Ivo Banac worked at the Stanford University Department of History and Linguistics from 1972 to 1977, and then moved back to the East Coast to teach at Yale University.
13 Facts About Ivo Banac
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In 1990, Ivo Banac was accepted as an associate member in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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From 1990 onwards, Ivo Banac was active in Croatian politics.
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Ivo Banac expressed his criticism in a column written for Feral Tribune.
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Many were surprised to find Ivo Banac, who had a reputation of a maverick and independent intellectual, become the leader of the LS.
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Ivo Banac held that post for only a few months, until the SDP - the party with whom the LS was aligned - lost the election to a rejuvenated HDZ.
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Ivo Banac was elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2003 Croatian parliamentary election.
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Ivo Banac left the LS in February 2005 and was an independent representative in the Sabor for the rest of his term.
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Ivo Banac was publicly criticized for having allegedly mishandled public funds, by renting his personal apartment to himself as office space, as well as furnishing it with taxpayers money.
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Ivo Banac replied, to accusations that such actions constitute mishandling of public funds, that while "the data published in the media are correct, it is all a matter of interpretation, is the glass half full or half empty".
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Between 2007 and 2009, Ivo Banac was the President of the Croatian Helsinki Committee.
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Ivo Banac served as the director of the Council on European Studies at Yale University.
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Ivo Banac blamed World War II in Yugoslavia on the King Alexander dictatorship and stated that Communism caused much greater damage than fascism.