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Milan Jazbec
Prof Dr Milan Jazbec is a Slovene diplomat and ambassador, professor of diplomacy, poet and writer, member of the first generation of Slovene diplomats. He is employed at the Minis...view moreProf Dr Milan Jazbec is a Slovene diplomat and ambassador, professor of diplomacy, poet and writer, member of the first generation of Slovene diplomats. He is employed at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, and lectures diplomacy at the Nova University. He lives and works in Ljubljana. He was the sixth Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of North Macedonia (2016-2020) and the fourth Slovene Ambassador to Turkey (2010-2015), being also accredited on a non-residential basis to Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. He was also appointed State Secretary for Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence from December 2000 to November 2004, during the crucial period for the Slovene NATO and the EU membership activities.Diplomacy is the field he has moved to since the late '80s, when also completing diplomatic school in 1988, while engaged in the Federal Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade (1987-1991). He was the last Yugoslav Consul in Klagenfurt (Celovec), Austria (1991) where he after the international recognition of Slovenia continued as the first Slovene Consul (1992-1995).His professional advancement associated at all times with academic development. After a doctoral degree at the University of Klagenfurt (2000), he devoted his academic attention to researching and lecturing diplomacy. He was elected to Full Professor of diplomacy in March 2015 at the University of Ljubljana. He gave lectures i.a. at the University of Columbia and at City University of New York, the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, and at Faculties of Political Sciences in Sarajevo and Zagreb. He was visiting professor at Universities of Bilkent, Middle East and Technical University, and Ankara University, Turkey, as well as at the South East European University in Tetovo, at the International Balkan University, and at University American College, both in Skopje, all in North Macedonia. Among the most discussed and lectured topics of particular interest for him are general diplomacy and history of diplomacy, diplomatic and consular law, European integration process, sociology of diplomacy, post-modern diplomacy, history of Slovene diplomacy as well as diplomacy and literature.He published (as the author, coauthor, editor, co-editor, translations and reprints) over 70 books in fifteen languages: Slovene, English, German, Albanian, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Macedonian, Montenegro, Roma, Vlach, Serb, Bosnian, Spanish, and Ukrainian; one third of them deals with the field of diplomacy; including seven books of poetry. In 2021, The International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies IFIMES from Ljubljana published his trilogy of selected contributions from the period 1990-2021, titled "Selected Scientific Works and other Contributions by Milan Jazbec". He is also the author of more than 150 articles in the field of diplomacy, security and defense, and related issues. This further adds to his broad and multilayered career in diplomacy, business/management, journalism and politics, as well as a professor, poet and writer.He is the cofounding editor of the international scientific journal European perspectives (since 2009) and since 2017 also member of the Slovene PEN. He was decorated in 2005 with the high Austrian state award the Great Golden Decoration of Honour with Star for the merit for the Republic of Austria. Since summer 2020 he is the Vice President of the International Centre for Emotional Intelligence, Ohrid, North Macedonia. He continues to contribute blog posts at Diplo (www.diplomacy.edu), where he is also a Senior Fellow. He is also member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Politics, published by International Balkan University, Skopje, and of the journal European Union Legislation, published by the Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade.view less