Slobodan Samardžić

Slobodan Samardžić

Slobodan Samardžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Самарџић) is a Serbian academic and politician, and the former Minister for Kosovo-Metohija in the Government of Serbia succeeded by Goran Bogdanović.

Biography

Slobodan Samardžić was born in Belgrade in 1953 to Bosnian and Montenegrin Serb parentage. He belongs to a prominent Serbian Samardžić family that originates from the Herzegovinian Krivošije region and clan near Herceg Novi, nowadays in Montenegro.

Samardžić graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade, where he also obtained his PhD. He was editor of scientific and political programme at Radio Belgrade from 1982 to 1984. He was a fellow of the Institute of European Studies. Since 2001 Samardžić is a full professor of European Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade. He is also Director of Political Studies at the Belgrade think-tank Centre for Liberal-Democratic Studies.

Area of his studies includes political ideas and institutions, contemporary federalism, political theory and practice of constitutionalism, political system of Yugoslavia and Serbia, and European Union. His long-term study visits include Göttingen, Frankfurt, Fribourg and Brussels. Samardžić wrote five books: "Ideology and Rationalism" (1984), "Council Democracy" (1987), "Yugoslavia and the Challenge of Federalism" (1990), "Coercive Community and Democracy" (1994), "European Union as a Model of the Supranational Community" (1998).

Samardžić was advisor for political issues to former Yugoslav president and Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica. He headed the Serbian government’s Committee for Decentralisation and is a member of the state negotiating team on the future status of Kosovo-Metohija.

Samardžić speaks English and German and is married with three children.

References

* [http://www.fpn.bg.ac.yu/ Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade]
* [http://www.clds.org.yu/ Centre for Liberal-Democratic Studies]
* [http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/ Government of Serbia]
* [http://www.kim.sr.gov.yu/ Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija, Government of Serbia]


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