History of Political Ideas and Institutions in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th Centuries
History of political ideas and institutions in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries
Project Director: Vojislav G. Pavlović, PhD, principal research fellow
Research on the national integration of the Serbian people and its interaction with national movements in the neighborhood during the liberation process and the process of creating civil society institutions is the basis for studying the relations between the Balkan states during regional and world conflicts that shaped the Balkans and Europe in the 20th century. Special attention is given to the circumstances in which the Serbian people were under foreign rule, the process of creating a Yugoslav state, the role of totalitarian regimes and ideologies in the Balkans and to interethnic relations in communist Yugoslavia. The project involves a comparative historical study of the development of political principles, systems and institutions among the Balkan peoples during the last two centuries of the history of Southeast Europe. The currents of influence of Western European political ideas and institutions, their gradual adoption in the process of overall emancipation of the Balkan peoples on the way to the European model, are examined. In addition to Serbia, the research covers Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Northern Macedonia and Turkey.
Project members:
Vojislav G. Pavlović, PhD, principal research fellow, field of research: international relations in the 20th century, history of the Yugoslav space, history of the Balkans.
Boris Milosavljević, PhD, senior research associate, field of research: history of political ideas and institutions in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, political theory, political and social history, history of Serbian philosophy, theory of state, historiography, political and legal philosophy.
Dragan Bakić, PhD, senior research associate, field of research: history of Serbia, Yugoslavia and the Balkans in the era of world wars, especially diplomacy, foreign policy, international relations and security; British foreign policy towards Danube Europe.
Dušan Fundić, PhD, research associate, field of research: foreign policy of Austria-Hungary, Albanian and Serbian history of the 19th and 20th centuries, studies of nationalism.
Milosav Z. Đoković, PhD, research assistant, field of research: church history of the Serbian Church and other local Orthodox churches, Catholic churches, history of Serbia in the 19th and 20th centuries, Vatican-Serbian / Yugoslav relations.
Igor Vukadinović, PhD, research assistant, field of research: contemporary national history, history of Yugoslavia and contemporary history of Kosovo and Metohija.
Miloš Vojinović, PhD, research assistant, history of science, history of the Balkans, global history.
Anja Nikolić, MA, research assistant, field of research: Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian rule, imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, comparative history, history of ideas.
Rastko Lompar, MA, research assistant, field of research: history of fascism, fascism in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, history of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Yugoslav-German relations, anti-communism.
Konstantin Dragaš, MA, research assistant, field of research: history of diplomatic relations between Serbia and Italy; Serbian-Italian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries; Italian irredentism; comparative history of the ideology of political parties in the Balkans 1870–1918.