- Complex elaboration of the extant theoretical strategies concerning democratic transition and its consolidation; - Identification of the most exposed and salient aspects of the transformation of modern political society due to globalisation, in particular with a view to the processes of globalisation of democracy on the one hand and democratization of globalisation on the other; - Mapping the relations and interactions between national and European identity (aspects of cohabitation, sinergy and conflict); - Critical reflection of the key sociological and cultural concepts and paradigms; - Elaboration of methodological apparatus of intercultural studies and building of substantial, categorical and terminological basis of sinology as a new discipline in Slovenia.