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This lecture examines the enduring imprint of war on electoral politics in Southeast Europe, summing up insights from the ERC-funded research project ELWar and more than five years of fieldwork, archival research, and quantitative analysis. The lecture will explore how political actors mobilize historical narratives and collective memories of conflict to structure competition, consolidate support, and marginalize rivals. Far from fading with time, war memories are routinely reactivated in campaigns, shaping voter alignments and polarizing political arenas. By tracing patterns across this region, this research challenges conventional theories that prioritize economic performance or institutional design, demonstrating instead how the past persists as a potent electoral resource. In unpacking the political afterlife of war, the lecture offers a broader reflection on the fragility of democratic contestation in post-conflict settings and the deep roots of political division.<br><br>The Web Lecture Series \u201cTransregional Histories of the Yugoslav Wars\u201d is part of the research project \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/aktuelles\/themen\/reordering-yugoslavia-rethinking-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reordering Yugoslavia, Rethinking Europe<\/a>\u201d, which is organized by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History together with the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies.<br><br><strong>LOCATION<\/strong><br>You are invited to join the lecture and discussion via <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/92563310021?pwd=YgH1DxbdT4L1AJGhqGZSTJwQXv4Y2L.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zoom<\/a>.<br>Meeting-ID: 925 6331 0021<br>Kenncode: 430789<br><br><strong>REGISTRATION<\/strong><br>No pre-registration is required for participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/veranstaltungen\/veranstaltungen\/termin\/the-afterlife-of-war-history-memory-and-electoral-competition-in-southeast-europe\">https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/veranstaltungen\/veranstaltungen\/termin\/the-afterlife-of-war-history-memory-and-electoral-competition-in-southeast-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46323","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\/2025\/01\/Bundeswehrsoldaten-der-SFOR-Friedenstruppe-in-der-Innenstadt-von-Sarajevo.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54337,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54337","url_meta":{"origin":46323,"position":0},"title":"Online-Lecture by Sophie Momzikoff: The Yugoslav Crisis and the Russian Place in the New European Architecture","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"26. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"01.07.2026 16:00 Uhr The aim of this presentation is to show how the Yugoslav crisis served as a test for Russia\u2019s place in the post-Cold War European order. 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