Dušan T. Bataković

Dušan T. Batakovic ( Serbian Cyrillic Душан Т Батаковић, . Born April 23, 1957 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian historian and diplomat. He is president of the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences and president of the Serbian Committee of the International Society for Southeast European Studies.

Life

Batakovic graduated in 1982 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He specializes in the history of Serbia and the Balkans in the 19th and 20th century. In addition to numerous publications on the special role of Kosovo and the Serbian- Albanian relations Batakovic has also produced historical TV documentaries.

As president of the Council for Democratic Change Dušan T. Batakovic introduced in the late 1990s against Slobodan Milošević. During this time he developed in 1998 plans for a cantonization instead partition of Kosovo. The plan was created for the Belgrade Institute of Geopolitical Studies and was presented to the EU's special envoy Wolfgang Petrich on 16 December 1998, was rejected by the Albanian side and from the international community.

From 2001 to 2005, Batakovic Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Greece, he became an adviser to the Serbian President Boris Tadić and his ambassador to the Vienna Troika talks on Kosovo in 2005. From 2007 to 2009 he was Serbia's Ambassador to Canada, 2009-2012 Ambassador to France.

Works

As the author:

• Dečansko pitanje ( The Dečani question). Historical Institute - Prosveta, Belgrade, 1989; Second, updated edition: Čigoja Stampa Belgrade 2007, ISBN 978-86-7558-450-6.
• Savremenici o Kosovu i Metohiji 1850-1912 ( Kosovo and Metohija contemporaries 1850-1912 ). Srpska književna zadrugam, Belgrade 1989.
• ( with Nikola B. Popović ) Kolubarska bitka. Litera, Belgrade 1989.
• ( Co-author) Kosovo i Metohija u srpskoj istoriji (Kosovo and Metohija in Serbian history ). Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade 1989. German translation: Kosovo and Metohija in Serbian history. L' Age d' Homme, Lausanne 1989.

As the editor:

• Kosovo and Metohija. Living in the Enclave (with added multimedia content and original documents ) Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, 2008, ISBN 978-86-7179-064-2.
• La Serbie et la France - une alliance atypique. Les relations politiques économiques et culturelles, 1870-1940. Institut des Etudes Balkaniques, serb Académie des Sciences et des Arts, Belgrade 2010, ISBN 978-86-7179-061-1.
• Minorities in the Balkans. State Policy and Inter- Ethnic Relations ( 1804-2004 ). Belgrade, Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade 2011, ISBN 978-86-7179-068-0.