Ivo Banac

Ivo Banac (born March 1 1947 in Dubrovnik) is a Croatian historian and politician. He is the Bradford Durfee Professor of History and director of the Council on European Studies at Yale University. He is currently the President of the Croatian Helsinki Committee.

Until recently, he was director of the Institute on Southern Europe at the Central European University, Budapest. He is now also director of the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik.

He is a consultant for the Bosnian Institute.

From 1990 onwards, Ivo Banac was also active in Croatian politics. He joined the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and became one of the strongest critics of Franjo Tuđman and his government, especially with regards to policy towards Bosnia and Herzegovina. He expressed his criticism in a column written for "Feral Tribune".

After HSLS split in 1997, Banac joined the Liberal Party. He kept a critical distance towards the government even after LS became part of a new governing left-centre coalition in 2000. He often accused Ivica Račan of SDP of not doing enough to reverse negative policies of Tuđman's era.

Many were surprised to find Banac, who had reputation of maverick and independent intellectual, become leader of LS, and even more were surprised to see him take the post of minister of environmental protection in 2003. He held that post only for few months, until SDP - the party with whom LS was aligned - lost the election to rejuvenated HDZ.

After the elections, Banac advocated a merger of all liberal parties in Croatia. This policy was opposed by Zlatko Kramarić who orchestrated Banac's removal from party leadership in 2004. Banac left LS and was an independent representative in the Sabor for the rest of his term.

Selected bibliography

Books

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* "With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist splits in Yugoslav communism" (1988)
* "Cijena Bosne" ["The price of Bosnia"] (1996)
* "Raspad Jugoslavije" ["The Break-up of Yugoslavia"] (2001).

Papers

* citation
title= From Tito to Milosevic: Yugoslavia, the Lost Country
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=The Slavonic and East European Review
volume=86
issue=1
pages=180-181
url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/see/2008/00000086/00000001/art00036
date=2008

* citation
title=The Weight Of False History
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=Forum Bosnae
issue=15
pages=201-206
url=http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=b784eab5-5ed8-47d4-85f7-6ad19e3feee3&articleId=6e58a297-8165-4050-9c11-4da98add5dd5
date=2002

* citation
title=Sorting Out the Balkans: Three New Looks at a Trouble Region
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=Foreign Affairs
volume=May/June 2000
url=http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20000501fareviewessay53/ivo-banac/sorting-out-the-balkans-three-new-looks-at-a-trouble-region.html
date=2000

* citation
title=Silencing the archival voice: the destruction of archives and other obstacles to archival research in post-communist Eastern Europe
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=Arhivski vjesnik
volume=42
issue=42
url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?lang=hr&show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=16241
date=2000

* citation
title=Law, Lawyers and the Holocaust: The Case Against Vichy France
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies
volume=12
issue=1
pages=175-177
url=http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/12/1/175
date=1998

* citation
title=EEPS and Editorial Transition
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=East European Politics & Societies
volume=8
issue=3
pages=381-382
url=http://eep.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/8/3/381
date=1994

* citation
title=Misreading the Balkans
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=Foreign Policy
volume=93
pages=173-182
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-7228(199324%2F199424)93%3C173%3AMTB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
date=1993

* citation
title=Historiography of the Countries of Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=The American Historical Review
volume=97
issue=4
pages=1084-1104
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(199210)97%3A4%3C1084%3AY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
date=1992

* citation
title=The Demise of Yugoslavia: Introduction
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=East European Politics & Societies
volume=6
issue=3
pages=219
url=http://eep.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/6/3/219
date=1992

* citation
title=Continuing EEPS
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=East European Politics & Societies
volume=4
issue=1
pages=1-3
url=http://eep.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/4/1/1
date=1989

* citation
title=The Confessional "Rule" and the Dubrovnik Exception: The Origins of the "Serb-Catholic" Circle in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=Slavic Review
volume=42
issue=3
pages=448-474
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779(198323)42%3A3%3C448%3ATC%22ATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
date=1983

* citation
title=Review of Hrvatska nacionalna ideologija preporodnog pokreta u Dalmaciji
last=Banac
first=Ivo
journal=The American Historical Review
volume=87
issue=5
pages=1426-1427
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762(198212)87%3A5%3C1426%3AHNIPPU%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
date=1982

External links

* [http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/banac.html Official Bio at Yale University]
* http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=298 hr icon
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779%28198323%2942%3A3%3C448%3ATC%22ATD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O&size=LARGE Banac Projects]