Serge Trifkovic

PhD in history, University of Southampton (UK).  BA (Hon) in international relations, University of Sussex (UK). 

BA in political science, University of Zagreb (Croatia).

 

Author of The Sword of the Prophet - Islam: History, Theology, Impact on the World (over 70,000 copies sold since 2002), favorably reviewed by The Times of India, The Washington Times, The Spectator (UK), The American Conservative, The Orange County Register, Booklist, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review Book Service, Chronicles, and the Conservative Book Club, among others. The companion volume, Defeating Jihad, was published in 2006.

Author or contributing editor of six other books, including Peace in the Promised Land: A Realist Scenario (a collection of essays on the Arab-Israeli conflict, 2006); and a major study of World War II in Yugoslavia, Ustasa: Croatian Separatism and European Politics , widely quoted in scholarly literature on the subject.

Refereed articles include Bosnian War in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2001);    Rivalry between Germany and Italy in Croatia, 1941-1943, in The Historical Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4 (1993). Yugoslavia in Crisis, 1939-41, in European History Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 529-561 (1993). "The First Yugoslavia and the Origins of Croatian Separatism.” East European Quarterly, Vol.26, No.3 (1992).

Published in U.S. News & World Report, The Times of London, The American Conservative, The Washington Times, Takimag.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Human Events, Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, FrontPageMagazine.com, etc.

Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture (1999-2009). Since 2000 Director of The Rockford Institute's Center for International Affairs.

TV appearances on CNN, CBC, Russia Today, BBC, the Ollie North Show (MSNBC), SkyNews, etc.

Filmography: major appearances in the nationally distributed Islam: What the West Needs to Know (2006 - available on Youtube) and TV documentary International Criminal Court: Injustice for All (2001).

Speaking schedule in 2008-2009 included addressing audiences in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, and all over the United States.

Consultant for President Kostunica of Yugoslavia (2000-2001); Expert witness to the Canadian House of Commons (2000), to the U.S. House of Representatives (2000), and defense witness at The Hague Tribunal (ICTY, 2003 and 2008).

Voluntary work: Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation (London-Chicago-Ottawa); editor of Byronica, the quarterly newsletter of the Foundation.