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Yugoslav Diplomacy and the Greek Coup d’État of 1967
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, 2019)
Intensive conversations with members of political parties, closely reading the press, talks with other foreign diplomats, analytical evaluations of many individual events and their contextualization in the wider picture ...
Modernization Mixed with Nationalism
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2014)
This essay reflects on a particular manner in which modernisation have taken place in the Balkans in modern history, from the 1878 Berlin Congress onwards. The Balkan countries faced twofold difficulties in their development: ...
The Great War and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia: The Legacy of an Enduring Conflict
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2018)
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, officially named Yugoslavia after 1929, came into being on the ruins of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 after the immense war efforts and sacrifices endured by Serbia. ...
Apis’s Men: The Black Hand Conspirators after the Great War
(Beograd : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2015)
The activities of Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis and his clandestine Black Hand organisation in Serbia have long been scrutinised in connection with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in ...
Imagining the Serbs. Revisionism in the Recent Historiography of Nineteenth-century Serbian History
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2012)
The end of the Cold War has brought about a complete change of the political and social context in the world. Consequently, history, as a scholarly discipline, has also undergone a significant transformation. In this broader ...
A Difficult and Silent Return. Italian Exiles from Dalmatia and Yugoslav Zadar/Zara after the Second World War
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2016)
The aim of this essay is to offer a brief analysis of the political activity of the Italian exiles from Dalmatia after the Second World War and their relations with their motherland and their hometown of Zadar/Zara. Their ...
Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the Resistance Movements in Yugoslavia, 1941
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, 2019)
During the Second World War a brutal and distinctly complex war was fought in Yugoslavia. It was a mixture of an anti-fascist struggle for liberation as well as an ideological, civil, inter–ethnic and religious war, which ...
The Serbian Minister in London, Mateja Bošković, the Yugoslav Committee, and Serbia's Yugoslav Policy in the Great War, 1914-1916
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, 2019)
This paper seeks to examine the outlook of the Serbian Minister in London,
Mateja Mata Bošković, during the first half of the Great War on the South Slav (Yugoslav)
question – a unification of all the Serbs, Croats and ...
Creating a Communist Yugoslavia in the Second World War
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2017)
The Second World War involved the conflict of three different ideologies - democracy, fascism and communism - an aspect in which it was different from the Great War. This ideological triangle led to various shifts in the ...
The Port of Salonica in Yugoslav Foreign Policy 1919–1941
(Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2012)
This paper explores the importance of the Greek port of Salonica (Thessaloniki) for Yugoslav foreign policy-makers during the interwar period. It suggests that, apart from economic interests, namely securing trade facilities ...