U Makijavelijevom teatru: priče sa pozornice političkog [In Machiavelli’s Theatre: Stories from the Stage of the Political] is a theoretically grounded and essayistically articulated study of the relationship between order and freedom. The book examines the emergence, duration, and transformation of political communities, analyzing their institutional forms, historical variations, and internal tensions. At its core lies the thesis that the political rests upon a persistent dynamic between the living substance of a community and the normative form that shapes and structures it.

Bojan Kovačević is a Full Professor at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. As a scholarship holder of the Government of the Swiss Confederation, he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled “Federal Features of the EU Governing System” at at the Institute for Federalism of the University of Fribourg. The three previous monographs he has published are Mesto i uloga regiona u političkom i ekonomskom sistemu Evropske unije [The Place and Role of Regions in the Political and Economic System of the European Union] (2009), Skriveni federalizam: federalističko iskustvo u procesima evropskih integracija [Hidden Federalism: Federalist Experience in the Processes of European Integration] (2013), and Europe’s Hidden Federalism: Federal Experiences of European Integration (2017). He has also served as a visiting professor at several European universities.

Seminar participants: Michal Sládeček (IFDT), Sara Dragišić (IFDT), Vukan Marković (IFDT), Srđan Prodanović (IFDT), Natascha Schmelz (IFDT), Petar Bojanić (IFDT), and the author of the book.