Serge Trifkovic

Serge (Srdja) Trifkovic is an author, educator and foreign affairs analyst based in Chicago. From 1999 until January 2009 he was Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, published by The Rockford Institute. Since 2000 he has been Director of the Institute's Center for International Affairs.

Trifkovic has a BA (Hon) in international relations from the University of Sussex (UK), a BA in political science from the University of Zagreb (Croatia), and a PhD in history from the University of Southampton (UK).

In September 2002 Trifkovic published The Sword of the Prophet: Islam: History, Theology, Impact on the World. The book soon became a bestseller, favorably reviewed by The American Conservative, Booklist, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review Book Service, Chronicles, the Conservative Book Club, The Times of India, The Spectator (UK), and scores of other publications in the United States and abroad. (The Sword was published in Serbian by the SKZ in January 2007). The sequel, Defeating Jihad: How the war on terror may yet be won, in spite of ourselves, was published in 2006.

Trifkovic has authored, contributed chapters to, or edited six other books, including a major study of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Peace in the Promised Land: A Realist Scenario (2006), and a collection of essays published to mark the tenth anniversary of Clinton's NATO war against Serbia, Kosovo: The Score (2009). They were preceded by The Kosovo Dossier (Editor and Contributor, 1999) and Kosovo Under NATO (Toronto 2000). His 1998 study of the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Ustasa: Croatian Separatism and European Politics, has been favorably reviewed and widely quoted by academic historians specializing in the subject.

His filmography includes appearances in the nationally distributed Islam: What the West Needs to Know (2006 - see Trailer ) and a TV documentary, International Criminal Court: Injustice For All (2001).

Trifkovic maintains a continuous scholarly and journalistic publication record and his work has been widely translated in continental Europe. His articles have been published by The Times of London, US News & World Report, The Washington Times, The American Conservative, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Takimag.com, San Francisco Chronicle, The Plain Dealer, Human Events, FrontPageMagazine.com, Politika (Belgrade) etc. He has given over 300 electronic media interviews on foreign affairs since 1991, inc. BBC World Service, the Ollie North Show on MSNBC, CBC, CNN, SkyNews, the Voice of America, etc.

Maintaining a busy speaking schedule, in 2008 he has addressed audiences in Great Britain, India, Serbia, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Canada, and all over the United States.

Over the years Trifkovic has provided consulting services for President Vojislav Kostunica of Yugoslavia (2000-2001), to HRH Crown Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic (1992-1993), and to the Republika Srpska government (1993-95). He has provided expert testimony to the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa (2000), to the U.S. House of Representatives (2000), and as a witness at The Hague Tribunal (ICTY, 2003 and 2008). He is an invited speaker at dozens of conferences and symposia all over the world.