fight against terrorism by providing a framework for underst…
Quantitative monitoring of military transformation in the period 1992–2010
Military transformation is a complex, slow, asymmetric, changeable, political, and not necessarily completely rational process that clearly needs an effective monitoring mechanism. This paper fills a gap in current literature by creating and testing a model for multi-dimensional and multi-level quantitative monitoring of military transformation applicable in any country. The model is based on 10 transformation indicators that reflect changes in o…
Issues of local ownership in Kosovo’s security sector
Local ownership represents an overarching concept in international development. However, its core principles have been occasionally neglected in the practice of state-building such as in the case of Kosovo. This paper explores relations between the international community and local actors in the process of Kosovo security sector development after 2008, when the country declared its independence. This article finds that externally-driven models we…
Fukushima Through the Prism of Chernobyl
This research explores influential factors of using narratives of Chernobyl in media reporting about the Fukushima nuclear accident: radiological consequences, geographical distance from the accident, status of a nuclear energy production, public opinion about nuclear energy and the level of a nuclear accident (INES scale). This study applies a large-scale media content analysis of newspapers articles (N = 1340) published in the first two months …
Criminal and networked state capture in the Western Balkans
Organized crime and corruption have become the biggest security threats in the Western Balkans since the major wars there ended. They have slowed down the transition and accession progress of several countries. We argue in this paper that the Western Balkans occasionally faces the problem of networked state capture based on a corrupt nexus among organized crime, business, politics, security services and the judiciary. First, the concept of multid…
Democratisation of Defence Policies and Systems in Slovenia and Montenegro
The democratisation of national defence policies and systems plays a vital role in making any country more democratic. The democratic transition of this sector in Slovenia and Montenegro has experienced a challenging reform process and it is now time for reflection. This paper aims to identify the main characteristics and issues of the democratisation process in the field of national defence in both countries and, by comparing them, to look for k…
Recognizing youth radicalization in schools
International research shows that youth is one of the groups that are the most vulnerable and most susceptible to radicalization. Some of the research findings show school workers' lack of academic knowledge and practical experience with radicalized youth. As a result, they correlate general criminality with radicalization. The purpose of this study was to identify school workers' readiness for detecting radicalization and taking preventive measu…
Intelligence scandals
Most countries that possess intelligence services have encountered intelligence scandals involving actual or alleged intelligence activities. This paper offers a definition of intelligence scandal and creates a new analytical model for assessing intelligence scandals. Application of the analytical model to six key intelligence scandals in North Macedonia shows that various intelligence and political actors can commit a wide range of transgression…
Recruitment models and approaches of Islamist terrorist groups
The recruitment of new members requires delicate secret steps by terrorist and extremist organisations.This vital organisational activity needs to be smart and effective, takes time, and can be discovered by security and intelligence services.This paper shows that recruitment is a flexible multi-tool process able to be smartly adapted to suit the circumstances, needs and character of targeted individuals.We test and confirm the hypothesis that al…
Mapping European Intelligence Education and Culture(s)
Intelligence education has been a fundamental pillar of intelligence practice since the beginning of organized and systematized approaches in this field. Typical approaches and most of the authors
Security and Liberty in Post‐9/11 US Counterterrorism
The article examines the rhetorical dimensions of US counterterrorism policy post‐9/11 through a comparative analysis of four key speeches by Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. Using Van Gorp’s (2007) hermeneutic framing analysis, the study explores how each administration balanced (or did not) the demands of national security and civil liberties across different political and historical contexts. The findings show these US presidents empl…
Political Polarization and Compromise in Secession Politics1
Why do some secession movements lead to violent conflict, others are resolved through policy concessions, while still others end in peaceful separation? Existing theories focused on information asymmetries or commitment problems cannot fully explain this variation in outcomes. We propose a bargaining theory of secession incorporating three critical factors: policy polarization, credible exit, and resource rents. We demonstrate that secessions dif…
Towards integrated crisis management
The importance of civil-military cooperation in strategic crisis man-agement is increasing due to the growing complexity of security environment. The aim of comprehensive crisis management is to reduce threats and normalize the overall situation, regardless ofinter-institutional differences. Despite numerous positive examples of civil-military cooperation, this paper identifies and analyses three typical types of problems within the HIT issue mod…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)