Issue 5(14) is structured around the proceedings of two conferences held in 2021: “The Blue Danube” and “Public Policy and Images of Power”. The Danube is presented in articles by authors from Austria, Hungary, and Serbia as part of a natural irrigation system, a transport artery, a military frontier, a myth, and a symbol. The image of power, the perception of state institutions, and the nature of political associations and national leaders is exemplified in the material on the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and socialist Czechoslovakia. The new rubric of the yearbook introduces the reader to the context of studying the public space of the monarchic courts and aristocratic salons of the modern era. The traditional rubric, “Forms of Social Organisation”, continues with articles on the women's movement in Serbia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the social role of the periodical press in the Kingdom of Hungary in the dualist era.