Dragnich, Alex N.

Biography

American political scientist; senior propaganda analyst, United States Department of Justice, 1942-1944; research analyst, United States Office of Strategic Services, 1944-1945; cultural attaché and public affairs officer, United States Embassy in Yugoslavia, 1947-1950.

Biographical Note

• 1912, February 22: Born, Republic, Washington
• 1938: BA, University of Washington (Phi Beta Kappa)
• 1939: MA, University of California (Berkeley)
• 1939: Author, The Assumptions of Democracy in the Light of Biological and Psychological Criticisms
• 1942 - 44 : Senior propaganda analyst, U.S. Department of Justice
• 1944 - 45 : Research analyst, U.S. Office of Strategic Services
• 1945: Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
• 1945: Author, The Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia, 1869-1889
• 1945 - 47 : Assistant Professor of Political Science, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
• 1947 - 1950 : Cultural Attache and Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy at Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• 1949: Co-author, Yugoslavia, 1949
• 1950 - 52 : Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
• 1952 - : Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
• 1954: Author, Tito's Promised Land
• 1955 - 56 : Ford Fellow, Harvard University
• 1956: Co-author, The Fate of East Central Europe
• 1958: Author, International Communism in Yugoslavia
• 1959 - 1960 : Chester Nimitz Professor, U.S. Naval War College
• 1961: Author, Major European Governments
• 1966: Co-author, Government and Politics
• 1974: Author, Serbia, Nikola Pasic, and Yugoslavia
• 1979 - 1980 : Book publications editor, Hoover Institution
• 1982: Author, Politics and Government
• 1983: Author, The First Yugoslavia
• 1984: Author, The Saga of Kosovo
• 1989: Author, Development of Parliamentary Government in Serbia
• 1992: Author, Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia

From the guide to the Alex N. Dragnich Papers, 1859-2000, (Hoover Institution Archives)