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 six 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), and
State Construction and
Deconstruction (2008).
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 was (with
Vuk Jeremić)
co-ordinator of Serbia's State Negotiating Team on the future
status of Kosovo-Metohija.
Samardžić speaks
English and
German and is married with three
children.
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