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Dr Svetozar Rajak
 Dr Svetozar Rajak is the Academic Director of LSE IDEAS and serves on the Management Committee|. He is also Head of the Balkan Programme|.
Among other responsibilities, Dr Rajak is the Academic Director of the LSE-Peking University Double Masters Degree in International Affairs. Dr Rajak was educated in Yugoslavia and Britain and holds degrees in Economy and History. He received his PhD in History from LSE. Dr Rajak teaches Cold War history and history of Eastern Europe and the Balkans at the Department of International History at LSE. Dr Rajak is the editor of the Cold War History journal and co-editor of the two-volume documentary project on Soviet-British relations in the Cold War, co-sponsored by the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Working group for new archival legislation of the Republic of Serbia and of the Republic of Serbia Commission for Truth and Reconciliation. Dr Rajak is also a visiting lecturer at Belgrade University and was the recipient of a prestigious grant from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Areas of Expertise
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Twentieth Century International History
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The Cold War
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History of the Balkans
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Eastern Europe
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The making of the post Cold War international system
Recent Publications
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Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the early Cold War: reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-57, (London: Routledge, 2010)
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"The Cold War in the Balkans: From the Greek civil war to Soviet-Yugoslav normalization". In: Leffler, Melvyn P. and Westad, Odd Arne, (eds.) Cambridge history of the Cold War, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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"In search of a life outside the two blocs: Yugoslavia's road to non-alignment", In: Dimic, Ljubodrag, (ed.) Great powers and small countries in Cold War, 1945-1955, (University of Belgrade, Archives of Serbia and Montenegro and SD Public, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005)
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"Auf der Suche nach einem Leben außerhalb der beiden Blöcke: Jugoslawiens Weg in die Blockfreiheit", In: Geppert, Dominik and Wengst, Udo, (eds.) Neutralität- Chance oder Chimäre?: Konzepte des Dritten Weges für Deutschland und die Welt, 1945-1990, (Wissenschaftsverlag, München, Germany: Oldenbourg, 2005)
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"The Tito - Khrushchev correspondence, 1954" Cold War international history bulletin, (2001)
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"Yugoslav-Soviet relations and the Hungarian crisis in 1956", Isotija, (2000)
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