Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State

“Samuel Huntington is one of the most influential American thinkers in the latter part of the 20th century. His works such as Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981), Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991), Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) and his newest book “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (2004) have set many standards in thinking not only in the United States but also in the West and the world at large... We now introduce to our reading public Huntington’s study entitled “The Soldier and the State: Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations”, which first came out in 1957. (It was supplemented in 1985; the translation was based on the 2002 nineteenth edition.) While being less known to the broader public, it is recognized by professional and political circles as a major work on the relationship between civil society and armed forces, which is nowadays referred to as the democratic oversight of the armed forces”. Prof. Dr. Predrag Simic (excerpt from the foreword).

Zoran Veljic, Diplomatic Protocol

The book "Diplomatic Protocol" by Zoran Veljic is probably the only comprehensive edition in this field released not only in this country but also in the wider region of this part of Europe. The book is also important as it is based on the experiences and current trends in the present-day diplomatic protocol in many countries, primarily in European Union countries. It is a valuable reading, above all for people either dealing with, or those who will be dealing with, the diplomatic protocol on a professional basis. In my opinion, it is further very useful to any reader as guidance in expanding his general culture horizons. That is why I strongly recommend this book. Ambassador (retired) Vojislav Vucivevic,

Bogdan Lj. Popovic, History of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

“The manuscript before us describes the history of a public institution... It depicts a 113-year period of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It begins with initial steps made by Serbia’s Foreign Service and ends up in 1918. Namely, it covers the period from the Serbian Uprising against the Ottomans until the creation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes”, Bogdan Lj. Popovic (excerpt from the author’s foreword).

Radoslav Vesnic, junior
Dr. Milenko Vesnic
GRAND SEIGNEUR OF THE SERBIAN DIPLOMACY

Milenko Vesnic, Serbian Majesty’s Ambassador to Paris between 1903 and 1920, was an outstanding diplomat, statesman, researcher and a public figure at a time when Serbia was rapidly being transformed from a backward Balkan principality to a modern European state, when it enhanced its position in the Balkan region and in Europe and emerged, despite huge losses, victorious out of three consecutive wars to actively participate in the creation of the first Yugoslav state in 1918... That was a golden age of Serbian diplomacy, in which Milenko Vesnic happened to head probably the most important diplomatic mission for Serbia and took part in the historic events to which he gave his strong personal touch, thus ranking him among the leading personalities in Serbian and Yugoslav diplomatic history.
Ambassador Dr. Predrag Simic

The work of Radoslav Vesnic Jr. is the first in-depth and research-based biography of Dr. Milenko Vesnic, a premier lawyer, politician and, above all, a brilliant diplomat. Being the result of many years of research, this voluminous work is based on extensive archival and secondary reference materials, which enabled the author to depict and analyze the whole extremely important period in Serbia’s history. He provides an excellent and detailed insight into the shaping of Serbian and, later on, Yugoslav diplomacy, its main preoccupations in the first decades of the twentieth century, and reveals many unknown facts from the political and diplomatic life of those times.
Prof. Dr. Zoran Stanojevic

This work is a monograph of a historical nature with a liberal interpretation of facts, the social setting and the times in which Milenko Vesnic lived and worked. The author’s language and style are simple, easily readable and pleasing. The manuscript deserves to be published both because of the very significance of a now forgotten Serbian diplomat and politician, but also because of the multitude of less known facts and their literary and historical interpretation.
Prof. Dr. Vasilije Krestic