Marko Attila Hoare

Marko Attila Hoare (born 1972) is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about the current affairs of Southeast Europe, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus.

Hoare is the son of the British translator Quintin Hoare and the Croatian journalist and historian Branka Magaš. In his early articles, he signed his name simply as 'Attila Hoare', but since 1999 his articles have been signed Marko Attila Hoare. He is a regular contributor to the Bosnian Institute, UK and other academic publications.

Hoare has been studying the history of the former Yugoslavia since 1993. In the summer of 1995, he acted as translator for the humanitarian aid convoy to the Bosnian town of Tuzla, organised by Workers' Aid for Bosnia, a movement of solidarity in support of the Bosnian people. His degrees in History are a BA (1994) (later converted to an MA) from the University of Cambridge and a MPhil (1997) and PhD from Yale University (2000).

In 1998–2001, he lived and worked in Belgrade, Serbia, and was resident there during the Kosovo War of 1999, and worked a war crimes investigator at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where he participated in the drafting of the indictment against Milošević. Subsequently Hoare was a research assistant at the Bosnian Institute in London (founded by his father Quintin), a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a research fellow of the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge, He has been Reader at Kingston University in London since 2006.

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