Dr. Filip Milačić

Dr. Filip Milačić is a senior researcher at the “Democracy of the Future” office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), a visiting professor at Central European University in Vienna, and a research fellow at the Democracy Institute of Central European University in Budapest. He studied political science and East European history at Heidelberg University (Germany) and earned his PhD from Humboldt University (Germany). His primary research focus includes democratization processes, democratic consolidation, democratic backsliding, and democratic resilience, with a special emphasis on the role of nationalism.

He has also worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the MacMillan Center at Yale University, and the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka.

He has published articles in several journals, including Democratization, Ethnopolitics, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, and Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. He is the author of two books published by the renowned publisher Springer:

  • Nationalstaatsbildung, Krieg und Konsolidierung der Demokratie: Kroatien, Serbien, und Montenegro (2017)

  • Stateness and Democratic Consolidation: Lessons from Former Yugoslavia (2022)

Email: filip.milacic@yahoo.com

Selected Publications:

  • Milacic, Filip. 2025. When Language Trumps Democracy: National Identity and Democratic Resilience in Spain, Political Science Quarterly (forthcoming)
  • Milacic, Filip. 2025. Democratic Backsliding Through Legislative Capture in Serbia: A One-Man Show, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 712:1, 47-60
  • Milacic, Filip. 2025. Why Austria’s Far Right Is Rising, Journal of Democracy
  • Milacic, Filip (with Svolik, Milan, Lutz, Johanna and Avramovska, Elena). 2023. In Europe, Democracy erodes from the Right, Journal of Democracy 34:1, 5-20.
  • Milacic, Filip. 2022. Stateness and democratic backsliding in the former Yugoslavia: How political actors subvert democracy in the name of the nation, Nations and Nationalism 28:4,1474-1493
  • Milacic, Filip. 2022. Stateness and Democratic Consolidation: Lessons from Former Yugoslavia. Wiesbaden: Springer
  • Milacic, Filip (with Vukovic, Ivan). 2018. The Rise of the Politics of National Identity: New Evidence from Western Europe, Ethnopolitics Nr. 17: 443-460