Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Jasna Dragovic-Soso BA, DES, DEA, PhD

Biographical Information

I joined the department in 2004. I received my BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (USA), my Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in Soviet and East European Studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and my Diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. From 2000 to 2004 I was a Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies/UCL, working on a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Teaching

I co-teach the first year undergraduate 'World Politics' course and the third year half-unit on 'Nationalist Conflict and International Intervention'. I also teach the MA course on 'Memory and Justice in Post-Conflict Societies'.

Areas of supervision

East-Central and South-East European history and politics, the role of intellectuals and culture in politics, nationalist conflict and state disintegration, international intervention, transitional justice and the social construction of memory.

Research interests

My research has encompassed several broad areas of international relations: nationalism and the role of intellectuals and culture, state disintegration, nationalist (‘ethnic’) conflict and international intervention. It has been shaped both by an interdisciplinary approach and an area studies focus (on the former Yugoslavia and its successor states). I am particularly interested in the interconnectedness between the international and the domestic levels and my current research focuses on processes of transitional justice, the social construction of memory and ‘coming to terms with the recent past’ in the post-conflict Balkans.

Selected publications

Books

'Saviours of the Nation': Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism. London: Hurst and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2007 (co-edited with Lenard J. Cohen).

Journal articles and book chapters

'Why Did Yugoslavia Disintegrate? An Overview of Contending Explanations', in Lenard J. Cohen and Jasna Dragovic-Soso (eds), State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2007, pp. 1-39.

'Rethinking Yugoslavia: Serbian Intellectuals and the "National Question" in Historical Perspective', Contemporary European History, vol. 13, no. 2, 2004, pp. 170-84.

'The Effect of International Intervention on Domestic Policy Outcomes: Western Coercive Policies and the Milosevic Regime', in Peter Siani-Davies (ed.), International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995. London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 120-35.

'Intellectuals and the Collapse of Yugoslavia: The End of the Yugoslav Writers' Union', in Dejan Djokic (ed.), Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea. London: Hurst, 2003, pp. 268-85.