Perforated Democracy: Disintegration, State-building, Europeanisation and the Erased of Slovenia
Perforated Democracy: Disintegration, State-building, Europeanisation and the Erased of Slovenia

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the state-building process in Slovenia and the context of the specific phenomenon – the erasure that took place in Slovenia in the early 1990s. It reconstructs the socio-historic and political contexts in which the independence of Slovenia occurred. While describing the state-building process, the process of democratisation and the dilemmas about minority protection in Slovenia – including the distinction between the recognised “autochthonous” minorities and the non-recognised “new” minorities – it paves the ground for theoretical and sociological discussion of the “erased”. The theoretical discussion is based on the questions of human rights, nationalism and citizenship, both in its classic (nation-state) conception and its alternative forms such as global citizenship. Sociologically, it places the “erasure” into a broader frame of investigating the processes of democratisation and Europeanisation, thus highlighting the key factors that caused the perforation of Slovene democracy in its twenty years of independence.

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