 in history from the same institution (1988).He received his Ph.D. in history from the  in 1997 with the thesis "La France et la formation de la démocratie parlementaire en Serbie 1830–1914" (France and the Formation of Parliamentary Democracy in Serbia, 1830–1914).Bataković is a specialist for nineteenth- and twentieth-century Balkan history, as well as for the French-Serbian relations.