Before coming to Berlin, Miloš completed his BA in History at the University of Belgrade as valedictorian. His bachelor thesis Halford Mackinder and Germany: Between Threat and Role Model examined Mackinder’s spatial understanding of the globe, and his desire to create a new kind of geographical science, geopolitics. The thesis attempted to shed a new light onto Mackinder’s thought by following the interplay between his intellectual role models in the shape of German geographers, his adherence to social-Darwinism and his lifelong dedication to the prosperity of the British Empire.

His MA thesis From Mazzini to Kropotkin: Political Role Models of Young Bosnia, later published in the Serbian language under the title Political Ideas of Young Bosnia, dealt with the student group which assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in summer of 1914. It represented an attempt to untangle the syncretism of the Young Bosnian ideology, mixture of nationalism, violent anarchism, and socialism, by devoting special attention to the processes of the transfer of ideas to Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time it explained why these ideas were embraced in the first place, by tracking down the context in which these newly adopted ideas were “high-jacked” and remodelled for local purposes.

Policy Making in a Global Framework: The Idea of Imperial Federation in Politics of the British Empire c. 1900 –1914

His PhD project is titled “Policy Making in Global Framework: Idea of Imperial Federation in Politics of British Empire c. 1900 - 1914” in which he intends to research the attempts to transform the British Empire into a Federation. He will seek to situate federalist ideas within their proper historical context in the following ways: a) by inspecting what factors encouraged growing reformist thought within the Empire, with the starting premise that cause should be looked for in the growing hostility in international arena, and nascent rift between separate national and imperial identities inside the Empire, that eventually created the feeling that the Empire needed to be reformed in order to survive; b) by examining both the role of communication technologies as agencies of imaginative shrinkage of the remoteness between metropolis and its possessions, and how this speculated annihilation of time and space influenced the construction of an imagined global political community; c) by analysing the intellectual origins of federalist constitutional visions for the future of the Empire.

contact: mvojinovic@zedat.fu-berlin.de