He is currently a foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles,[1] and a politics professor at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Since 1990 he has held a PhD in modern history from the University of Southampton, and in 1991-1992 he pursued post-doctoral research on a Title VIII grant from the U.S. Department of State as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution in California.

[3][7] He has published op-eds and commentaries in The Times of London, the San Francisco Chronicle, the American Conservative,[8] the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Alternative Right Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.

[10] He has been an adjunct professor at the University of St Thomas in Houston, Texas (1996–1997), and, in August 1997, joined the faculty of Rose Hill College in Aiken, South Carolina.

[14] In June 2006, he was one of two dozen people who presented works at a symposium on the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945, co-organized by two Serbian institutions and held at Yad Vashem Center in Jerusalem.

[18] Trifković participated and was one of the principal speakers at the conference Preserving Western Civilization, organized by White separatist, Michael H. Hart,[19] held in Baltimore in 2009.

It was billed as addressing the need to defend "America's Judeo-Christian heritage and European identity", and included speakers such as Lawrence Auster, Peter Brimelow, Steven Farron, Julia Gorin, Lino A. Graglia, Henry C. Harpending, Roger D. McGrath, Pat Richardson, J. Philippe Rushton, and Brenda Walker.