Biography - Šćekić Radenko

Phd. Radenko Šćekić was born on 20 September 1978 in Bijelo Polje, where he finished Elementary School, in a way that he completed the seventh and eighth grade within one year. Then, also in Bijelo Polje, he finished High School at the Department for electrical engineering in secret telecommunications with highest grades, and afterwards (in 1997) he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic, Department of History and Geography.  

 He gained a University degree of Teacher of History and Geography from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic in 2001, as the first one in generation who completed studies within regular 4-years timeframe.  

Then in 2003, he enrolled paralelly at two Postgraduate Studies, at which by mid 2005 he managed to pass all exams.

  One of Postgraduate Studies is in History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, where he passed all the exams with average grade 9.20, and preparation of Master Thesis ongoing now.

  Another Postgraduate studies that he took are European and Southeast Europe   Postgraduate Studies at the  International Studies Center of the University of Montenegro, which as a multidisciplinary studies were composed of 4 modules (groups of subjects) in following  fields: Law,  European Integrations, Economy, History. At these studies, after having passed all the exams, he started working on thesis named "Development and means of political propaganda" which was defended with the grade "A" in November 2006 at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Podgorica.  

    He finished working on doctorate at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade under the mentorship of prof. Dr. Zoran Slavujević, december 2010. The name of the thesis/work is "Political Propaganda in Montenegro in period 1988 – 2000”  

  As a scholar of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia, upon the invitation of Professor Dr. Josip Rastko Močnik, he spent 18 months at the Faculty of Social  Sciences in Ljubljana, working on the research in the field of political marketing and media and  political psychology.  

   He was invited to exploring the Croatian Institute of History and Political Science in Zagreb (2010.). In the period of four years (2005-2009.) Served as Secretary of the Editorial Board of scientific journals “Historical records”, and the 2009th was elected a secretary of the Association Internationale of Montenegro Études du Sud-Est Europeen, Paris. He is member of the Publishing Council of the magazine "Media Dialogues". On several occasions, he was a member and president of the Commission, the Directorate of the Ministry for Culture of the Government of Montenegro.

Area of interest: political history, political propaganda, political marketing, spin doctoring, the media, political psychology, geopolitics;