Zlatko Hadžidedić
Zlatko Hadžidedić is a Bosnian author, political scientist, and academic specializing in nationalism studies, international relations, and political theory. He is the founder of the Center for Nationalism Studies in Sarajevo.

 Education 
Hadžidedić received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Sarajevo, with a thesis titled “Forced to be Free: The Paradoxes of Liberalism and Nationalism” (nationalism studies, history of ideas, political theory). He holds an MPhil in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in Society and Politics from the Central European University, and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Sarajevo.

 Career 
Hadžidedić has held teaching positions at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, the American University in the Emirates (Dubai), and the University of Sarajevo. He has written extensively on nationalism, political theory, and the geopolitical background of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He served as a political adviser to the Vice-Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gavrilo Grahovac (2003–2005), the Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Safet Halilović (2005–2006), and the Minister of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Safet Halilović (2006–2011).

 Selected publications 
Hadžidedić’s major works include:

• Nations and Capital: The Missing Link in Global Expansion (London-New York: Routledge, 2022), a groundbreaking analysis of the reasons for the emergence of nations and nationalism as socio-political and geopolitical instruments in the global expansion of capitalism.

• Forced to Be Free: The Paradoxes of Liberalism and Nationalism (Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012), which explores the symbiosis between liberalism and nationalism, showing how liberalism's endorsement of the nation as the exclusive unit of political legitimacy and nationalism's endorsement of liberty as the ultimate value mutually reinforce each other.

• Pad (Sarajevo: Bosanska knjiga, 1993), a historical drama in verses.

• Istočnici Istog (Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1989), poetry.

 References 

Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
Category:Scholars of nationalism
Category:Nationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)