Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

Lecturer (Central & East European Studies)

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

Room 403, Central and East European Studies, 8-9 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-9651

Biography

I joined CEES as Lecturer in Legacies of Communism in September 2015.

Before coming to Glasgow, I completed an MSc in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Oxford University and a PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE), where I held a fellowship following the conclusion of my doctorate. I was then Assistant Professor of History at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow (HSE). I have also held a fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe at the University of Rijeka.

My research career started with a focus on the history of Communism with particular reference to the world’s first so-called ‘market socialist’ model: Tito’s Yugoslavia. My first book is a critical examination of how international economic and geopolitical pressures can exacerbate internal socio-political contradictions in semi-peripheral countries. The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment (I.B. Tauris, 2016) explores the ways in which a global dynamics shaped and undermined early but flawed attempts at crafting a participatory economy, contributing to the re-emergence of the pre-war national question that was later central to the bloody collapse of the country.

With a continued, but not exclusive, focus on the Balkans, I am now investigating how various state and non-state actors responded to the ‘global shocks’ of the 1970s and ever since. This research agenda will run along several connected tracks:

Western foreign policy and competition with the USSR/Russia in the Balkans since the 1970s;
Regional and continent-wide movements or initiatives interested in ‘alternative globalisation(s)’;
Longer-term patterns acting as a backdrop to contemporary tensions in the Balkan region.

I am on the editorial board of the journal Europe-Asia Studies and of several websites outside academia like LeftEast.

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

Publications

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Number of items: 11.

2021

Unkovski-Korica, V. (2021) 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, (Accepted for Publication)

2020

Unkovski-Korica, V. (2020) Yugoslavia’s third way: the rise and fall of self-management. In: Lampe, J. R. and Brunnbauer, U. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History. Routledge. ISBN 9781138613089 (hbk) 9780429464799 (ebk)

2019

Unkovski-Korica, V. (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, V. (2018) Neravnomeran i spojen razvoj: „novi trockistički međunarodni odnosi“. In: Jović, D. (ed.) Marksističke teorije međunarodnih odnosa = Marxist Theories of International Relations. Fakultet Političkih Znanosti: Zagreb. ISBN 9789538174087