dr. Ivan Vuković
Dr. Ivan Vuković is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro, specializing in comparative politics and international relations. The primary focus of his academic work includes political parties and party politics, comparative transitions, and authoritarian and hybrid regimes. He earned his MA in 2008 from Leiden University and completed his PhD in 2014 at Central European University in Budapest. He was appointed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro, in 2015. He also completed academic training at Harvard University and George Washington University, where he was a visiting lecturer in 2017.
From 2018 to 2023, he served as the Mayor of the Capital City of Podgorica, and since 2024, he has been a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Montenegro and Chair of the Committee on European Integration.
He has published in several academic journals, including Democratization, Ethnopolitics, and Contemporary European Studies, as well as chapters in a Routledge monograph on party politics in the European “micro” states.
Email: ivan.m.vukovic@gmail.com
Selected publications:
- Vuković, Ivan, and Nemanja Batrićević (2022). “Party Politics in Montenegro: In the Shadow of the Statehood Issue.” Party Politics in European Microstates. Routledge. 146-162.
- Milačić, Filip, and Ivan Vuković (2018). “The rise of the politics of national identity: New evidence from Western Europe.” Ethnopolitics5 (2018): 443-460.
- Vuković, Ivan (2015). “Political dynamics of the post-communist Montenegro: one-party show.” Democratization1 (2015): 73-91.
- Vuković, Ivan (2015). “Population Censuses in Montenegro-A Century of National Identity” Repacking”.” Contemporary Southeastern Europe2 (2015): 126-141
- Vuković, Ivan (2010). “The post-communist political transition of Montenegro: Democratization prior to Europeanization.” Contemporary European Studies02 : 59-77.