Dejan Jović

Dejan Jović was born in Samobor, a town in the Zagreb County, on 12 April 1968 during the time of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. In an interview he described himself as both Croat and Serb, acknowledging that such complex self-determination may cause shock among some members of both communities who are used to totalitarian nationalism and are unaccustomed to the liberal identity approach.{{cite web|url=http://www.autograf.hr/dejan-jovic-ja-sam-i-srbin-i-hrvat/ |title=Dejan Jović: "Ja sam i Srbin i Hrvat" |publisher=Autograf |access-date=1 May 2018}}

Dejan Jović completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in 1990, master level studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and, the University of Manchester in England in 1994 and Ph.D. studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1999. At the LSE Jović defended his doctoral thesis under the title [http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1545/ The Breakdown of Elite Ideological Consensus: The Prelude to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia (1974–1990)]{{cite thesis|last=Jovic|first=Dejan|date=1999|title=The breakdown of elite ideological consensus: The prelude to the disintegration of Yugoslavia (1974-1990).|type=PhD|publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1545/|access-date=28 June 2021}} under the primary supervision of Chris Binns and with the support of the Overseas Research Support Grant, the LSE Graduate Scholarship, and the Open Society Fund Grant.{{cite thesis |last=Jović |first=Dejan |date=1999 |title=The breakdown of elite ideological consensus: The prelude to the disintegration of Yugoslavia (1974-1990). |type=PhD |publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science |url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1545 |access-date=30 April 2020}}

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Dejan Jović has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a lecturer at the Scottish University of Stirling.{{cite web |url=https://tkojetko.irb.hr/en/znanstvenikDetalji.php?sifznan=9069&podaci=biografija |title=Dejan Jović - Biography |publisher=Who is Who in Croatian Science |access-date=1 May 2018 |archive-date=1 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501160621/https://tkojetko.irb.hr/en/znanstvenikDetalji.php?sifznan=9069&podaci=biografija |url-status=dead }} At the University of Stirling Jović was founder and director of the Centre for European Neighborhood Studies. Since 2015 he is guest professor at the University of Belgrade. Dejan Jović is the main editor of the Croatian Political Science Review journal since 2013. According to SCImago Journal Rank the Croatian Political Science Review was Q1 best quartile journal in the field of History in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=23425&tip=sid&clean=0 |title=Politička misao |publisher=SCImago Journal Rank |access-date=25 April 2020}} It was the sixth highest ranked political science and international relations journal in the entire Eastern Europe and 257th internationally among 503 ranked journals.{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3320&country=Eastern%20Europe |title=Journal ranking Eastern Europe |publisher=SCImago Journal Rank |access-date=25 April 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=3320&page=6&total_size=503 |title=Journal ranking |publisher=SCImago Journal Rank |access-date=25 April 2020}} In the field of History it was 10th among 109 ranked journals in Eastern Europe and 278th among 1217 ranked journals internationally.{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1202&country=Eastern%20Europe |title=History Journal ranking Eastern Europe |publisher=SCImago Journal Rank |access-date=25 April 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1202&page=6&total_size=1217 |title=Journal History ranking |publisher=SCImago Journal Rank |access-date=25 April 2020}}

• Uvod u Jugoslaviju (English: Introduction to Yugoslavia). Zaprešić: Fraktura; Srpsko kulturno društvo Prosvjeta, 2023.
• Rat i mit: Politika identiteta u suvremenoj Hrvatskoj (English: War and Myth: The Politics of Identity in Contemporary Croatia). Zaprešić: Fraktura. 2017.
• Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away. West Lafayette, Indiana, United States: Purdue University Press. 2009.
• Jugoslavija - država koja je odumrla (English: Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away). Zagreb & Belgrade: Prometej & Samizdat B92. 2003.
• Причините за распаѓањето на СФРЈ (English:Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Causes and Interpretations). Skopje: Templum. 2003.

{{cite web|url=https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/profil/14669 |title=Hrvatska znanstvena bibliografija: Dejan Jović |publisher=Hrvatska znanstvena bibliografija |access-date=25 April 2020}}

• Marksističke teorije međunarodnih odnosa (English: Marxist Theories of International Relations). Zagreb: Faculty of Political Science. 2018.
• Konstruktivističke teorije međunarodnih odnosa (English: Constructivist Theories of International Relations). Zagreb: Faculty of Political Science. 2016.
• Liberalne teorije međunarodnih odnosa (English: Liberal Theories of International Relations). Zagreb: Političke analize & Faculty of Political Science. 2014.
• Teorije međunarodnih odnosa: Realizam (English: Theories of International Relations: Realism). Zagreb: Politička kultura. 2013.
• Slobodan Milošević: put ka vlasti (English: Slobodan Milošević: Road to Power). Belgrade & Stirling: Institute for Contemporary History & Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies. 2008.

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Jović was special advisor at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs between 2004 and 2006. In the period between 2010 and 2014 Jović was the main political analyst for the President of Croatia Ivo Josipović. In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.{{cite web|last=Derk|first=Denis|title=Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca|trans-title=A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear|language=sh|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142|newspaper=Večernji list|pages=6–7|location=Zagreb|issn=0350-5006|date=28 March 2017|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920235101/https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/deklaracija-o-zajednickom-jeziku-iz-zagreba-donosi-se-30-ozujka-u-sarajevu-1159142|url-status=live|access-date=5 June 2019}}

File:Independent Democratic Serb Party 2019 European Parliament Election.png?" jumbo poster in Vukovar with added graffiti stating "To be above the law".]]

In 2019, Jović was on the election list of the Independent Democratic Serb Party for the 2019 European Parliament election in Croatia.{{Cite news |url=https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Croatia/Dejan-Jovic-an-alarm-call-for-Croatian-society-195196|title=Dejan Jović, an alarm call for Croatian society |last=Vale |first=Giovanni |date=24 June 2019 |access-date=25 April 2020 |publisher=Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa |location=Trento, Italy}} In an interview for Italian Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa he explain his motivation to run as a non-party candidate on SDSS list by "desire to influence European politics" particularly related to Western Balkan integrations, academic duty to take active part in political life and to "express my solidarity with the Serbian community, not so much because of ethnicity, but because I think that the Serbian community is a trait of Croatia as a country". Jović was second on the list, just behind party leader Milorad Pupovac.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/serbian/cyr/balkan-48371240|title=Интервју петком - Дејан Јовић: "Поставили смо огледало пред лице и савест људи" |last=Miladinović |first=Aleksandar |date=24 May 2019 |access-date=25 April 2020 |publisher=BBC }} Campaign was marked by SDSS jumbo posters with inscription "Do you know how it is to be a Serb in Croatia?" in which the word 'Serb' was written in Serbian Cyrillic. As it was expected by campaign leaders jumbo posters were target of widespread nationalist vandalism and destruction which underlined the issue of ethnic intolerance and discrimination. The party did not manage to reach 5% threshold to enter the European Parliament and instead received 28,597 votes or 2.66% yet some commentators perceived campaign as an important public relations success and results as expected.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegram.hr/politika-kriminal/sdss-naravno-nema-nikakve-sanse-na-eu-izborima-ali-treba-priznati-kampanja-im-je-marketinski-super/|title=SDSS naravno nema nikakve šanse na EU izborima, ali treba priznati, kampanja im je marketinški super |last=Klarić |first=Jasmin |date=10 May 2019 |access-date=25 April 2020 |publisher=Telegram.hr }}

Dejan Jović and his book Jugoslavija – država koja je odumrla (Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away), published in 2003, were heavily criticized by the Serbian historian and professor of history at University of Belgrade {{ill|Olivera Milosavljević|sr}} in reviews and articles published by now inactive Serbian weekly magazine Republika where she claimed that the book contains numerous falsehoods, contradictions and un-academic methodology, citing his downplay of the SANU Memorandum and describing an apologetic depiction of Slobodan Milošević, among other things.{{cite web|url=https://pescanik.net/fatalisticko-tumacenje-raspada-jugoslavije/ |author=Olivera Milosavljević |title=Fatalističko tumačenje raspada Jugoslavije |publisher=Peščanik (radio show) |access-date=4 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.republika.co.rs/322-323/33.html |author=Olivera Milosavljević |title=Metodologija proizvodnje "argumenata" |publisher=Republika (Serbian magazine) |access-date=4 August 2021}}

In 2014, when serving as the senior advisor to the President of Croatia, in his book review for the Croatian Political Science Review Jović express approval of the book First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia written by David N. Gibbs and published by the Vanderbilt University Press in 2009.{{Cite news |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/10353|title=First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia |access-date=30 April 2020 |publisher=Project MUSE }} Gibbs' book was criticized by Marko Hoare who accused Gibbs of denying the genocide in Srebrenica, promoting conspiracy theories and eschewing or falsifying sources.{{cite book |author= Marko Hoare |author-link= Marko Hoare |date=2017 |title=Bosnia and Herzegovina : genocide, justice and denial |url=https://greatersurbiton.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/marko-attila-bosnia-text-2-izdanje-print-21-12-2017.pdf |publisher=Center for Advanced Studies: Sarajevo |isbn=978-9958-022-57-9 }} Jović's positive review of the book caused the North American Congress of Bosniaks of "silently denying Serbian aggression and genocide".{{Cite news |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/kongres-bosnjaka-proziva-josipoviceva-savjetnika-dejana-jovica-916016 |title=Kongres Bošnjaka proziva Josipovićeva savjetnika Dejana Jovića |author=n.a. |date=20 January 2014 |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Večernji list }} Hoare previously criticized Jović's own book Slobodan Milošević's Place in Serbian History, accusing the author of being an apologist of Slobodan Milošević and the Yugoslav People's Army during the war in the 1990s.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/savjetnik-predsjednika-josipovica-podrzava-teze-iz-velikosrpskog-pamfleta-918181 |title='Savjetnik predsjednika Josipovića podržava teze iz velikosrpskog pamfleta' |author=Ivica Kristović |date=30 January 2014 |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Večernji list }}{{Cite news |url=https://greatersurbiton.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/dejan-jovic-on-slobodan-milosevic/ |title=Dejan Jovic on Slobodan Milosevic |author=Marko Hoare |date=n.d. |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=WordPress blog }} Jović responded by stating that the accusations are "completely tendentious and incorrect, and the campaign itself has political rather than academic motives", he also defended Gibbs by claiming he had never denied genocide in Srebrenica, that he is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Arizona whose book had a number of positive reviews in academic journals, and that the same people who are now accusing him as a genocide denier for a book review have previously accused many others of the same, including the Washington Times and The Guardian.{{Cite news |url=http://www.autograf.hr/odgovor-dejana-jovica/|title=Odgovor Dejana Jovića |last=Jović |first=Dejan |date=21 January 2014 |access-date=29 June 2018 |publisher=Autograf }} His claims were, however, disputed by Hoare in a subsequent response to his response which stated: "It is dangerous to both Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegovina for someone holding such views, and with such poor analytical judgement and grasp of reality, to occupy the position that he does."{{Cite news |url=https://www.tacno.net/novosti/hoare-jovic-i-gibbs-nastoje-minimalizirati-krivnju-srpskih-agresora-za-rat-1990-i-prebaciti-krivnju-sto-vise-na-hrvatske-i-bosnjacke-zrtve-rata/ |title=Hoare: "Jović i Gibbs nastoje minimalizirati krivnju srpskih agresora za rat 1990. i prebaciti krivnju što više na hrvatske i bošnjačke žrtve rata" |author=n.a. |date=3 February 2014 |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Tačno.net }}

During the same year, Jović was sacked from his political advisory position by president Ivo Josipović after he claimed in his [http://politickamisao.com/samo-u-mitovima-svaki-narod-zeli-drzavu-u-stvarnosti-ne/ article] that 1991 Croatian independence referendum was "very non-liberal. Maybe they were 'democratic' if by 'democracy' we mean only the determination of those who have more and who less [votes]. But they were certainly not liberal"{{Cite news |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2014/10/03/croatian-president-lays-off-chief-analyst-1/|title=Croatian Adviser Axed for Querying Independence Vote |last=Milekić |first=Sven |date=3 October 2014 |access-date=27 April 2020 |publisher=Balkan Insight }} and that it can not be compared with Scottish independence referendum arguing that, unlike the Croatian one, every opinion was considered legitimate and was equally present in public debate. This statement was described by president Josipović as "harmful and wrong" who expressed his opinion on incomparability of situation in Croatia (Yugoslav crisis) and Scotland (established democracy) at the time of two referendums.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/josipovic-smijenio-svog-savjetnika-dejana-jovica-964717 |title=Josipović smijenio savjetnika Dejana Jovića: 'Štetna i pogrešna izjava' |author=n.a. |date=2 October 2014 |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Večernji list }} President sacked Jović quoting differences of opinion shortly before the 2014–15 Croatian presidential election, while politicians from major opposition right-wing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) expressed opinion that he was sacked because his opinions were damaging Josipović's re-election prospects.{{Cite news |url=http://hr.n1info.com/Vijesti/a2307/HDZ-Josipovic-je-smijenio-Jovica-jer-mu-steti-u-kampanji.html |title=HDZ: Josipović je smijenio Jovića jer mu šteti u kampanji |date=2 October 2014 |access-date=27 April 2020 |publisher=N1 (TV channel) }}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The left-leaning British political website OpenDemocracy opined that sacking of Jović was the result of "(re)establishment of a certain dogmatism in interpreting or discussing about the past".{{Cite news |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/ljubica-spaskovska/%E2%80%98death-to-fascism-freedom-to-expression%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-postyugoslav-media- |title='Death to fascism, freedom to expression!' – the post-Yugoslav media and freedom of speech |last=Spasovska |first=Ljubica |date=28 October 2014 |access-date=29 June 2018 |publisher=openDemocracy }} Balkan Insight described Jović's statements as "highly controversial", and cited denunciations by some politicians from both Social Democratic Party (SDP) and HDZ, while 24sata columnist Tomislav Klauški criticised Josipović's move instead and asked if it is possible to comment meaningfully and non-passionately the independence referendum 23 years after it took place.

Former professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a consultant for the Bosnian Institute, Ivo Banac, described Jović as an "ordinary falsifier of history", while in the same interview political analyst Žarko Puhovski commended Jović's argumentation as better than average in Croatian scientific community.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/hrvatsko-proljece-drzao-je-manjinskom-manifestacijom-925792 |title=Hrvatsko proljeće držao je manjinskom manifestacijom |author=Tomislav Krasnec |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Večernji list }}

In 2017, a docent at the Faculty of Political Sciences in the University of Zagreb, Krešimir Petković, filed a request for Jović to be removed from the editorial board of Croatian Political Science Review, accusing him of "giving academic legitimacy to forgeries" and the "absence of academic procedures of fact checking" following the publication of [https://hrcak.srce.hr/190336 an article] on Croatia–Slovenia border disputes by German political scientist and European People's Party spokesman Thomas Bickl.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/dejan-jovic-ne-postuje-pravila-objave-akademskih-tekstova-1214973 |title='Dejan Jović ne poštuje pravila objave akademskih tekstova' |author=Tomislav Krasnec |date=19 December 2017 |access-date=4 August 2021 |publisher=Večernji list }} Petković claimed that the article was uncritical towards the Drnovšek–Račan agreement and that without evidence Bickl ascribed agreement's failure to Croatian traumatic experience in the period of the Croatian War of Independence. Petković ultimately resigned from the position of one of the reviewers for the journal.

In 2021, following Jović's statements on Twitter,{{Cite tweet |author= Dejan Jović |author-link= |user=DejanFpzg |number= 1376080100697985024|date=28 March 2021 |title=Croatian President Milanović used the word "dirty" to describe the leader of Croatian Serbs, Milorad Pupovac. In December last year he caused a controversy over his statement on Bosnia: "soap before parfume", which was seen by some as cultural racism... |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |location= |access-date=31 May 2021 |ref=}} in which he described President Zoran Milanović's remarks towards Bosnia and Herzegovina and Milorad Pupovac as "cultural racism", he was subsequently described by Milanović as a "Kumrovec undertail" in a Facebook post on his official profile.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegram.hr/politika-kriminal/milanovic-objasnio-zasto-je-prozvao-dejana-jovica-kaze-da-ga-je-prljavo-denuncirao-na-twitteru/ |title=Milanović objasnio zašto je prozvao Dejana Jovića. Kaže da ga je 'prljavo denuncirao' na Twitteru |date=28 March 2021 |access-date=31 May 2021 |publisher=Telegram.hr }} In his Facebook response, Milanović criticized Jović for publishing his post in English, berated his scholarly credibility and electoral legitimacy of Milorad Pupovac, stated that a Croat from Vojvodina would never dare to speak like Jović and described Belgrade as a bazaar.

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