Active in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia since 1997, ICG has issued over twenty-five major policy reports analysing events in Serbia. Analysis in the past has concentrated on the former Belgrade regime's handling of the Kosovo crisis, the levers by which Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic dominated political life in Serbia, and the successful struggle of the Serb opposition, particularly in the run-up to the Yugoslav presidential elections of 24 September 2000.
With Milosevic now gone, ICG aims to focus on the challenges facing the Serbian authorities, the development of independent media and civil society, constitutional relations with Kosovo and Montenegro, and institutional and economic reform.