Dušan T. Bataković (Cyrillic Serb: ДушанТ. Батаковић, born the April 23rd 1957 with Belgrade) is a historian and diplomatic Serbe. After the studies of history in Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, he worked in Institute of history in Belgrade (1983-1992) then in Institute of the Balkan Studies of the Serb Académie of Sciences and Arts (1993-1998). In January 1997 it supported the thesis of the doctorate in history ( France and formation of the parliamentary democracy in Serbia 1830-1914 ) in the Université of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), it teaches since 1998 the European history and methodology of history at the University of Belgrade. Directing elected official of the Institute of the Balkan Studies in October 2005 he is also editor association of the directory Balcanica as well as the special editions of the Institute.

Bataković wrote largely on the question of the Kosovo, the relations serbo-Albanian, on the origins of Balkan nationalism , the role of the army the sources of the democracy in Serbia and the impact of the Communisme on the Yugoslav area . It gives the conferences in the several universities Europeans and takes part in the conferences international, in France and elsewhere. He is also the author of a documentary series Crveno doba ( the red Time ) treating the crimes of the Yugoslav Communists in Serbia and with the Montenegro, as a book black of televised Communism.

Opposing to the mode Milošević, president of the the democratic Council of the changes (1998-2001), Bataković was appointed in January 2001 the ambassador of the Federal republic of Yugoslavia (since 2003 Serbia and Montenegro) in the Hellenic Republic. Of its return in July 2005 it was named to advise President of the Republic of Serbia. As an expert for the question of the Kosovo, he was elected in 2006 member of the Serb team of negotiations on the future statu of Kosovo, within the framework of UNO with Vienna. In July 2007 it was indicated the ambassador of Serbia to the Canada.

Reasoned bibliography

• Dečansko pitanje ( the question of Dečani ), Belgrade: Institute of history-Prosveta 1989. (deuxème edition: Belgrade: Čigoja štampa 2007) ISBN 978-86-7558-450-6
• Savremenici O Kosovu I Metohiji 1850-1912 ( contemporaries on Kosovo and Metohija 1850-1912 ), Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga 1989.
• Kosovo-Metohija in the Serb history , Lausanne: The Old one of Man 1990 (author of the four chapters). ISBN 2-8251-0139-7
• Kolubarska bitka ( the battle of Koloubara in 1914 ), Belgrade: Litera 1989 (with NR. B. Popović).
• Kosovo I Metohija U srpsko-arbanaškim odnosima ( Kosovo and Metohija in the serbo-Albanian relations ), Priština: Jedinstvo 1991; ISBN 86-7019-071-0 (2nd edition: Čigoja štampa 2006).
• The Kosovo Chronicles , Belgrade: Plato Books 1992, ISBN 86-447-0006-5; Rumanian translation: Cronica of Kosovo , Bucuresti: Editura Biblioteca Bucurestilor 1999. ISBN 973-99243-0-1
• Kosovo. The spiral of hatred , Lausanne: The Old one of Man 1993 (2nd edition 1998).
• Yugoslavia: nations, religions, ideologies , Lausanne: The Old one of Man 1994. ISBN 9-782825-105344
• The Serbs off Bosnia and Herzegovina. History and Politics , Paris: Dialog 1996. ISBN 2-911527-10-0
• Kosovo I Metohija. Istorija I ideologija , ( Kosovo and Metohija: history and ideology ), Belgrade: Hrišćanska misao 1998. (2nd edition: Belgrade: Čigoja štampa 2006).
• History of the Serb people (under the direction), Lausanne: The Old one of Man 2005. ISBN 2-8251-1958-X

External bonds

• Dušan T. Bataković - quotes personal with the articles and the bibliography
• Dusan T. Batakovic - IMDb (English)
• The Kosovo Chronicles (English)
• Dušan Bataković, Ph.D. - official site of the President of Serbia (English)
• the Institute of the Balkan Studies, Belgrade - official site