Davor Božinović (; born 27 December 1961) is a Croatian diplomat and politician who serves as

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

and

Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia The deputy prime minister of Croatia (officially the Vice President of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, ) is the official deputy of the Prime Minister of Croatia. Article 109 of the Constitution of Croatia states that the cabinet is t ...

since 2017. He previously served as

Minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

from 2010 to 2011. Born in

Pula Pula, also known as Pola, is the largest city in Istria County, west Croatia, and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istria, Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, wi ...

in a family descended from

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, to a father who was a Yugoslav naval officer, Božinović graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences, where he was a mentor to . He specialized in , a distinctly Yugoslav

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

concept of popular mobilization for

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defense/insurgency and civil protection, earning

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and

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. In 1987, Božinović joined Socialist Croatia's Ministry of Defence. He served as an Ambassador of Croatia to

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from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed as Head of the Office of the

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Stjepan Mesić Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatia, Croatian lawyer and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minis ...

. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Head of Mission of the Republic of Croatia to

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. In September 2008, he was appointed State Secretary for

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at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MVPEI), and in July 2009 as State Secretary for Political Affairs at the same ministry.

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