Dejan Djokic is lecturer in history and director of the Centre for the Study of the Balkans at Goldsmiths College, London. He was formerly lecturer in Serbian and Croatian studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the editor of Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea (C Hurst, 2003 and University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), and author of Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia (C Hurst, 2007). His forthcoming publications are Pasic and Trumbic: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Haus, 2010) and (as co-editor) New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies (Routledge, 2010)  

Recent articles

From the Kosovo battle of 1389 to the Sarajevo assassination of 1914 to the wars of the 1990s, there is no more potent date in modern Serbian and even European history than "28 June". The series extends to the formation of Yugoslavia itself, baptised in the Versailles peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. Dejan Djokic recalls the difficult origin of a once-hopeful state.

The seizure of one of the two most wanted fugitives from the wars of fomer-Yugoslavia may become part of a process that lifts the burdens of the past in the region, says Dejan Djokic.

The arrest of a former university colleague for downloading research materials reflects a spreading climate of fear, says Dejan Djokic.

A venerable Serbian politician and historian embodied the best of his country, writes Dejan Djokic.

The murder of Serbia’s prime minister has created a dangerous political vacuum in a country still trying to recover from a decade of war, poverty, and unrest. Dejan Djokic laments a tragedy, puts it in historical context, and assesses the likelihood of Serbian democracy coming together to challenge the gangsters threatening it.