Božo Repe is the author of the first comprehensive biography of the first Slovenian president Milan Kučan. Significant part of the book is dedicated to the Kučan’s activity on the field of foreign policy, which was implemented through several channels during the independence process of Republic of Slovenia. In this context, he discusses about interpersonal relations with the other two actors in the area of international relations, Prime Minister L. Peterle and foreign minister D. Rupel. Several meeetings between Kučan and foreign statesmen and diplomats, such as F. De Michelis, F. Cossiga, H. D. Genscher, J. Santer, J. Delores, F. Mitterrand, J. Baker and »European troika«, are described in the book. The author also discusses about Kučan’s stance towards Slovenia’s succession to international treaties and the question of revision of Osimo agreements with Italy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 280164352
The article deals with economic relations between Yugoslavia (Slovenia) and developing countries in the 1970s and 1980s. According to the commitments made by Yugoslavia to the other Non-Aligned countries and to UNCTAD, several resolutions were issued both in Belgrade and in Ljubljana in order to open the domestic market, strengthen scientific cooperation, and provide technical assistance. Considering archival materials of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Committee for International Relations, the article shows how the official policy of cooperation with developing countries on a more equal basis was implemented in Yugoslavia’s most developed republic, the economy of which was generally more attached to Western countries. It focuses on the problems which occurred when Slovenian enterprises launched joint ventures, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, which were seen as the best example of new economic world order in the practice until the end of the 1980s.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538113988
The article deals with complexity and contradictory views of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and Slovenia's independence from the perspective of evaluation and self-evaluation of Slovenia's role in the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the then predictions and promises of Slovenian politicians of different ideological provenances. The author notes that under the influence of the media and politics mythicize views on independence are still dominant. At the same time he compares the discourses on the national question and democracy, and notes that the national question was raised before democracy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 57141346