Žarković Petar

Petar Žarković, historian, is Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. He received his PhD at the department of history of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, titled “Marko Nikezic and The Foreign Policy of Yugoslavia (1952-1972)”. His fields of scientific research are political and social history of socialist Yugoslavia 1945-1991, Yugoslavia and the Cold War, and intellectual history. Within the Institute, he is a member of the Research Laboratory of Socialism and (Post)Yugoslav Studies (YugoLab).

Latest publications

  • Žarković, P. Bešlin, M. (2021), “Serbian Liberals and the Croatian Spring: Croatian-Serbian Relations and New Concepts of Yugoslavia in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s”, Journal of Contemporary History (3), 791-821. (published in Serbian).
  • Žarković P. (2021), “The collapse of the Yugoslav idea and the defeat of the intellectual”, in: “Yugoslavia in the 1990s: Ideologies, contexts, historiographical interpretations”, Association for Modern History, Sarajevo, 2021. p. 111-119. (published in Serbian).
  • Žarković P. Bešlin, M. (2022), “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, ur. Haris Dajč, Isidora Jarić, Ljiljana Dobrovšak, Zagreb, 2022, 77-90.
  • Žarković P., Bešlin, M. (2022), „Yugoslavia and De Gaulle’s revision of the Cold War“, Istraživanja 33, 153-173.
  • Žarković P. Bešlin, M., Milošević, S., (2022) „The Third Road Policy: Eurocommunism and its Yugoslav Assessment“, Filozofija i društvo 33, 1037-1054 (koaut, Milivoj Bešlin i Srđan Milošević).