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Books Balkan babel, The three Yugoslavias, Thinking about Yugoslavia, Gender Politics in the Weste, Nihil Obstat: Religion Similar Danica Fink Hafner, Gordana Crnković, Christine Ingebritsen, Slobodan Milošević | ||
Sabrina Petra Ramet (born June 26, 1949, London) is an American academic, educator, editor and journalist. She is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
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Ramet is also a Senior Associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War as well as a Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre in Koper, Slovenia. She has written more than 90 journal articles and contributed chapters to various scholarly collections, as well as 12 scholarly books. Her translation of Viktor Meier's book, Wie Jugoslawien verspielt wurde, was published by Routledge in July 1999 in English as Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise.
One of Ramet's early books, Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (1997), was reviewed in Terrorism and Political Violence. A 2006 book, The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005, was reviewed in The American Historical Review, Foreign Affairs, East European Politics and Societies and The Journal of Modern History. In 2008, historian Dejan Djokic called Ramet "undoubtedly the most prolific scholar of the former Yugoslavia writing in English".
Education
Ramet was educated at Stanford University, the University of Arkansas, and UCLA. She earned her PhD from UCLA in 1981.
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Personal life
Ramet became a US citizen in 1966, and served in the US Air Force from 1971-75.