On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Slovenian independence, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Vienna, led by the Ambassador Andrej Rahten, together with Austrian institutions organized a scientific conference on the Austrian perception of independent Slovenia. The special issue of the journal Der Donauraum covers the articles of the renowned Slovenian and Austrian historians (Andrej Rahten, Wolfgang Mueller, Manfried Rauchensteiner, etc.), and summarizes the content of the above-mentioned conference.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 41126701International scientific conference dealt with the foreign policy aspects of Yugoslav crisis and the establishment of successor states. Unlike previous studies, focused mostly on the period of the escalation of the Yugoslav crisis and the outbreak of wars, it was this time the focus on a longer period and wider international arena. In addition to the formation of foreign policy of independent states that emerged on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, and the attitude of the great powers to them, the speakers also shed light on the republic's external activities, through which from the beginning of the 1980’s reflected the process of disintegration of Yugoslav Communist Party and the state by national principle. They analysed the reception of this process by the great powers and international associations, as well as the views of smaller European countries on the Yugoslav crisis. In addition to the activities of the exposed political and diplomatic personalities, the speakers also shed light on the role of paradiplomatic and transnational actors, which played an important, but little known role in the background of the diplomatic action. In the final part of the conference was held a round table with former Slovenian statesmen and diplomats, who shared their experiences and individual views on the foreign policy and diplomatic events of the time, and thus contributed to the clarification of some outstanding historiographical questions of this period.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 287587840As guest editors of the scientific journal Annales, Series historia et sociologia, the project team members Mateja Režek and Jure Ramšak collected and edited articles for the special issue of the journal (2017, 27, no. 4). They invited Slovenian and foreign experts in diplomatic history to contribute original scientific articles presenting their latest research. The articles shed light on various foreign policy aspects of Yugoslav crisis and the establishment of successor states.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 71952128The paper was dealing with economic relations between Socialist Republic of Slovenia as Yugoslavia’s most developed republic, the economy of which was generally more attached to Western countries, and sub-Saharan African countries in the 1970s and 1980s. In this period, several resolutions were issued both in Belgrade and in Ljubljana in order to open the domestic market, strengthen scientific cooperation, and provide technical assistance to developing countries. The author presented several cases of Slovenian enterprises, which started their own business or launched joint ventures on the initiative of African leaders with close relations with Yugoslav President Tito. On the one hand, there were a considerable number of non-profit investments, while on the other hand, new forms of economic cooperation were often seen by “socialist managers” as merely a way to find new markets and buy cheap raw materials.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538825924The lecture highlighted the relations among the Slovenian and broader Yugoslav political leaderships with the Cabinet of the Secretary-General of the UN through a correspondence kept in the fond of Javier Perez de Cuellar in New York. The UN, which became involved in the developments in Yugoslavia relatively late, was promptly being informed and asked to intervene throughout the independence process by the diplomats of the newly independent republics. Contrary to the expectations, the UN under the leadership of De Cuellar took over a more visible role in the process of disintegration rather late.
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