Senior Research Fellow 

milivoj.beslin@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

CURRICULUM VITAE

Bešlin Milivoj

Milivoj Bešlin is a historian and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. In 2017-2018, he served as a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Montenegro. He has published a two-volume monograph, entitled Ideas of Modern Serbia in Socialist Yugoslavia, as well as numerous professional studies, articles, discussions, and reports in both domestic and international scientific journals and anthologies. Furthermore, he has compiled and edited seven collections of works and has participated in numerous regional and international scientific gatherings and conferences. He has also contributed to the realization of fourteen scientific projects. Additionally, Bešlin is the founder and coordinator of the Research Laboratory of Socialism and (Post)Yugoslav Studies (YugoLab) at IFDT. In his research, he has explored various topics such as the political and social history of socialist Yugoslavia, nationalism studies, modernization theory, attempts at reform in socialist Yugoslavia, the fundamental elements of Yugoslav federalism, Serbian-Croatian relations in the 20th century, the issue of anti-fascism and historical revisionism, and the matter of intellectual engagement and nationalism, among others.

Latest publications

  • Milivoj Bešlin, Ideja moderne Srbije u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji, knjiga 1, Akademska knjiga – IFDT, Novi Sad – Beograd, 2022, p. 546.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, “Faded scratches in marble”: Federal b/ordering of socialist
    Yugoslavia”, in: Boundaries and Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Space. A European Experience, ed. Nenad Stefanov, Srđan Radović, De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2021, p. 27‒50.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, „‘Discovering’ Yugoslavia in Post-socialism: The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Limits to Researching an Unusual Historical Creation“, in: Researching Yugoslavia and Its Aftermath: Sources, Prejudices and Alternative Solutions, ed. Branislav Radeljić i Carlos Gonzalez-Villa, Springer, Cham, 2021, p. 133‒154.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, “Yugoslavya Devleti’nde Voyvodina: İnkârdan Tarihsel Gerçekliğe (1918 – 1991)”, in: Eski Yugoslavya Cumhuriyetlerinden Akademisyenlerin Makaleleriyle YUGOSLAVYA 1918 – 1991, ed. Hakan Demir, Nobel, Ankara, 2021, p. 271-286.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković, “Srpski liberali i Hrvatsko proljeće: Hrvatsko-srpski odnosi i novi koncepti Jugoslavije krajem 1960-ih i početkom 1970-ih”, Časopis za suvremenu povijest, Vol. 53, No. 3 (2021), p. 791‒821.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, „Građanski i komunistički liberali u Srbiji o Bosni i Hercegovini“, in: Adil Zulfikarpašić i liberalne političke inicijative, ed. Safet Bandžović, Bošnjački institut, Sarajevo, 2021, p. 109‒127.
  • Husnija Kamberović, Milivoj Bešlin, Aleksandar R. Miletić, Adnan Prekić, “Odnosi jugoslovenskih republika i pokrajina”, in: Jugoslavija: Poglavlje 1980‒1991, Latinka Perović, Beograd, 2021, p. 311–373.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, Gazela Pudar Draško, and Balša Delibašić, “Aporias and Contradictions of the (Post-)Yugoslav Left: Orthodoxy in a Praxis Way”, Contradictions V (2021), p. 107-120.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, „Muslimanske rezolucije 1941. i konstituisanje državnosti Bosne i Hercegovine u antifašističkoj Jugoslaviji“, in: Vrijeme i pamćenje. Muslimanske rezolucije 1941, ed. Safet Bandžović, Sarajevo, 2021, p. 97–123.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, “Odnosi Srbije i Vojvodine u poslednjoj deceniji Jugoslavije”, in: Ideje o transformaciji Jugoslavije 1990-ih godina, ed. Husnija Kamberović, Sarajevo, 2021, p. 51-64.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković, “The Continuity of Populism in Serbia: From the 19th to the 21st century”, in: Contemporary Populism and its Political Consequences: Discourses and Practicies in Central and South-Eastern Europe, ed. Haris Dajč, Isidora Jarić, Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Zagreb, 2022, p. 77-90.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, Petar Žarković, Srđan Milošević, “The Third Road Policy: Eurocommunism and Its Yugoslav Assessment”, Philosophy and Society 33 (4), 2022, p. 1037–1054.
  • Milivoj Bešlin, “Identiteti na razmeđu: Vojvodina između Srbije i Jugoslavije”, in: Identitetska pitanja u Vojvodini u svetlu predstojećeg popisa stanovništva, ed. Lazar Lazić, Novi Sad, 2022, p. 39‒55.
  • Petar Žarković, Milivoj Bešlin, “Yugoslavia and De Gaulle’s Revision of the Cold War”, Istraživanja – Journal of Historical Researches, 33, 2022, p. 153–173.