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About Dejan Djokic

Dejan Djokic is lecturer in history at Goldsmiths College, London. He is the author of Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia (C Hurst, 2007).

Articles by Dejan Djokic

Friday 26th June

Versailles and Yugoslavia: ninety years on

Dejan Djokic, 26 June 2009
The date was fateful: 28 June 1919. The baptism was tough. The outcome: a multinational state
Tuesday 22nd July

Radovan Karadzic’s capture: a moment for history

Dejan Djokic, 22 July 2008
The seizure of a leading war-crimes suspect may help lift the burdens of the past in the region
Tuesday 27th May

A democracy of suspicion

Dejan Djokic, 27 May 2008
A university colleague's arrest over downloaded research materials reflects a climate of fear
Wednesday 20th February

Desimir Tosic (1920-2008): in memoriam

Dejan Djokic, 20 February 2008
A venerable Serbian politician and historian embodied the best of his country
Thursday 13th March

The assassination of Zoran Djindjic

Dejan Djokic, 13 March 2003
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.
Thursday 6th March

A conflict of loyalties: 1999 and 2003

Dejan Djokic, 6 March 2003
When Nato bombed Yugoslavia in 1999, professional responsibility and a need for inner freedom prevented Dejan Djokic from protesting the assault on his homeland. Four years on, the creative dialogue between head and heart has a different result. 
Tuesday 17th September

Serbian presidential elections

Dejan Djokic, 17 September 2002
For the first time since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbs will vote, in presidential elections on 29 September. The two main candidates represent the full integration into international institutions and radical economic reforms, proposed by Miroljub Labus and the prime minister Djindjic; or a more cautious transition favoured by Vojislav Kostunica.
Tuesday 6th August

Ex-Yu rock

Dejan Djokic, 6 August 2002
Rock music remained a vibrant and pan-Yugoslav force even up to the country’s fragmentation in the 1990s. To remember the idols and trends of those decades is not just an act of affection, but a reminder of the bonding and healing power of music.
Thursday 30th May

Serbia: monarchy and national identity

Dejan Djokic, 30 May 2002
Political change in Serbia includes the revival of monarchist ideas. But the version of Serbian history they entail is contested.
Wednesday 10th April

A farewell to Yugoslavia

Dejan Djokic, 10 April 2002
An EU-brokered agreement has at last consigned the name of Yugoslavia to history. Its disappearance is a story of personal loss as well as political tragedy. One of its children bids a dignified farewell – and asks what will remain of a noble idea.
Wednesday 17th October

Serbia: one year after the October revolution

Dejan Djokic, 17 October 2001
The toppling of the Milosevic regime in Serbia was a historic turning-point for ex-Yugoslavia after a decade of war and destruction. One year on, how are the Serbs, and their new government, coping with change?
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