Vjeran Pavlaković
Biographic Data
| ID | 825474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vjeran Pavlaković |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vjeran |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavlaković |
| SIGNATURE | PAVLAKOVIĆ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rijeka |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2549-0627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slowing Down
This article introduces the special issue on slow memory in the Yugoslav successor states, and as such proposes some directions for further developing a framework of the slow that can be incorporated into the conflict analysis and conflict transformation inquiries in memory studies. By placing the slow memory framework alongside the slow peace one, the special issue editors make visible what far too often is lost in depictions of war and peace, a…
International Criminal Tribunals as Triggers of Institutional Change? Evidence from Ad Hoc Tribunals and the icc’s Referral and Proprio Motu Cases
The current article examines whether international criminal tribunals ( ict ) can be regarded as actors of international relations, which trigger domestic policy changes in countries under their jurisdiction. Drawing on the concepts of ‘third party enforcement’ and ‘credible commitment’ theory, the study examines ict cases during which an ict carried out investigations and prosecutions against the will of the respective sitting government. Based …
Beyond Serb-Croat Apologies
One of the key themes in the three decades after the wars of Yugoslav dissolution has been reconciliation between Croatia and Serbia, two former Yugoslav republics that participated in the bloody fighting between 1991–1995 after Croatia declared independence. The recent inflation of the use of the term reconciliation requires a narrow and precise definition, which enables researchers and practitioners to adapt it to real-world cases and the avail…
The Spanish Civil War and the Yugoslav Successor States
Yugoslav scholarship about the Spanish Civil War, specifically the Yugoslav volunteers who fought in the International Brigades, was almost exclusively tied to the partisan struggle during the Second World War and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Many countries in the Soviet bloc published books about their heroes who fought fascism before Western Europe reacted and raised monuments to Spanish Civil War veterans. However, many lost their lives …
The Puzzle of Punitive Memory Laws
In recent years and decades, authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies have passed and enforced punitive memory laws, intending to ban certain interpretations of past events or sheltering official versions of history against challenges. This comes as no surprise in countries whose governments undermine pluralism and assume the existence of a historical truth that is stable over time, invariable, and self-explanatory. But why do liberal demo…
Framing the Nation and Collective Identities
Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratizati…
The Controversial Commemoration
This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War.Drawing upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region.The articl…
Florian Thomas Rulitz, The Tragedy of Bleiburg and Viktring, 1945
Omar G. Encarnacion, Democracy without Justice in Spain
Rory Yeomans, Visions of Annihilation
Robert M. Hayden’s From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans
Symbols and the culture of memory in Republika Srpska Krajina
This article examines how rebel Serbs in Croatia reinterpreted narratives of World War Two to justify their uprising against the democratically elected Croatian government in 1990 and gain domestic and international legitimacy for the Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK) parastate. While scholars have written about the strategies nationalist elites used regarding controversial symbols and the rehabilitation of World War Two collaborators in Croatia and…
Kordić, S., Jezik i nacionalizam [Language and Nationalism], (Zagreb
Twilight of the Revolutionaries
In the decade following the death of Josip Broz Tito in May 1980 the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Socijalisticka Federativna Republika Jugoslavija, SFRJ)experienced increasingly catastrophic political, social and economic crises that contributed to the country's eventual disintegration and bloody ethno -national conflict in the 1990s. Attempts at reforming the decaying Titoist system, presided over by the League of Communists of Yugo…
Croatia, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and General Gotovina as a Political Symbol
In 2005, Croatia's prospects for Euro-Atlantic integration depended entirely on one man. Surprisingly, it was neither the country's prime minister, nor the president, nor any other government offic
Vladko Maček, the Croatian Peasant Party and the Spanish Civil War
In summer 1936 Vladko Maček's priorities lay with rebuilding the Croatian Peasant Party after its six years of illegality under King Aleksandar's dictatorship in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yet the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) was to have a polarising and radicalising effect on Croatian society. Both communists and supporters of the fascist Ustaša movement looked to Spain as a model for resolving the ‘Croat question’ at a time when Croats were beco…
Refugee returns in Kosovo
Croatia, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and General Gotovina as a Political Symbol
In 2005, Croatia's prospects for Euro-Atlantic integration depended entirely on one man. Surprisingly, it was neither the country's prime minister, nor the president, nor any other government offic
The Controversial Commemoration
This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War.Drawing upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region.The articl…
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratizati…
Symbols and the culture of memory in Republika Srpska Krajina
This article examines how rebel Serbs in Croatia reinterpreted narratives of World War Two to justify their uprising against the democratically elected Croatian government in 1990 and gain domestic and international legitimacy for the Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK) parastate. While scholars have written about the strategies nationalist elites used regarding controversial symbols and the rehabilitation of World War Two collaborators in Croatia and…
The Puzzle of Punitive Memory Laws
In recent years and decades, authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies have passed and enforced punitive memory laws, intending to ban certain interpretations of past events or sheltering official versions of history against challenges. This comes as no surprise in countries whose governments undermine pluralism and assume the existence of a historical truth that is stable over time, invariable, and self-explanatory. But why do liberal demo…
Refugee returns in Kosovo
Refugee returns in Kosovo
Vladko Maček, the Croatian Peasant Party and the Spanish Civil War
In summer 1936 Vladko Maček's priorities lay with rebuilding the Croatian Peasant Party after its six years of illegality under King Aleksandar's dictatorship in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yet the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) was to have a polarising and radicalising effect on Croatian society. Both communists and supporters of the fascist Ustaša movement looked to Spain as a model for resolving the ‘Croat question’ at a time when Croats were beco…
Twilight of the Revolutionaries
In the decade following the death of Josip Broz Tito in May 1980 the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Socijalisticka Federativna Republika Jugoslavija, SFRJ)experienced increasingly catastrophic political, social and economic crises that contributed to the country's eventual disintegration and bloody ethno -national conflict in the 1990s. Attempts at reforming the decaying Titoist system, presided over by the League of Communists of Yugo…
Croatia, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and General Gotovina as a Political Symbol
In 2005, Croatia's prospects for Euro-Atlantic integration depended entirely on one man. Surprisingly, it was neither the country's prime minister, nor the president, nor any other government offic
Kordić, S., Jezik i nacionalizam [Language and Nationalism], (Zagreb
Symbols and the culture of memory in Republika Srpska Krajina
This article examines how rebel Serbs in Croatia reinterpreted narratives of World War Two to justify their uprising against the democratically elected Croatian government in 1990 and gain domestic and international legitimacy for the Republika Srpska Krajina (RSK) parastate. While scholars have written about the strategies nationalist elites used regarding controversial symbols and the rehabilitation of World War Two collaborators in Croatia and…
Rory Yeomans, Visions of Annihilation
Robert M. Hayden’s From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans
Omar G. Encarnacion, Democracy without Justice in Spain
Florian Thomas Rulitz, The Tragedy of Bleiburg and Viktring, 1945
The Controversial Commemoration
This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War.Drawing upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region.The articl…
Framing the Nation and Collective Identities
Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War
Cultures of Victory and the Political Consequences of Foundational Legitimacy in Croatia and Kosovo
What are the consequences of a culture of victory in countries undergoing new state formation and democratic transition? In this article, we examine 'foundational legitimacy,' or a hegemonic narrative about the way in which a new state was created, and the role particular groups played in its creation. We argue that the way in which victory is institutionalized can pose a grave threat to the democratic project. If reconciliation and democratizati…
The Spanish Civil War and the Yugoslav Successor States
Yugoslav scholarship about the Spanish Civil War, specifically the Yugoslav volunteers who fought in the International Brigades, was almost exclusively tied to the partisan struggle during the Second World War and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Many countries in the Soviet bloc published books about their heroes who fought fascism before Western Europe reacted and raised monuments to Spanish Civil War veterans. However, many lost their lives …
The Puzzle of Punitive Memory Laws
In recent years and decades, authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies have passed and enforced punitive memory laws, intending to ban certain interpretations of past events or sheltering official versions of history against challenges. This comes as no surprise in countries whose governments undermine pluralism and assume the existence of a historical truth that is stable over time, invariable, and self-explanatory. But why do liberal demo…
Beyond Serb-Croat Apologies
One of the key themes in the three decades after the wars of Yugoslav dissolution has been reconciliation between Croatia and Serbia, two former Yugoslav republics that participated in the bloody fighting between 1991–1995 after Croatia declared independence. The recent inflation of the use of the term reconciliation requires a narrow and precise definition, which enables researchers and practitioners to adapt it to real-world cases and the avail…
International Criminal Tribunals as Triggers of Institutional Change? Evidence from Ad Hoc Tribunals and the icc’s Referral and Proprio Motu Cases
The current article examines whether international criminal tribunals ( ict ) can be regarded as actors of international relations, which trigger domestic policy changes in countries under their jurisdiction. Drawing on the concepts of ‘third party enforcement’ and ‘credible commitment’ theory, the study examines ict cases during which an ict carried out investigations and prosecutions against the will of the respective sitting government. Based …
Slowing Down
This article introduces the special issue on slow memory in the Yugoslav successor states, and as such proposes some directions for further developing a framework of the slow that can be incorporated into the conflict analysis and conflict transformation inquiries in memory studies. By placing the slow memory framework alongside the slow peace one, the special issue editors make visible what far too often is lost in depictions of war and peace, a…
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