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James J. Sadkovich

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Description:Interview by Julienne Eden Bušić:Q: It’s hard to believe it’s taken so long for the first political biography of the first Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, to be published, almost 20 years after Croatia achieved independence under his leadership.Sadkovich: I began the project in 2004 while on a six-month appointment as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I hoped to do a quick survey of Franjo Tuđman’s published writings to see whether they jibed with his public image. I was not sure of what I would find; I just wanted a better idea of who he had been. But a quick survey of his writings was not possible; there were just too many pages to read in six months. So I continued to read after I left the Wilson Center, and as I read, I began to write. By the end of 2006, the manuscript was complete enough to submit to the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.Q: Has it been published yet in English?Sadkovich: No. The Woodrow Wilson Center Press sent it to two reviewers, and then to a third because the first two could not agree on whether it should be published. Because the third review was negative, the press rejected the manuscript. I have tried to interest other university presses in the United States and the United Kingdom in the manuscript, but with no success. Why this should be the case, I do not know, but I suspect that it might be because Croatia is a small country. I had similar difficulties interesting university presses in my work on the Italian navy. One editor even told me that had I been studying the German navy, he would have been interested, but the Italian navy was marginal and nobody would buy a book on it. I suspect similar attitudes are at work with regard to Tuđman. Certainly, most people in the United States and the United Kingdom believe that Milošević and Serbia were more important than Tuđman and Croatia.Q: You wrote an exhaustive study about the American media’s role during the Homeland War, “The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, 1991-1995”, how they framed the conflict, and how the reports were often tailored to conform to higher political agendas. Do you think the same thing has happened in regard to Franjo Tudjman, and the negative image held of him in certain U.S. media and political circles? And, I might add, Tito’s image as well, which remains for the most part untarnished in the Western media, in spite of his widely-known role in mass executions, imprisonments, assassinations, and so forth? Were they both “invented” by the U.S. media?Sadkovich: My research suggested that journalists read scholarly books and seek information from a variety of experts, including scholars, and even when they do not, what is published in scholarly venues and taught at universities tends to shape the minds of a country’s elites. I would say that the scholarly and the popular media shaped Tuđman’s image both abroad and in Croatia, with more than a little help from diplomats, politicians, statesmen, and bureaucrats, including those working for NGOs. So there are several questions that one might ask about how Tuđman’s image was formed. Which politicians, experts, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, experts, and scholars did journalists consult regarding Tuđman? Who appeared on TV and radio talk shows to discuss him? Which books did journalists and policy-makers read? What were the required readings in college courses on Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia? And so on.To have access to influential publications is to shape opinion, and during the early 1990s, Croatian leaders and spokesmen had relatively little access to the top echelons of government and the most influential publications. In addition, many diplomats who influenced policy in the United States had been posted to Belgrade, not to Zagreb. I can only speculate regarding the effect of spending time in the Serbian rather than the Croatian capital because those American diplomats and journalists that I contacted refused to talk with me. However, I suspect that where diplomats are posted makes a difference, given what I know of Italian diplomats during the 1920s and 1930s. Those based in Belgrade tended to reflect opinions current in the Yugoslav capital, while those posted to Zagreb tended to relay information from the Croatian opposition. Something similar appears to have influenced how people viewed Tuđman.For many people, Tuđman was the embodiment of nationalism, the fashionable evil of the late 1990s, a decade imbued with a multicultural ethos and a bias in favor of multinational business, multinational organizations, and “diversity.” Tito was the embodiment of “good” communism from the mid 1940s to the late 1970s, a period in which people were looking for a way to avoid nuclear war in a polarized world. He had fought with the Allies as the leader of the Partisans, and he had severed his ties with Stalin’s Russia in 1948. He then helped to launch the non-aligned movement in the 1950s...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tuđman: Prva politička biografija - James J. Sadkovich. To get started finding Tuđman: Prva politička biografija - James J. 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Pages: 435

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Publisher: Večerni List, Zagreb, Croatia.

Release: 2010

ISBN: 9537313727

Description: Interview by Julienne Eden Bušić:Q: It’s hard to believe it’s taken so long for the first political biography of the first Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, to be published, almost 20 years after Croatia achieved independence under his leadership.Sadkovich: I began the project in 2004 while on a six-month appointment as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I hoped to do a quick survey of Franjo Tuđman’s published writings to see whether they jibed with his public image. I was not sure of what I would find; I just wanted a better idea of who he had been. But a quick survey of his writings was not possible; there were just too many pages to read in six months. So I continued to read after I left the Wilson Center, and as I read, I began to write. By the end of 2006, the manuscript was complete enough to submit to the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.Q: Has it been published yet in English?Sadkovich: No. The Woodrow Wilson Center Press sent it to two reviewers, and then to a third because the first two could not agree on whether it should be published. Because the third review was negative, the press rejected the manuscript. I have tried to interest other university presses in the United States and the United Kingdom in the manuscript, but with no success. Why this should be the case, I do not know, but I suspect that it might be because Croatia is a small country. I had similar difficulties interesting university presses in my work on the Italian navy. One editor even told me that had I been studying the German navy, he would have been interested, but the Italian navy was marginal and nobody would buy a book on it. I suspect similar attitudes are at work with regard to Tuđman. Certainly, most people in the United States and the United Kingdom believe that Milošević and Serbia were more important than Tuđman and Croatia.Q: You wrote an exhaustive study about the American media’s role during the Homeland War, “The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, 1991-1995”, how they framed the conflict, and how the reports were often tailored to conform to higher political agendas. Do you think the same thing has happened in regard to Franjo Tudjman, and the negative image held of him in certain U.S. media and political circles? And, I might add, Tito’s image as well, which remains for the most part untarnished in the Western media, in spite of his widely-known role in mass executions, imprisonments, assassinations, and so forth? Were they both “invented” by the U.S. media?Sadkovich: My research suggested that journalists read scholarly books and seek information from a variety of experts, including scholars, and even when they do not, what is published in scholarly venues and taught at universities tends to shape the minds of a country’s elites. I would say that the scholarly and the popular media shaped Tuđman’s image both abroad and in Croatia, with more than a little help from diplomats, politicians, statesmen, and bureaucrats, including those working for NGOs. So there are several questions that one might ask about how Tuđman’s image was formed. Which politicians, experts, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, experts, and scholars did journalists consult regarding Tuđman? Who appeared on TV and radio talk shows to discuss him? Which books did journalists and policy-makers read? What were the required readings in college courses on Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia? And so on.To have access to influential publications is to shape opinion, and during the early 1990s, Croatian leaders and spokesmen had relatively little access to the top echelons of government and the most influential publications. In addition, many diplomats who influenced policy in the United States had been posted to Belgrade, not to Zagreb. I can only speculate regarding the effect of spending time in the Serbian rather than the Croatian capital because those American diplomats and journalists that I contacted refused to talk with me. However, I suspect that where diplomats are posted makes a difference, given what I know of Italian diplomats during the 1920s and 1930s. Those based in Belgrade tended to reflect opinions current in the Yugoslav capital, while those posted to Zagreb tended to relay information from the Croatian opposition. Something similar appears to have influenced how people viewed Tuđman.For many people, Tuđman was the embodiment of nationalism, the fashionable evil of the late 1990s, a decade imbued with a multicultural ethos and a bias in favor of multinational business, multinational organizations, and “diversity.” Tito was the embodiment of “good” communism from the mid 1940s to the late 1970s, a period in which people were looking for a way to avoid nuclear war in a polarized world. He had fought with the Allies as the leader of the Partisans, and he had severed his ties with Stalin’s Russia in 1948. He then helped to launch the non-aligned movement in the 1950s...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tuđman: Prva politička biografija - James J. Sadkovich. To get started finding Tuđman: Prva politička biografija - James J. 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