Dušan T. Bataković Explained

Dušan T. Bataković
Birth Date:23 April 1957
Birth Place:Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Death Place:Belgrade, Serbia
Occupation:Historian, academic and diplomat
Children:2

Dušan T. Bataković (Serbian: Душан Т. Батаковић; 23 April 1957 – 27 June 2017) was a Serbian historian and diplomat. His specialty was modern and contemporary Serbian and Balkan history as well as French-Serbian relations. The last post he held was that of Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Biography

Bataković graduated with a degree in history from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1982. He earned an M.A. in history from the same institution (1988). He received his Ph.D. in history from the [1] in 1997 with the thesis La France et la formation de la démocratie parlementaire en Serbie 1830–1914 (France and the Formation of Parliamentary Democracy in Serbia, 1830–1914).[2]

Bataković is a specialist for nineteenth- and twentieth-century Balkan history, as well as for the French-Serbian relations. He has written and published extensively on the modern and contemporary history of Serbia, in particular Kosovo and Albania–Serbia relations,[3] focusing on nationalism, and the origins of religious and ethnic strife. Another area of his research is the impact of communism on the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia and the Balkans. Bataković writes in Serbian, English and French and his bibliography includes dozens of historical monographs, edited volumes and more than a hundred articles published in various languages.[4]

Bataković is also the author of the historical TV documentary Crveno doba (The Red Epoch), which aired on Serbia's public broadcaster, RTS, in 2004. Combining testimonies of witnesses with historic narrative the film was the first to open the question of the crimes of the communist Yugoslav authorities (the "red terror") against their political and class enemies in post-World War II Serbia and Montenegro (1944–1947).[5]

In October 2005 Bataković became Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and editor-in-chief of the Institute's annual Balcanica journal as well as of its Special editions. In October 2008 he was elected president of the Serbian Committee of AIESEE (Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Europeen).[6]

In 2010 Bataković was elected fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.[7]

Parallel to his academic life, Bataković also pursued a career in politics and diplomacy. As the president of the Council for Democratic Changes in Serbia (a pro-democracy NGO), he campaigned against Slobodan Milošević. He advocated for cantonisation of Kosovo as the solution to the Kosovo crisis.[8]

in the late 1990s. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) to the Hellenic Republic. In July 2005 he became Advisor for political issues to the President of Serbia Boris Tadić.[9] In that capacity he became a member, in November 2005, of the Serbian negotiating team at the UN-sponsored talks on the future status of the province of Kosovo in Vienna. He was a head of the Serbian Delegation at the International Court of Justice, regarding the advisory opinion on Kosovo status (2009–2011).[10]

Bataković was appointed Ambassador of Serbia to Canada in July 2007 and Ambassador of Serbia in Paris, France in January 2009, where he took office in March 2009 and has completed his mandate in December 2012.[11]

Bataković was reelected Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in February 2013.[12]

Awards and reception

His decorations include:

In 2006, a study by Frederick Anscombe looked at issues surrounding scholarship on Kosovo which noted that in the 1980s and 1990s Dušan Bataković published works written from a nationalist perspective on Kosovo, that gained generous support. Of those were works such as The Kosovo Chronicles (1992) and Kosovo, la spirale de la haine (1993) and in all several of those works have been translated into other languages.[17]

Works

. Dušan T. Bataković. The Kosovo Chronicles. 1992. Belgrade. Plato.

. Dušan T. Bataković. Kosovo, la spirale de la haine: Les faits, les acteurs, l'histoire. 1993. 1.. Lausanne. L'Age d'Homme. 9782825103890.

. Dušan T. Bataković. Kosovo, la spirale de la haine: Les faits, les acteurs, l'histoire. 1998. 2.. Lausanne. L'Age d'Homme. 9782825111321.

. Dušan T. Bataković. The Serbs of Bosnia & Herzegovina: History and Politics. 1996. Paris. Dialogue. 9782911527104.

. Dušan T. Bataković. A Turbulent Decade: The Serbs in Post-1999 Kosovo: Destruction of Cultural Heritage, Ethnic Cleansing, and Marginalization (1999–2009). 2014. Paris. Dialogue. 9782911527128.

. Dušan T. Bataković. Kosovo and Metohija: History, Memory and Identity. The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija: the Historical and Spiritual Heartland of the Serbian People. 2015. Los Angeles. Sebastian Press. 569–608. 9788682685395. https://books.google.com/books?id=8LK2DAEACAAJ.

. Dušan T. Bataković. The Serbs of Kosovo and Metohija 1999–2007: Surviving in Ghetto-like Enclaves. The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija: the Historical and Spiritual Heartland of the Serbian People. 2015. Los Angeles. Sebastian Press. 935–945. 9788682685395. https://books.google.com/books?id=8LK2DAEACAAJ.

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: In memoriam – Dusan T. Batakovic. 2017-06-27. Удружење Краљевина Србија. en-US. 2020-01-13.
  2. La France et la formation de la démocratie parlementaire en Serbie 1830-1914. Paris 4. 1997-01-01. thesis. Dušan T.. Bataković.
  3. Web site: Zlatna nit postojanja Dušana T. Batakovića. Tasić. Piše: Jelena. Dnevni list Danas. sr-RS. 2020-01-13.
  4. Web site: Dušan T. Bataković - autor. Knjizara.com. en. 2020-01-13.
  5. Web site: Crveno doba - zločini komunista u Srbiji i Crnoj Gori. Prvi Prvi na Skali. 2020-01-13.
  6. Web site: Dusan T. Batakovic Institute for Balkan Studies SASA - Academia.edu. balkaninstitut.academia.edu. 2020-01-13.
  7. Web site: Опело и сахрана др Душана Батаковића Српска Православна Црква [Званични сајт]]. www.spc.rs. 2020-01-13. 2020-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20200113185855/http://www.spc.rs/sr/opelo_sahrana_dr_dushana_batakovitsha. dead.
  8. Book: Tromp, Nevenka. Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević: The Unfinished Trial. 2016-04-14. Routledge. 978-1-317-33526-9. en.
  9. Web site: Аmbasada Republike Srbije u Republici Grčkoj. www.athens.mfa.gov.rs. 2020-01-13.
  10. Web site: Sahranjen istoričar Dušan T. Bataković. T. Piše: J.. Dnevni list Danas. sr-RS. 2020-01-13.
  11. Web site: Batakovic Srpski Насловна. www.batakovic.com. 2020-01-13. 2020-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20200113185050/http://www.batakovic.com/srb/. dead.
  12. Web site: Batakovic Srpski Насловна. www.batakovic.com. 2020-01-13. 2020-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20200113185050/http://www.batakovic.com/srb/. dead.
  13. Web site: Orden Dušanu Batakoviću. Serbia. RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. www.rts.rs. 2020-01-13.
  14. Web site: Prihvatljiv plan Z4 za Kosmet. arhiva. blic. Blic.rs. sr. 2020-01-13.
  15. Book: Acović, Dragomir. Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. 2012. Belgrade. Službeni Glasnik. 510.
  16. Web site: ОБЕЛЕЖЕНО 25 ГОДИНА ПОСТОЈАЊА КРУНСКОГ САВЕТА. Solutions. Softech. Краљевска породица Србије. sr-cir. 2020-01-13.
  17. Anscombe. Frederick. The Ottoman Empire in Recent International Politics – II: The Case of Kosovo. 40109813. The International History Review. 28. 4. 2006. 761. 10.1080/07075332.2006.9641103. 154724667. "Even if some Serbian historians have not promoted a consciously nationalistic view, history as practised in Serbia has observed the constraints imposed by state-sponsored nationalism. As suggested in Part I, nation-building states in former Ottoman territories have used their influence over education, support for and dissemination of research, and the media to draw implicit, and sometimes explicit, boundaries for acceptable historical interpretation. Minor variations on the established narrative may be allowed, but even less overtly ideological historians remain chroniclers of the nation. As in most other post-Ottoman states, few historians in Serbia are able to read Ottoman texts: the focus of their research is confined to Serbs and Serbian lands under 'the Turks'. In the 1980s and 1990s, overtly nationalist Serbian scholars such as Dušan Bataković received the most generous support for the publication of their work. [2] The focus of much of such nationalist history was Kosovo. Footnote: [2] Bataković wrote a series of nationalist works on Kosovo, of which several (The Kosovo Chronicles [Belgrade, 1992] and Kosovo, la spirals de la haine [Paris, 1993]) have been translated into other languages."

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