Paul Stubbs, PhD

Emeritus Senior Research Fellow
The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26 (May 4, 2026 – June 1, 2026)

Paul Stubbs is a British (Liverpool) born sociologist and activist-researcher who has lived and worked in Zagreb since 1994. He was a founding board member of the Croatian NGO The Centre for Peace Studies. His work focuses on policy translation, international actors in social policy and social development, new green-left municipalisms and the history of Yugoslav socialism, social welfare and the Non-Aligned Movement. He is Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, having previously worked at the University of Bradford in the UK and within the Globalism and Social Policy Programme at the University of Sheffield, UK. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 1988 at the University of Bath, UK was on “The Reproduction of Racism in State Social Work”.

Statement of interest

This Fellowship will enable archival and interview research in Ljubljana for my projected book Yugoslavia and the Global South in the Long 1970s: exploring the contradictions of decolonial solidarity. The book focuses on the intermestic politics – defined as the blurring of the distinction between internal and external politics – of socialist Yugoslavia roughly between the 1968 student unrest and the death of Tito in 1980. The book continues my interest in the history of socialist Yugoslavia, its economic, political, social, and cultural imaginaries and, in particular, its changing relationship with the Global South not least through the Non-Aligned Movement. The Fellowship will also facilitate research collaboration on the theme of global solidarities in the 1945-1991 period, with a particular focus on the Non-Aligned Movement and on workers and trades unions and allow for the presentation of my book on The New International Economic Order.

Selected publications

• Paul Stubbs (2026) The New International Economic Order: Lives and Afterlives Routledge, published on 5 September 2025.
• Paul Stubbs (2024) “Pokret nesvrstanih, Novi međunardni ekonomski poredak I globalizacija na drugi način”, Domagoj Račić and Paul Stubbs (eds.) Onkraj utopije: Tragovima Matka Meštrovića Zagreb: Multimedijalni institut; 208-231.
• Paul Stubbs (ed.) (2023) Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries McGill-Queens University Press.
• Paul Stubbs (2021) “Yugocentrism and the Study of the Non-Aligned Movement: Towards a decolonial historiography”, History in Flux 3: 133-155.
• Rory Archer, Igor Duda and Paul Stubbs (ed.) (2016) Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism Routledge.