The main ambition of this paper is to explain and analyze the difficult relations between China and Taiwan and its possible consequences for the regional and international security. The role of the United States is considered as a key actor. It permits to understand the strategies of the different actors due to the strong support given by Washington to Taiwan. The economic relations between the two neighbors are also interesting, to show how the topic is complex and sensitive. Our goal is to propose an analysis mentioning the ambitions of the different sides and their limits due to the realpolitik.

Research on how to implement blockchain technology within governance has avoided to further explore on the possibilities of the technology to replace standard nation state architectures. This in turn has created a wave of technological questions directed to better enforce decentralization and security within the popular networks, rather than proposing normative possibilities to be implemented into the institutional framework of the state. This article addresses this issue by analyzing a set of functional areas with the aim of replacing processes, institutions and actors that are often considered as part of the modern bureaucratic nation state. It also drafts functional concepts and recommendations on security issues that should be addressed in any attempt to implement blockchain solutions at the national level.

Vanredne situacije predstavljaju vanredno i poremeceno stanje drustva izazvano događajima velikih razmera, kojima se paralise funkcionisanje drustvenog sistema zemlje, ili kad nastanu prirodne i tehnickotehnoloske katastrofe velikog obima koje ugrožavaju život stanovnistva i njihovu imovinu i materijalna dobra. Upravo su seizmoloski potresi reprezentativni primer u prikazivanju etabliranosti sistema prevencije i zastite kao moguceg odgovora na krizu vecih razmera.