EVENT

The Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer (RIHGAT) at Meiji University will hold an open lecture as outlined below.

Dr. Tasić is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. His primary research interests concern the history of the Yugoslav armed forces during both the interwar monarchy and the post–World War II socialist federation, their role within a broader social context, and their influence on foreign and domestic policy, particularly in relation to Yugoslavia’s position during the Cold War. He received his PhD from the University of Belgrade and has worked for many years at the Serbian Military History Institute/Strategic Research Institute.
In 2014, he was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship. From 2014 until 2016, as an IRC Fellow, he worked at the Centre for War Studies at University College Dublin on a book project examining the Yugoslav experience of paramilitaries after the Great War within a broader Balkan context.
His main works include:

Co-authored with Dr. Ivan Laković, “The Tito–Stalin Split and Yugoslavia’s Military Opening toward the West, 1950–1954,” in In NATO’s Backyard, Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, as part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series).

“Post-War Transformation of Armed Forces – Yugoslav Examples,” in Past through Present: Thoughts on Military History at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Levels of War, edited by Harold Raugh, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna, 2013, pp. 279–289.

Co-edited with Dr. Aleksandar Miletić, The Longue Durée of Paramilitarism: Balkan and Global Perspectives, Peter Lang, 2025.