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Collections of papers Bicentenary of Moderns Serbian Diplomacy (eds. Č. Popov, D. R. Živojinović and S. G. Markovich) has been published
During the course of 2011 the bicentenary of the establishment of the first Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was marked. On that occasion, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia organised three events entitled „yesterday, today, tomorrow.“ The first meeting („yesterday“) was held on May 7, 2011 in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia. It was a scholarly conference with participation of Serbian historians dealing with foreign policy of Serbia and Yugoslavia and distinguished former diplomats of Yugoslavia and Serbia. As a result a thematic collection of papers that was initiated at the conference has been published. The collection of papers contains seventeen scholarly papers of historians dealing with history and foreign policy of the Principality and Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Communist Yugoslavia. The Collection has been edited by Čedomir Popov, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Dragoljub R. Živojinović, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Prof. Slobodan G. Markovich.
The collection The Bicentenary of Modern Serbian Diplomacy opens some complex topics from diplomatic history of Serbia and Yugoslavia. It is divided in five sections. The first part deals with emergence and development of Serbian diplomacy till 1918, the second refers to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the third to Communist Yugoslavia, the fourth to dilemmas of Serbian and Yugoslav historiographies, and the fifth to the Kosovo Question at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Most of papers contain in footnotes very detailed references to bibliography and Serbian/Yugoslav and foreign archival sources and therefore they enable an interested reader to continue himself/herself research of particular topics from Serbian and Yugoslav diplomacies. The collection offers an overview of accomplishments and failures of Serbian and Yugoslav diplomacies. It also singles out numerous open questions that have not been sufficiently analysed. Contributions in appendixes provide illustrative, cartographic and documentary notes to papers and studies in the volume.