ALEKSANDAR PAVKOVIC

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ALEKSANDAR PAVKOVIC
Associate Professor

E-mail: aleksandar.pavkovic@mq.edu.au

TEACHING AREASCURRENT POSITION
  • Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
EDUCATION
  • 1983 Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, University of Beograd.
  • 1974 Bachelor of Philosophy in philosophy. University of Oxford .
  • 1972 BA (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), MA in philosophy, Yale University.
    Academic Posts
  • 2007- Associate Professor in Comparative Politics. Coordinator, Master of European Studies Programme. Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau .
  • 2007 Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, University of Essex .
  • 2002-4 Head, Department of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University .
  • 2003 Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, European University Institute, Florence.
  • 2001 Senior Research Fellow (seconded) Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne.
  • 2000- Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne.
  • 1999 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
  • 1998- Associate Professor in Politics. Macquarie University.
  • 1995-99 Director, European Studies Programme (BA), Macquarie University.
  • 1995-98 Associate Professor in Slavonic Studies, Macquarie University.
  • 1992-8 Director, Centre for Slavonic and East European Studies. Macquarie University.
  • 1987-95 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Slavonic Studies Section. Macquarie University.
  • 1985-87 Research Fellow. Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne.
  • 1981-82 Visiting Fellow. Department of Philosophy, University of Technology , Delft.
  • 1976-87 Assistant, Docent in philosophy. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Beograd, Yugoslavia.
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISHBOOKS: AUTHORED
  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession ( with Peter Radan). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007. Translated into Serbian and published by Sluzbeni glasnik, Beograd, 2008.
  • The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia : Nationalism and War in the Balkans, London : Macmillan Palrgrafe and New York : St. Martin's Press., 2000. Second revised edition. (First edition entitled: The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia: Nationalism in a Multinational State, London: Macmillan, 1997. Translation into Armenian published by Zangak-Press, Yerevan , 2007.
  • Slobodan Jovanovi c : An Unsentimental Approach to Politics. New York: East European Monographs/ Columbia University Press, 1993. Translated into Serbian and published by Institut za Politicke Studije, Beograd, 1996. Second revised edition published by Sluzbeni hlasnik, Beograd 2008. 
BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNALS (EDITOR)
  • On the way to statehood: secession and globalisation. Edited by Aleksandar Pavkovic and Peter Radan. Aldershot, Ashgate 2008. Introduction by A. Pavkovic.
  • Patriotism: political and philosophical perspectives , edited by Aleksandar Pavkovic and Igor Primoratz, Aldershot: Ashgate 2008. Introduction by the editors.
  • Identity, Self-Determination and Secession, edited by Igor Primoratz and Aleksandar Pavkovic, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Introduction by the editors.
  • Self-determination, Secession and the Creation of States , guest editors Aleksandar Pavkovic and Peter Radan, Macquarie Law Journal, Vol. 3, 2003.
  • The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Avoidable or Inevitable? special issue of The Nationalities Papers , No. 3, Vol. 25. New York, 1997.
  • Nationalism and Postcommunism: A Collection of Essays. edited by A. Pavkovic, H.Koscharsky and A.Czarnota. Aldershort and Brookfield, Vermont: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995. pp.173. Introduction by the editors.
  • Contemporary Yugoslav Philosophy: The Analytic Approach, Dordercht and New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, Introduction by A. Pavkovic.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
  • ‘Liberalism, secession and violence' in Sovereignty and Diversity , eds. By M. Jovanovic and K. Henrard, Amsterdam: Eleven International Publishing, 2008.
  • 'Killing for one's country' Patriotism: Philosophical and Political Perspectives , eds. Igor Primoratz and A. Pavkovic, Aldershot : Ashgate 2008.
  • 'Self-determination, national minorities and the liberal principle of equality' in Identity and Self-Determination , eds. Igor Primoratz and A. Pavkovic, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 189-217.
  • 'Terrorism as an Instrument of Liberation: A Liberation Ideology Perspective' in Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism , ed. George Meggle, Frankfurt and Lancester: Ontos Verlag,, 2005, 245-61.
  • 'Humanitarian Intervention in Nationalist Conflicts: A Few Problems' in Lessons of Kosovo: The Dangers of Humanitarian Intervention , ed. Aleksandar Jokic, Peterborough , Canada : Broadview Press, 2003, pp. 53-77.
  • ‘Kosovo/Kosova: a land of conflicting myths' in Ko sovo:The Politics of Delusion , edited by Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov and Bulent Gokay. London: Frank Cass. 2001, pp. 3-11.
  • ‘Constructing European Identity: Problems of Supranationalism' in Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity, Vol. 1, edited by J. Andrew, M. Crook, and M. Waller, London: Macmillan, 2000, 115-131.
  • ‘Yugoslavism - A National Identity Which Failed?' Citizenship and National Identity in Europe , eds. P. Murray and L. Holmes. Aldershort and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1999, 147-159.
  • ‘Intellectual Dissidence and the Serb National Question' in Nationalism and Postcommunism , edited by A.Pavkovic at al. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995, 121-41.
  • ‘Two Thaws in Yugoslav Philosophy' in Glasnost in Context edited by Marko Pavlyshyn. Oxford and New York : Berg Publishers, 1990, 69-82.
  • 'Is the Evil Daemon a Sceptical Device?' in Contemporary Yugoslav Philosophy: the Analytic Approach, ed. A.Pavkovic, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, 229-240.
  • ‘Skepticism and the Senses in Hume's Treatise' in Early Modern Philosophy edited by S. Tweyman and W.E. Creery. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1988, 61-75.
    Articles in refereed journals
  • 'Secession as a defence of a liberty: a liberal answer to a nationalist demand', Canadian Journal of Political Science, 37 (3), 2004: 695-713
  • 'In Pursuit of Sovereignty and Self-Determination: Peoples, States and Secession in the International Order', (co-author, Peter Radan), Macquarie Law Journal, 3, 2003:1-12.
  • 'Secession, Majority Rule and Equal Rights: a Few Questions', Macquarie Law Journal, 3, 2003: 73-94.
  • ‘Multiculturalism as a prelude to state fragmentation: the case of Yugoslavia', Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 3 (2), 2001:131-143,
  • ‘Recursive secessions in former Yugoslavia: too hard a case for theories of secession?' Political Studies, 48, 2000:485-502.
  • ‘What is common European heritage? The debates in the first Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, 1949,' Journal of European Integration History , 5, (2), 1999: 63-73.
  • ‘From Yugoslavism to Serbism: the Serb national idea 1986-1996', Nations and Nationalism, 4, 1998:511-28.
  • 'Prosperity and Intellectual Needs: The Credibility and Coherence of More's Utopia', Utopian Studies , 4 (1), 1993:26-37.
  • 'Slobodan Jovanovic and the Question of Human Rights', Slavic Review , 51 (1) 1992:131-136.
  • ‘Hume's Argument for the Dependent Existence of Perceptions: An Alternative Reading'. Mind , 61, 1982:585-592.
    Encyclopaedia entry:
  • 'South Slavs, Philosophy of' (with Zivan Lazovic). Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, London 1998, Volume 9, pp. 48-56.