Kriza međunarodnih odnosa – studija slučaja: Hrvatska i Slovenija - granica u Istri
A CASE STUDY OF THE CRISIS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - CROATIA AND SLOVENIA AND THEIR BORDER IN ISTRIA

Summary/Abstract: The border zone of the newly formed countries is often subject to territorial claims of the other, neighboring country. The dispute now going on between Croatia and Slovenia and also the precedent for the manner in which Slovenia, a country member of the EU, provokes Croatia and obstructs the opening and closing of joining admission to negotiations and doing it, slows down the integration of Croatia in the territory of the modern European civilized system, is a complex process which has to be studied interdisciplinary, from the aspect field of humanistic and social sciences, acknowledging political processes which have, the last two decades, shaped the Croatian- Slovene relationships. The collapse of the communist system and the beginning of democratical changes of the 1990s with the disintegration of Yugoslavia resulted in the creation of independent countries like the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia, which have assumed the rights and obligations towards the international community. The border between Croatia and Slovenia was not a matter of dispute till both countries were a part of the federal Yugoslavia. The research questions; why was the border question in Istria put as an unbridgeable obstacle in the international relationships between Croatia and Slovenia and what conditioned the Slovene request for the modification of the state borders?

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