School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

  • Senior Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 4910
email: Vladimir.Unkovski-Korica@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 303, Central and East European Studies, 71 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LE

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651

Biography

Vladimir works on twentieth-century Yugoslav and European history. His initial focus was on the socio-political, economic, business, and diplomatic history of Yugoslavia during the Cold War. He is currently researching the impact of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia on the British left, from the Second World War to the Kosovo War. He is more broadly interested in the history and legacies of communism, non-alignment, anti-imperialism, development, and de-colonisation.

Before coming to the University of Glasgow in 2015, Vladimir completed an MSc in Russian and Eastern European Studies at Oxford University and a PhD in International History at the London School of Economics (LSE). He subsequently held an LSE Fellowship, an Assistant Professorship of History at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow (HSE), and a research fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe at the University of Rijeka.

Since joining CEES, Vladimir has joined the editorial board of Europe-Asia Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, and European History Quarterly. He is keen to contribute to public debate beyond academia. He has therefore served on the editorial boards of websites like LeftEast and regularly contributes articles related to his research interests to the press and online media in English and Serbo-Croatian.

Research interests

  • Yugoslav and Balkan history
  • Communism
  • International history of the Cold War and its legacies
  • The European left and social movements
  • Town or regional twinning
  • Uneven and combined development
  • Nationalism and federalism

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 16.

2025

Foley, James and Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2025) Decentring the west? civilisational solidarity and (de)colonisation in theories of the Russia-Ukraine war. Globalizations, 22(4), pp. 613-633. (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2024.2399475)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2025) Le reti tra città italiane e jugoslave prima del conflitto. In: Betti, Eloisa and Zaccaria, Benedetto (eds.) L'Italia e le guerre jugoslave: Reti solidali, società civile, istituzioni. Series: Studi Storici Carocci. Carocci: Rome, pp. 47-60. ISBN 9788829026357

2024

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2024) NATO from the European to the Eurasian Balkans: 25 years on from the Kosovo War. Transform Review: Review of European Politics, 1(1), pp. 220-239.

2023

Dale, Gareth and Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2023) Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective. Business History, 65(7), pp. 1242-1274. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2134348)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 and Vejzagić, Saša (2023) Business history goes East: an introduction. Business History, 65(7), pp. 1119-1136. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2234827)

2022

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2022) Non-aligned cities in the Cold War: municipal internationalism, town twinning and the Standing Conference of Towns of Yugoslavia, c.1950-c.1985. International History Review, 44(3), pp. 559-576. (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2021.1960585)

2020

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2020) Yugoslavia’s third way: the rise and fall of self-management. In: Lampe, John R. and Brunnbauer, Ulf (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History. Routledge. ISBN 9781138613089 (hbk) 9780429464799 (ebk)

2019

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2019) From the Cold War to the Kosovo War: Yugoslavia and the British Labour Party. Revue d'Études Comparatives Est-Ouest, 2019/1(5), pp. 115-145. (doi: 10.3917/receo1.501.0115)

2018

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2018) Neravnomeran i spojen razvoj: „novi trockistički međunarodni odnosi“. In: Jović, Dejan (ed.) Marksističke teorije međunarodnih odnosa = Marxist Theories of International Relations. Fakultet Političkih Znanosti: Zagreb. ISBN 9789538174087

2016

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2016) The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780763286

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2016) Constructing Yugoslavia: a transnational history; Remembering Utopia: the culture of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24(1), pp. 98-101. (doi: 10.1080/0965156X.2016.1171014)[Book Review]

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2016) World War II and the national question: the origins of the autonomous status of Vojvodina in Yugoslavia. Europe-Asia Studies, 68(10), pp. 1712-1735. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1257700)

2015

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2015) Self-management, development and debt: the rise and fall of the 'Yugoslav experiment'. In: Štiks, Igor and Horvat, Srećko (eds.) Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia. Verso: London. ISBN 9781781686201

2014

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2014) Workers' councils in the service of the market: new archival evidence on the origins of self-management in Yugoslavia 1948–1950. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 108-134. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.855020)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2014) The Yugoslav Communists' special relationship with the British Labour Party 1950–1956. Cold War History, 14(1), pp. 23-46. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2013.765864)

2008

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2008) A flawed vision: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Reinventing Social Emancipation: Toward New Manifestoes. International Socialism, 208(118), Mar 31. [Book Review]

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Number of items: 16.

Articles

Foley, James and Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2025) Decentring the west? civilisational solidarity and (de)colonisation in theories of the Russia-Ukraine war. Globalizations, 22(4), pp. 613-633. (doi: 10.1080/14747731.2024.2399475)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2024) NATO from the European to the Eurasian Balkans: 25 years on from the Kosovo War. Transform Review: Review of European Politics, 1(1), pp. 220-239.

Dale, Gareth and Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2023) Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective. Business History, 65(7), pp. 1242-1274. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2022.2134348)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 and Vejzagić, Saša (2023) Business history goes East: an introduction. Business History, 65(7), pp. 1119-1136. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2234827)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2022) Non-aligned cities in the Cold War: municipal internationalism, town twinning and the Standing Conference of Towns of Yugoslavia, c.1950-c.1985. International History Review, 44(3), pp. 559-576. (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2021.1960585)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2019) From the Cold War to the Kosovo War: Yugoslavia and the British Labour Party. Revue d'Études Comparatives Est-Ouest, 2019/1(5), pp. 115-145. (doi: 10.3917/receo1.501.0115)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2016) World War II and the national question: the origins of the autonomous status of Vojvodina in Yugoslavia. Europe-Asia Studies, 68(10), pp. 1712-1735. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1257700)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2014) Workers' councils in the service of the market: new archival evidence on the origins of self-management in Yugoslavia 1948–1950. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 108-134. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.855020)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2014) The Yugoslav Communists' special relationship with the British Labour Party 1950–1956. Cold War History, 14(1), pp. 23-46. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2013.765864)

Books

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2016) The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780763286

Book Sections

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2025) Le reti tra città italiane e jugoslave prima del conflitto. In: Betti, Eloisa and Zaccaria, Benedetto (eds.) L'Italia e le guerre jugoslave: Reti solidali, società civile, istituzioni. Series: Studi Storici Carocci. Carocci: Rome, pp. 47-60. ISBN 9788829026357

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2020) Yugoslavia’s third way: the rise and fall of self-management. In: Lampe, John R. and Brunnbauer, Ulf (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History. Routledge. ISBN 9781138613089 (hbk) 9780429464799 (ebk)

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2018) Neravnomeran i spojen razvoj: „novi trockistički međunarodni odnosi“. In: Jović, Dejan (ed.) Marksističke teorije međunarodnih odnosa = Marxist Theories of International Relations. Fakultet Političkih Znanosti: Zagreb. ISBN 9789538174087

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2015) Self-management, development and debt: the rise and fall of the 'Yugoslav experiment'. In: Štiks, Igor and Horvat, Srećko (eds.) Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia. Verso: London. ISBN 9781781686201

Book Reviews

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2016) Constructing Yugoslavia: a transnational history; Remembering Utopia: the culture of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24(1), pp. 98-101. (doi: 10.1080/0965156X.2016.1171014)[Book Review]

Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651 (2008) A flawed vision: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Reinventing Social Emancipation: Toward New Manifestoes. International Socialism, 208(118), Mar 31. [Book Review]

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Supervision

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD applicants in any of my main areas of research. I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.

Current MPhil or PhD supervision:

  • Aidan Ratchford: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: Trade and Goodwill Missions and Economic Analysis, 1959-1965
  • Niall Gray, The Edinburgh Conversations: Scotland and the End of the Cold War (Strathclyde)

I have successfully supervised a number of PhDs to completion, among them:

  • Irena Baboi, Europeanisation and the Future of European Union Involvement in the Western Balkans 
  • Matthew Blackburn, ‘Understanding Changing Russian Nationalism: A Cross-Generational Study’
  • Christopher Campbell, ‘The West and the Russian Orthodox Church's Role in Soviet Diplomacy’
  • Jamie Allan, ‘Gorky, Bukharin and the Politics of Rapprochement in the Soviet Cultural Sphere’
  • Stefana Djokic, ‘Art and politics: the role of art in US-Yugoslav relations during the Cold War (1948-1970)’ (Edinburgh)
  • Yin Lam Ethan Chan, The Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund in Halle-Neustadt (MPhil)

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Contributor, CEES 1A: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF STALIN
  • Contributor, CEES 1B: COMMUNISM AND ITS COLLAPSE
  • Honours option, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
  • Honours option, WAR AND REVOLUTION IN THE BALKANS, 1804-2012
  • Honours option, MONUMENTS AND MEMORIES: THE LEGACIES OF COMMUNISM FIELDTRIP

Postgraduate

  • Contributor, ISSUES IN RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES
  • Contributor, RESEARCH METHODS FOR STUDYING RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND EURASIA
  • Contributor, YUGOSLAVIA AND AFTER: THEMES AND CONTROVERSIES

Additional information

At the moment, I am on research leave. In the past, I have acted as CEES UG Learning & Teaching Convenor, Honours Convenor, Assessment Officer, and Level 1 Convenor.

I also served on the School of Social and Political Sciences Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee, Learning & Teaching Committee, GTA committee, and Workload Allocation Working Group, as well as the College of Social Sciences Appeals Committee.

Finally, I am an active member of University and Colleges Union: Glasgow (UCUG), having acted as its Co-Vice President, Secretary, Casework Coordinator and College of Social Sciences Rep.