ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people assisted us in the writing of this book. We would like to thank: Carol Archer, Natalie Chin, Dejan Djokić, Miša Djurković, Merima Dizdarević, Ivan Dodovski, Matthew Gibson, Goran Gretić, John Hines, Dejan Jović, Csaba G. Kiss, Denisa Kostoviceva, Paisley Livingstone, Alexander Maxwell, Christine Meng, Milivoje Pavlović, Slađana Pavković, Ruth Jordana Pison, Sarah Plant, Andrew Sewell, Boško Stankovski, Glenn Timmermans, Andrija Tomašek, Žarko Trajanovski, Annemari Ulamec, Mitja Velikonja, Ivo Žanić. Apart from those whose names we know, we would also like to thank the reviewers – who had to remain anonymous – of our essays on the Yugoslav anthem ‘Hey Slavs’ and the Serbian anthem ‘God of Justice’ (Nations and Nationalism, 2010), on the Croatian anthem ‘Our Beautiful Homeland’ (Nations and Nationalism, 2012), and on the Slovenian anthem ‘The Toast’ (Nationalities Papers, 2014).

Apart from people, a few academic institutions assisted in our research as well. The University of Macau provided research grants, which enabled the authors to travel to the Balkans and to engage research assistants, students of the University of Macau, who proved to be outstanding in their job. Macquarie University in Sydney provided travel funds for Aleksandar and the funds for the copyediting of the manuscript. Clare Hall, Cambridge and the Centre for the study of the Balkans at Goldsmiths, the University of London, provided an encouraging scholarly environment for Aleksandar to undertake the final revision of the manuscript.