Jovana Lazic

This book project is a comparative study of military occupations during the Balkan Wars and First World War, from 1912-1918—a formative period in both Balkan and global history. It combines an analysis of imperial and national occupying regimes—Habsburg, Serbian, Bulgarian—with a microhistorical study of everyday life under occupation, drawing on a wide range of state and local archival sources. It integrates this central Balkan experience into the broader history of the war and positions the Balkans as a crucial laboratory for the conduct and experience of modern military occupation, showing the region's fundamental importance for understanding global war studies.