Mission and vision

THE IVO ANDRIĆ INSTITUTE

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Informal geopolitical think tank

While Yugoslavia was in euphoria over the football match with Brazil on those days, 12th and 13th June 1974, IVO ANDRIĆ, the great Croatian poet and thinker, legendary writer and clairvoyant geopolitician, had national concerns.

He had arrived for a week on his last visit to Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, to leave a sign of the great secret he had suspected.

A secret about the country, which would only 15 years later “become bloody public”. He confided it to Ljubo Jandrić, explaining why he had not finished the novel Omer-paša Latas. This conversation, conducted in silence, represents a kind of testamentary act, a symbolic transfer of Andrić’s insight to the time yet to come.

“Another bard will come
And he will sing what
What my soul feels
When the evening bell rings”

Ivo Andrić, in Sarajevo, June 12, 1974

“There is no emperor next to my emperor,
no girl next to my girl”

Ivo Andrić, on the Buna River, near the birthplace of Katarina Kosača Kotromanić, the last Bosnian queen-mother, June 13, 1974

Therefore, anyone who wants to experience this premonition should carefully read all the chapters of the novel, but also Ljubo Jandrić’s book, “With Ivo Andrić”, in relation to that period of Andrić’s life. The full picture can only be had, together.

As a Croat from Bosnia, he was fundamentally formed through the values ​​of Western civilization, but also had a deep insight into Islamic and Eastern Orthodox civilization.

Although Andrić is not a classic geopolitician like Halford Mackinder, his unique literary work and the foreboding of a geopolitical visionary have relevance for understanding the geopolitical and civilizational dynamics of the modern world, helping to make the right decisions, at the national, European and global level.