Full Professor
Faculty of Political Science University of Zagreb
Address: Ul. Lepušićeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Email: dejan.jovic@fpzg.hr

Dejan Jović is Professor of Political Science/International Relations at University of Zagreb and Visiting Professor at University of Belgrade. He obtained his PhD from London School of Economics in 1999 and worked as Lecturer in Politics at University of Stirling (2000-2010), where he founded and chaired Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies (CENS). He was Jean Monnet Fellow at European University Institute in Florence in 2000 and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths’ University of London in 2017. He is President of the Managing Board of the Foreign Policy Forum, a think-tank he co-founded in Zagreb. He is also a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and member of the Reflection Board of Balkans in Europe Advisory Group.

Professor Jović is author of “Yugoslavia: a State that Withered Away” (Purdue University Press, 2009), “War and Myth: Politics of Identity in Contemporary Croatia” (Fraktura, 2017), “An Introduction to Yugoslavia” (Fraktura, 2023 and Akademska knjiga 2024) and “Resistance by Intellectuals: Representing the Unrepresented – Opposing the Powerful” (Akademska knjiga and Fraktura, 2025). He edited several books in the area of theory of international relations and contemporary history of Western Balkans. He was Editor-in-Chief of Croatian Political Science Review (2012-2020) and is currently editor of Tragovi (Footprints): a journal for Serbian and Croatian Issues. He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (formerly: Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans) and one of editors of the Southeast Europe book series Critical approaches to Southeast Europe at Central European University Press.

Dejan Jović was Chief Political Analyst in the Office of President of Croatia (2010-2014) and president of the Managing Board of Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) in Zagreb (2014-2016).

Professor Jović teaches courses in Politics and Society in Southeast Europe, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations, Croatian Foreign Policy and Theories of International Relations. His main area of expertise is post-Yugoslav countries, its politics and history.

Complete bibliography: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/8569