From October last year to January this year, students of a double-degree master programme in the field of defence studies theoretically and practicallyexamined regional security complexes within the lessons of securitystudies. This issue of the magazine presents the concept and meaning of examining regional security complexes and basic premises of a methodological apparatus or analytical concept through which the examination was conducted. In the next issues of the magazine the students will present basic results of researches on four regional security complexes, namely Mercosur countries, West African countries, Northeast Asia and former Soviet Union countries
