{"id":30293,"date":"2022-03-07T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=30293"},"modified":"2022-03-07T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:09:12","slug":"what-lessons-from-the-yugoslav-wars-can-we-use-for-ukraine-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=30293","title":{"rendered":"What Lessons From the Yugoslav Wars Can We Use for Ukraine Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 4:00 pm \u2013 5:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin&#8217;s claims of &#8216;genocide&#8217; conducted in Ukraine, view of Russia&#8217;s place in history and the illegitimacy of Ukrainian nationhood remind many scholars of the late-1980s Yugoslavia. In a conversation, Florian Bieber and Lucija Baliki\u0107 will compare the two crises with special regard to Western reactions, treatment of national minorities by their host states and principles of international law applied during these armed conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Join the CEU Democracy Institute and the Review of Democracy to hear more about the comparison between the break-up of USSR and Yugoslavia and putting the current crisis in historical perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The discussion will be streamed live on the Review of Democracy\u2019s Facebook page.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Florian Bieber<\/strong> is a political scientist working on inter-ethnic relations, ethnic conflict and nationalism, focusing on Southeastern Europe. He is a Professor in South East European Studies at the Center for South East European Studies of the University of Graz. Previously, he was a Lecturer in East European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. From January to May 2009, he held the Luigi Einaudi Chair at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and in Spring 2010, he was a visiting fellow at LSEE \u2013 Research on South Eastern Europe at the London School of Economics. He is the editor in chief of Nationalities Papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lucija Baliki\u0107<\/strong> is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, CEU, and an Assistant Editor at Review of Democracy. She is a graduate of University of Zagreb, CEU and was a visiting student at the Department of History at the University of Southampton, UK. Currently, she is also working as a research assistant on the research project &#8220;Neverending Story? Mapping Crisis Discourses in East Central Europe, 1918-2020&#8221; at the CEU Democracy Institute. She researches the body politics in the interwar Yugoslavia, through the prism of the racial science, integral Yugoslavist intellectuals and the Sokol gymnastics movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo used in cover: Flickr \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/peterdenton\/2559584813\">Peter Denton<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.ceu.edu\/2022-03-08\/what-lessons-yugoslav-wars-can-we-use-ukraine-today\">https:\/\/events.ceu.edu\/2022-03-08\/what-lessons-yugoslav-wars-can-we-use-ukraine-today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/748947319391450\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/748947319391450\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rat u Ukrajini \u2013 \u0161ta podsje\u0107a na Jugoslaviju kasnih 1980-ih godina?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=1083\">https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=1083<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CEU-DEM.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52580,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52580","url_meta":{"origin":30293,"position":0},"title":"Conference &#8220;Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 \u2013 present&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"21. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"The conference aims to explore how war-related psychological distress was experienced, narrated, debated and reframed in Yugoslavia in the second half of the twentieth century. 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