Bogdan Denitch

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Bogdan Denitch (actually Bogdan Denić ; born August 9, 1929 in Sofia , † March 28, 2016 in Split ) was an American sociologist .

Life

Bogdan Denitch was born in Sofia in 1929 as the son of a Yugoslav diplomat. Denitch was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the City University of New York . He was politically involved with the Democratic Socialists of America , whose honorary chairman he later became. Since 1980 he has hosted the Socialist Scholars Conference annually in New York City . In 1991 he founded the NGO Transitions to Democracy (ToD) , which campaigns for human rights and against nationalism in the successor states of Yugoslavia . Since 1991 he has hosted an annual conference called the School on Democracy and Social Justice for human rights activists from these states. Bogdan Denitch served on the editorial board of Dissent magazine .

In 1999 he advocated military intervention by NATO in the Kosovo war , but not in the form of air strikes, instead he called for the use of ground troops.

Bogdan Denitch had lived in New York since the 1950s. He spent half of the year there, the other half he was on the road in the former Yugoslavia. Denitch had a residence on the island of Brač .

Works

  • The importance of Yugoslav self-government , in: trade union monthly books, vol. 1973, pp. 335–346 ( online ; PDF; 129 kB)
  • The legitimation of a revolution. The Yugoslav case , 1976
  • Society and social change in Eastern Europe , 1978
  • Legitimation of regimes. International frameworks for analysis , 1979
  • The end of the Cold War. European unity, socialism, and the shift in global power , 1990
  • Limits and possibilities. The crisis of Yugoslav socialism and state socialist systems , 1990
  • After the flood: world politics and democracy in the wake of Communism , 1992
  • Learning from Yugoslavia's death. Nationalism and Democracy , in: Prokla , vol. 23.1993, pp. 369–385
  • Ethnic nationalism: the tragic death of Yugoslavia , 1994, 2nd edition 1996
  • Changing Identities: A Story of Democratic Leftism in Two Countries (autobiography, in preparation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In memoriam Bogdan Denić. In: portalnovosti.com. Novosti, January 29, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 (Bosnian).
  2. ↑ Dr Bogdan Denić Govori Za "Vreme": Terorizam - uzroci i izgovori. Obituary: Bogdan Denić (1929–2016). In: vreme.com. Vreme, March 30, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 (Bosnian).
personal data
SURNAME Denitch, Bogdan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denić, Bogdan Denis (full name); Denic, Bogdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist of Yugoslav origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2016
Place of death Split , Croatia