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Laslo Sekelj studied philosophy, political science, and sociology at the Universities of Belgrade, Berlin , and Zagreb. His Ph.D. in sociology is from the University of Zagreb (1983). He published a number of studies and articles on inter-ethnic tensions and Jewish identity in Yugoslavia. For many years he was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. As a member of the dissident “Praxis” group he was denied the right to teach.
He specialized in the study of Yugoslav self-management. In his major book, published in English: “Yugoslavia: the Process of Disintegration”, he analyzed the different stages in the development of self-management and its demise. Another area of his specialization was the study of anarchism.
He directed a long-term project devoted to comparative aspects of the trasformation process of the formerly Communist European countries
In recent years he was a senior research fellow of the Belgrade Institute for European Studies, and spent several years as an Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow and Guest-Professor at the University of Goettingen.