Srđa Trifković (also
Srdja Trifković;
SerbianSerbian is a South Slavic language, spoken chiefly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and in the Serbian diaspora...
Cyrillic: Срђа Трифковић and as author
Serge Trifkovic) (born July 19, 1954, in
BelgradeBelgrade Belgrade Belgrade (Serbian Cyrillic: Београд, Serbian Latin: Beograd (meaning "White City" in Serbian) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on two international waterways, at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where Central Europe's Pannonian Plain meets...
) is a Serbian-American
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
and was (1998-2008) foreign-affairs editor for the
paleoconservativePaleoconservatism is a term for an anti-communist and anti-imperialist right-wing political philosophy in the United States stressing tradition, civil society and anti-federalism, along with religious, regional, national and Western identity. Chilton Williamson, Jr...
magazine
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. He has a PhD in history from the
University of SouthamptonThe University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902 the Institution developed into the Hartley University...
. He is also director of the Center for International Affairs at the
Rockford InstituteRockford Institute is a conservative think-tank associated with Paleoconservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois. It was founded by Rockford College President Dr. in 1976 as a response to American social changes of the 1960s. It is known for the John Randolph Club, and publishes Chronicles: A...
. Trifkovic was also an unofficial spokesman for the
Republika SrpskaRepublika Srpska is one of two main political-territorial divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
government in the 1990’s.
Trifkovic is the author of
Sword of the Prophet, a book on the history and doctrines of Islam. A former consultant to President
Vojislav KostunicaVojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944, Belgrade, Yugoslavia is a Serbian politician and the President of the Democratic Party of Serbia. He was the last President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, succeeding...
, he comments on Balkan politics and is a regular columnist for several conservative publications in the United States.
Biography
Trifkovic earned a
BABachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
(Hon) in international relations from the
University of SussexThe University of Sussex is a British campus university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. It was the first of the "plate glass" universities founded in the 1960s. It received its Royal Charter in August 1961...
in 1977 and another, in political science, from the
University of ZagrebThe University of Zagreb is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe.-History:...
in 1987. Since 1990 he has held a
Ph.DDoctor of Philosophy, abbreviated PhD , for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", or alternatively, DPhil, for the equivalent , is an advanced academic degree awarded by universities...
in modern history from the
University of SouthamptonThe University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902 the Institution developed into the Hartley University...
,
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, and in 1991-1992 he pursued post-doctoral research on a Title VIII grant
http://www.state.gov/s/inr/grants/ from the U.S. Department of State as a Visiting Scholar at the
Hoover InstitutionThe Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then-future U.S. president Herbert Hoover....
in
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.
http://www.balkanstudies.org/wordfiles/Origins/origins_of_crisis.htm
Beginning in 1980, Trifkovic has been a radio broadcaster for
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and
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and later a correspondent covering southeast
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
for
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and the
Washington Times during which time he was an editor for the Belgrade magazine
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.
Trifkovic has been an adjunct professor at the University of St Thomas in Houston, TX (1996-1997), and in August 1997 he joined the faculty of the short-lived Rose Hill College in Aiken, SC. In 1994-95 he was an unofficial spokesman for the
Bosnian Serb governmentRepublika Srpska is one of two main political-territorial divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1423835.stm
Trifkovic has published op-eds and commentaries in
The TimesThe Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register....
http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk/pages/S.asp?pubsel=TIM&SrchText=&DateFromDD=18&DateFromMM=Mar&DateFromYY=1999&DateToDD=20&DateToMM=Mar&DateToYY=1999&ResultListMax=20&head=&byline=Trifkovic§=&Caption=&edn=&page=&SortOrder=Desc&SortField=SDate&Submit1=Search&BackDD=Day&BackMM=Month&BackYY=Year&source=thetimes&SortField=Pub&SortOrder=asc&SortField=EDN&SortOrder=asc&SortField=Page&SortOrder=asc&ST=NS&SortSpec=&ResultMaxDocs=20&Site=ALL&Collection=NI&ResultCount=20&summreqd=yes&indexkey=2E5E639843493530055E170&advsrch=0&QueryText=%28%28Trifkovic%29+%3CIN%3E+byline%29+%3CAND%3E+%28PUB%3DTIM%29+%3CAND%3E+%28%28SDate%3E%3D3%2F18%2F1999%29+%3CAND%3E+%28SDate%3C%3D3%2F20%2F1999%29%29&_P=1]of London,
http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9903&L=twatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=P&P=10387 the
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, the American Conservative
http://www.amconmag.com/09_22_03/index1.html and
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, and been a commentator on numerous national and international TV and radio programs, including the
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Show on (MSNBC),
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http://www.balkanpeace.org/rs/archive/oct00/rs89.shtml,
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, SKY News
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.yugoslavia/browse_thread/thread/4d49deba93ac7d4d/3bbdaf5442de0b31?lnk=st&q=trifkovic+source%3Acnn&rnum=5&hl=en#3bbdaf5442de0b31, BBC Radio 4
http://archive.serbianunity.net/kosta/autori/trifkovic.srdja/trifk-bbc_040595.html,
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http://archive.serbianunity.net/kosta/autori/trifkovic.srdja/trifk-bbc_260595.html and
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.
http://archive.serbianunity.net/kosta/autori/trifkovic.srdja/trifk-canadian_260595.html He has contributed to
Liberty, the newspaper of the Serbian National Defense Council of America.
http://www.snd-us.com/Liberty/milosevic_legacy.html
Trifkovic has worked as a political consultant to Aleksandar Karađorđević and
Vojislav KoštunicaVojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944, Belgrade, Yugoslavia is a Serbian politician and the President of the Democratic Party of Serbia. He was the last President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, succeeding...
, and as an adviser to
Biljana PlavšićBiljana Plavšić is a former Bosnian Serb politician and university professor currently serving a sentence in Sweden as a result of a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes...
.
In February 2000 he testified to the Canadian House of Commons on the situation in the Balkans.
http://www.balkanpeace.org/content/otkh01.shtml In July 2000 he took part in a Congressional briefing
http://kucinich.house.gov/Issues/Issue/?IssueID=1563#Kosovo organized by Rep. Kucinich.
Trifković has worked as a political consultant to
Alexander, Crown Prince of YugoslaviaAlexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia also known as Alexander Karađorđević , born 17 July 1945) is the claimant to the throne of Serbia. At the time of his birth, his father was the King of Yugoslavia, making him Yugoslavia's last crown prince...
and Former Yugoslav President
Vojislav KoštunicaVojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944, Belgrade, Yugoslavia is a Serbian politician and the President of the Democratic Party of Serbia. He was the last President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, succeeding...
, as an adviser to
Biljana PlavšićBiljana Plavšić is a former Bosnian Serb politician and university professor currently serving a sentence in Sweden as a result of a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes...
, and as representative of the
Republika SrpskaRepublika Srpska is one of two main political-territorial divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
in London. In
March 2003March 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →-Events:-March 1, 2003:...
he testified as an
expert witnessAn expert witness or professional witness is a witness, who by virtue of education, training, skill, or experience, is believed to have knowledge in a particular subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially rely upon the witness's specialized opinion about an...
for the defense before the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaThe International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...
. In September 2008 he testified again before the ICTY, this time as a material witness.
In June 2006 he gave the keynote address at a symposium on the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945, at
Yad VashemYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament.The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse: "And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and...
Center in Jerusalem.
http://www.jasenovac.info/stranice/ProgramoftheAcademicExchange.pdf
Books
Trifković has written three books:
The Sword of the Prophet received praise from conservative critics. It was called an "exceptionally fluid argument against militant Islam... Powerful stuff powerfully presented" by Ray Olson in
BooklistBooklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. It is geared toward libraries and booksellers and is available in print or online. It is published twice monthly September through June and monthly in July...
. Writing in
The SpectatorThe Spectator is a weekly Britishmagazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by the Barclay brothers, who also own The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
, Frank Johnson called it "the sort of book which the professional anti-racists, and the British mosques, might try to ban before long." "Dr. Trifkovic understands Islam... The problem of historical ignorance in today’s English-speaking world, where claims about faraway lands and cultures are made on the basis of domestic multiculturalist assumptions, are hit right on the head by the author," wrote
Taki TheodoracopulosTaki Theodoracopulos , originally named Petros Theodoracopulos but better known as Taki, a nickname for Petros and other Greek male names, is a Greek-born journalist and writer living in New York City, London and Switzerland...
in
The American ConservativeThe American Conservative is a monthly U.S. opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos. The magazine is edited by McConnell and published by Ron Unz...
. "Serge Trifkovic writes a calm and thoughtful tome... [H]e is arguing that a significant number of people subscribe to militant Islam, and that such militancy is a natural result of following the actual teachings of Muhammad and the Koran... If you want to wrestle with harsh truths rather than PC fiction, this book is a good place to start," concludes Steven Greenhut in
The Orange County RegisterThe Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. The Register has the third largest paid daily circulation in California, behind only the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. The Register is the flagship publication of Freedom Communications, Inc., which...
.
He was called a "noted Islamophobe" by neoconservative author
Stephen SchwartzStephen Suleyman Schwartz is an American journalist, columnist, and author. His background is on the political left, but now describes himself as a neoconservative. In 1997 he became Muslim, and is a vocal critic of Islamic Fundamentalism, especially in the form of the Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam...
. In 2003 he was accused by Schwartz of being a supporter of
Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia...
, though he was a signatory to a letter which protested Milošević in 1996 and has condemned him in numerous publications. Trifkovic received a formal apology from the publisher of Schwartz's article.
Filmography
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