He wrote the following books:
Socijalizam na američkoj pšenici
(MH, 2002), Američki komunistički
saveznik; Hrvati, Titova Jugoslavija
i Sjedinjene Američke Države
1945-1955 (Profil/Srednja Europa,
2003), Treća strana Hladnog rata
(Fraktura, 2011), Trenuci katarze.
Prijelomni događaji XX stoljeća/
(Fraktura, 2013) and edited the book
Hrvatsko proljeće, četrdeset godina
poslije (Sveučilište u
Zagrebu/Centar Tripalo, 2012).
Jakovina is the author of a series
of articles about the foreign policy
of Tito's Yugoslavia, and
20th-century Croatian and Yugoslav
history. His books earned him state
awards in 2004 and 2014. He is the
recipient of the Kiklop Award (2013)
and the Award of the Society of
University Professors and Other
Scientists.
Tvrtko Jakovina graduated from the
Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb
where he also earned his PhD. He
attended courses at the University
of Kansas and Boston College and was
a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at
Georgetown University in
Washingtonu, D.C. He finished his
postgraduate studies at Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He
was also a Visiting Fellow at the
London School of Economics.
Jakovina is the Head of Postgraduate
Studies in Diplomacy established by
the Ministry of Foreign and European
Affairs in cooperation with the
University of Zagreb. He is a
long-standing guest lecturer at the
Istituto per l'Europa
centro-orientale e balcanica,
University of Bologna, and has also
lectured at the University of Split,
and led PhD degree programs at the
Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of
Political Science.
From 2010 to 2015, Tvrtko Jakovina
was a member of the Council for
Foreign Policy and International
Relations of the President of the
Republic of Croatia, Ivo Josipović.
He is the Vice-President of the
Croatian Fulbright Alumni
Association, a member of the Council
of the Croatian American Society,
Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board
of the Miko Tripalo Center for Law
and Democracy and a member of the
the Governing Board of the Croatian
Historical Society. He is a regular
contributor to the Jutarnji list
daily and Globus weekly. From 2013
to 2016 he presented the Treća
povijest (Third History) TV Show on
HRT3..
Themes:
International Relations
Texts:
Yugoslavia on the International Scene: The Active Coexistence of Non-Aligned Yugoslavia |