Political science is growing more and more in importance in the conceptually and structurally complex and uncertain process of democratic transition and development of the Croatian society and state, and within the EU association process and all-embracing harmonization with its standards and norms. Political science as a multi-branch science examines important questions such as the Bologna process, EU public policies, national security of the EU member states and the European security order. With its knowledge, it also takes part in the process of public administration reforming, examines the transformation of the political system of the Republic of Croatia in the circumstances of the accession to the EU. This and other knowledge that is gained and extended at the doctoral level are of strategic importance for society and state.