Dejan Jović (; born 12 April 1968) is a political scientist from Croatia. He is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. From 2012 to 2020, Jović was editor-in-chief of the Croatian Political Science Review, one of the leading academic journals of political science and social science in Southeast Europe. He is also one of the founders and editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed journal Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics published by the Serb National Council and the Archive of Serbs in Croatia.
Dejan Jović is a specialist in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav politics as well as foreign policies and theories of international relations. On 21 May 2021, Jović was elected as a new member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Class V: Social Sciences, Law, and Economics. In late May of the same year, Jović founded the Foreign Policy Forum in Zagreb together with Vesna Pusić, Budimir Lončar, Tvrtko Jakovina and others. The new think tank was officially registered on 4 June with Jović as the chairman of the board.
Biography
Early life
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.
Education
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 The Breakdown of Elite Ideological Consensus: The Prelude to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia (1974–1990) 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.
Academic career
Dejan Jović has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a lecturer at the Scottish University of Stirling. 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. It was the sixth highest ranked political science and international relations journal in the entire Eastern Europe and 257th internationally among 503 ranked journals. In the field of History it was 10th among 109 ranked journals in Eastern Europe and 278th among 1217 ranked journals internationally.
Publications
Books
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.
Edited books
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.