Selimović Šenol: Esuli: od Mussolinija i Tita do Tuđmana i Berlusconija

Šenol Selimović: Esuli: from Mussolini and Tito to Tuđman and Berlusconi

The aim of the research is to use the example of the Esuli issue to explain the politics of the history of the Italian Republic, which affects the national political life on the internal level, and determines its relationship to the Republic of Croatia on the external level. The paper starts from the hypothesis that the Italian Republic, regarding the post-war fate of the eastern Adriatic, in the last quarter of a century, in the institutional and public sphere, constitutes a policy of history that essentially converges with that of the immediate aftermath, when the policy of the history of official Italy was marked by the political myth of the Esuli as a symbol of the "historical injustice" inflicted on it by the Allies by determining the new geopolitical map of Europe after the war. (from the introduction by Esuli, Šenol Selimović)

The book is of exceptional importance: first, because it shows how changed geopolitical circumstances affect the policies of the history of nation states; second, because it shows how this type of politics affects internal politics and the formation of Italian national identity; thirdly, because it shows the function of the politics of history, related to memories of the esula, in Italian foreign policy; fourth, because it shows how such a policy can affect relations between Italy and Croatia. (from a review by Prof. Tihomir Cipek, PhD)

This book represents an important, relevant and original contribution to contemporary political science, as well as critical and analytical historiography - disciplines that are (or at least should be) interested in the relationships between the "three ands": identity, interests and ideas. (from the review by Prof. Dejan Jović, Ph.D.)

Šenol Selimović was born on April 23, 1963 in the city of Edirne (Republic of Turkey).

He completed primary and secondary school in Zadar, and graduated in 1991 from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb. As an excellent student, he received the university Rector's Award. In 2012, he obtained an academic degree of Master of Science at the postgraduate scientific study International Relations at the same faculty, and then in 2019 he received his doctorate with the dissertation topic Esuli in the politics of the history of the Italian Republic.

In 2004, he received the Annual Award of the Croatian Journalists' Association, and in 2007 he was awarded the state award of the Italian Republic - the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.