CONTEMPORARY BORDER DISPUTES IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN HISTORY AND EU-ENLARGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE SLOVENIAN-CROATIAN BORDER
CONTEMPORARY BORDER DISPUTES IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN HISTORY AND EU-ENLARGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE SLOVENIAN-CROATIAN BORDER

Summary/Abstract: Slovenian Croatian relations started degrading in 1991 when the former Yugoslav republics became independent states. For Slovenia, which only has 46 km of the Adriatic coast, the question of the maritime border is especially pressing. In Tito’s Yugoslavia the maritime borders between federal units were not specified, therefore they should be drawn anew. The author concentrates on the period before the first Yugoslav state. The reason for that is obvious: The Slovenian and Croatian nationalisms were formed in this period, and the administrative borders on the ground were demarcated by the Habsburg administration in the 18th and 19th century. In the second part of the article, the author tries to grasp the image of the border in Slovenian public sphere and the importance of the border in the last two decades for the Slovenian nationalism. The context of the EU was did not just help to solve the problem, it also complicated it.

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