Mihailo Vojvodić (1938–2025)

Abstract

Mihailo Vojvodić was a distinguished scholar and dedicated academic. Professor Vojvodić’s research focused on what is perhaps the most intriguing period in the modern history of Serbia: the age in which the Serbian national identity was forged in the modern sense (from 1878 to 1914). During his long career, he sought to unravel the intricacies of the foreign policy aspect of this process, in which Serbia’s independence, as established at the Congress of Vienna, set the stage for the development of its institutions, civil society, military and, most significantly, the transformation of the Serbian peasantry into citizens and conscripts of the Serbian state who wholeheartedly embraced the objectives of the Serbian nation.