Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Political and International Studies,
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26 (May 4, 2026 – May 17, 2026)

Dr Vladimir Unkovski-Korica is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment (2016) and co-editor of Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia (2024). Before joining the University of Glasgow in 2015, he held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and the Center for Advanced Studies – Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka. In collaboration with the Archives of Yugoslavia, Dr Unkovski-Korica co-curated an online exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary year of the introduction of self-management in Yugoslavia. This is available at: fabrikeradnicima.com.

Statement of interest

My stay at the Institute for Contemporary History in Ljubljana coincides with a six-month period of study leave at the University of Glasgow. During this time, I hope to advance research and writing on my second book project, tentatively entitled ‘The Elusive Search for a Third Way: the British Left and Yugoslavia from the Second World War to the Kosovo War’. Using my stay in Ljubljana, I will consult Yugoslav-era archives and present my ongoing work to interested audiences. Having co-curated an online exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the introduction of self-management in Yugoslavia (fabrikeradnicima.com), I hope to extend this work by working with colleagues at the institute to develop a project linking past and present historical narratives about self-management with the story of its dismantling, industrial heritage and post-Yugoslav memory regimes.

Selected publications

• Unkovski-Korica, V., & Vejzagić, S. (Eds.). (2024). Socialist Entrepreneurs?: Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
• Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (2022) 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, 44(3), pp. 559-576. (doi: 10.1080/07075332.2021.1960585)
• Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (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)
• Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (2016) The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito’s Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780763286
• Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (2014) The Yugoslav Communists’ special relationship with the British Labour Party 1950–1956. Cold War History, 14(1), pp. 23-46. (doi: 10.1080/14682745.2013.765864)