Ivan Grdesic

Administration

PASCAL Theme(s):

Lifelong Learning

Province:: Alabama
Country:: United States

Croatia

Title:

Professor

First name:

Ivan

Last name:

Grdesic

Interests/Expertise:

Governance issues and policy analysis, concepts and methods. Elections and political parties. Power research in local communities. New democracies and transitional issues. NATO enlargement.

Recent research/consultancy:

Head of the research project “Croatian Political System, Governance and Public Policy", Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb. 2007 – present. Funded by Ministry of Science, R. of Croatia.
Co-editor of professional political science journal “Political Analysis”.
NATO enlargement and Croatia.

Recognitions, positions, memberships:

Ivan Grdesic is Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdome and a professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science. He served as Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United States from 2000 until 2004. Prior to assuming his ambassadorial duties in the US, Ambassador Grdesic was associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he graduated and obtained his Ph.D. in political science. From 1996 to 1999 he was vice-dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and president of the Croatian Political Science Association. Professor Grdesic was a Fulbright visiting professor at Virginia Tech University during the 1999 to 2000 academic year, and at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1992 to 1993. He is president of the Croatian Fulbright Alumni Association.

Selected publications:

Ivan Grdesic is author of the books, Politicko odlucivanje ,(Political Decision-making; 1995) and Osnove analize javnih politika (Introduction to Public Policy Analysis; 2006) and has also co-authored several other works, including, Hrvatska u izborima 1990, (Croatia in the 1990 Election; 1992), Izbori za Hrvatski sabor 1990 i 1992-93, (The 1990 and 1992-93 Sabor Elections in Croatia; 1997), and Radikalna desnica u Srednjoj i Istocnoj Europi (The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe; 1999). He has written numerous scientific and scholarly articles on Croatia's political system,democratic transition, elections and public policies, which have been published in domestic and international journals.