Political Faces Of Slovenia

Author : Miro Hacek,Simona Kukovic,Marjan Brezovšek
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498565363

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Slovenian Politics and the State by Miro Hacek,Simona Kukovic,Marjan Brezovšek Pdf

Slovenia is regarded today as a free country and consolidated democracy, with some problems with corruption, independent media, and independent judiciary. Since its independence in 1991, Slovenia has put in place democratic institutions of state organization, undergone major capital rearrangements, and achieved both of the starting objectives of new international involvement by entering the EU and NATO. On January 1st, 2007, Slovenia was the first among former socialist countries to take on the common European currency. Slovenia has been subject to highly varying assessments during the construction of its democratic political system; it has been acknowledged as “a ripe democracy,” complete democracy,” or, alternatively, “apparent” or “virtual democracy.” The move negative assessments of the Slovenian political system are related to the persistence of authoritarian behavior patterns and manipulation of democratic institutions that have found its way into the structures of political parties. This book follows the Slovenian evolution from the second-smallest Yugoslav republic to one of the most successful post-communist countries in Central Europe.

Author : Niko Toš,Karl H. Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 3901941118

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Political Faces of Slovenia by Niko Toš,Karl H. Müller Pdf

Author : Igor Lukšič
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political culture
ISBN : IND:30000078195611

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Political system of the republic of Slovenia by Igor Lukšič Pdf

Author : Niko Toš,Karl H. Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128958779

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Political Faces of Slovenia by Niko Toš,Karl H. Müller Pdf

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139487504

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Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

The only textbook to provide a complete introduction to post-1989 Central and Southeast European politics, this dynamic volume provides a comprehensive account of the collapse of communism and the massive transformation that the region has witnessed. It brings together 23 leading specialists to trace the course of the dramatic changes accompanying democratization. The text provides country-by-country coverage, identifying common themes and enabling students to see which are shared throughout the area, giving them a sense of its unity and comparability whilst strengthening understanding around its many different trajectories. The dual thematic focus on democratization and Europeanization running through the text also helps to reinforce this learning process. Each chapter contains a factual overview to give the reader context concerning the region which will be useful for specialists and newcomers to the subject alike.

Author : Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj,Carole Rogel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461731757

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The A to Z of Slovenia by Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj,Carole Rogel Pdf

For more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "disassociation" from Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Slovenia had to fight for its independence, which it did not fully achieve until 1995 after its bloody disintegration with Yugoslavia was over. Since independence, however, Slovenia has prospered; its economy is far ahead of other former communist states and in 2004 Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the European Union, the only republic of former Yugoslavia to do so. The A to Z of Slovenia covers the history of Slovenia and its struggle to gain independence from communism. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

Author : Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj,Gregor Kranjc,Žarko Lazarevic,Carole Rogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111062

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Historical Dictionary of Slovenia by Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj,Gregor Kranjc,Žarko Lazarevic,Carole Rogel Pdf

The expanded third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Slovenia covers personalities and events that have made a mark on Slovenia in the more than a decade since the last edition. This includes new entries related to Slovenia’s first 13 years as a member of NATO and the EU, changing diplomatic relations with its neighbors and other global states and institutions, a new crop of politicians who have upended the political status quo, entries related to Slovenia’s worst 21st century recession (2008-2013), nationwide protests against corruption, and many other developments. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Slovenia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Slovenia.

Author : Kathleen Malley-Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1213 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780275996482

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State Violence and the Right to Peace by Kathleen Malley-Morrison Pdf

A thought-provoking revelation of the ways ordinary people—conquerors and conquered, imperialists and the colonized, Christians, Jews, and Muslims—think about war and peace. Filled with personal reflections from every corner of the globe, State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People is a masterful portrayal of how people from diverse cultures, religions, and experiences think about war and peace. Spanning four volumes, State Violence and the Right to Peace brings together the views of shopkeepers, day laborers, clerical workers, students, teachers, social workers, veterans, and others talking about governmental aggression, torture, and protesting acts of war. These views—from Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—are seen in the context of major historical battles, including the empire-building of Western European countries, the emergence and contraction of the Soviet Union, and the wars in the Middle East. As this remarkable resource shows, there are some surprising similarities in thinking about war and peace across nations and cultures—and some equally surprising cases where opinions diverge.

Author : John Corsellis,Marcus Ferrar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857716873

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Slovenia 1945 by John Corsellis,Marcus Ferrar Pdf

At the end of May 1945, 12,000 Slovenian soldiers boarded trains in Austria. They thought they were on their way to freedom in Italy. Their true destination was Slovenia, and death. One of the most moving and tragic diaspora stories of World War II, Slovenia 1945 follows the fate of a strongly Catholic and non-Communist community in Slovenia - including members of the anti-Communist Home Guard 'domobranci' - caught up in the maelstrom of war and politics in the Balkans in World War II and the problems of post-war settlement. Thousands of soldiers returned to face death and exile at the hands of their war-time enemies - Tito's Partisans - who had triumphed by the war's end. Six thousand more civilians narrowly escaped the same fate, after the intervention of Red Cross and Quaker aid workers. Yet the story of exile is also one of triumph as the surviving refugees built new lives in Argentina, the USA, Canada and Britain. In this unique book, the authors call on more than half a century of research and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell their stories. For the first time, the survivors tell their vivid tales of wartime cruelty, of reviving their battered community in refugee camps, and of their emigration to Argentina, the US, Canada and Britain building successful new lives through courage, self-help and strong cultural identity. Slovenia 1945 is a vivid, personal and deeply moving story of an episode that marked all those involved indelibly.

Author : Michal Bobek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782259893

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Central European Judges Under the European Influence by Michal Bobek Pdf

The onset of the 2004 EU enlargement witnessed a number of predictions being made about the approaches, capacity and ability of Central European judges who were soon to join the Union. Optimistic voices, foreshadowing the deep transformative power that Europe was bound to exercise with respect to the judicial mentality and practice in the new Member States, were intertwined with gloomy pictures of post-Communist limited formalism and mechanical jurisprudence that could not be reformed, which were likely to undermine the very foundations of mutual trust and recognition the judicial system of the Union is built upon. Ten years later, this volume revisits these predictions and critically assesses the evolution of Central European judicial mentality, institutions and constitutionality under the influence of the EU membership. Comparatively evaluating the situation in a number of Central European Member States in their socio-legal contexts, notably Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania, the volume offers unique insights into the process of (non) Europeanisation of national legal systems and cultures.

Author : John K. Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134478989

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Slovenia by John K. Cox Pdf

This book examines Slovenia's transition from a collection of provinces in the south of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to an independent state. It also analyses political and economic developments since 1991.

Author : Aleksander Lorenčič
Publisher : Založba ZRC
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789610505693

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From Dreams Of 'A Second Switzerland' To Capitalism Without A Human Face by Aleksander Lorenčič Pdf

Tri desetletja samostojne države so vsekakor doba, ko lahko podamo mnenje o tranzicijskem procesu, ki se je na formalni ravni končal z vstopom v EU, tudi z zgodovinskega gledišča. Če se je vse do formalnega zaključka slovensko gospodarsko tranzicijo označevalo zlasti kot zgodbo o uspehu, so po letu 2004 v ospredje vse bolj stopala vse prej kot pozitivna mnenja in ocene. Knjiga obravnava osrednje procese gospodarske tranzicije, ki so spremenili gospodarsko sestavo, jo učvrstili in posodobili do te mere, da je slovensko gospodarstvo lahko hitreje dohitevalo razviti svet. Cilji avtorjevega zgodovinskega iskanja in spraševanja so pot v tranzicijo, vstopanje Slovenije v različne mednarodne integracije, makroekonomska stabilizacija, privatizacija in prestrukturiranje gospodarstva. Osvetli tudi problematiko regionalnega razvoja in razloge, zaradi katerih v obravnavanem obdobju ni prišlo do zmanjševanja medregionalnih razlik. Posebno pozornost namenja tudi gospodarski kriminaliteti, ki je tako posameznikom, kot podjetjem in državi povzročala veliko škode. Avtor v argumentirani pripovedi predstavi tudi značilnosti in dosežke procesa gospodarske preobrazbe v Srbiji ter na Hrvaškem, Češkem, Madžarskem in Poljskem.

Author : Alina Zubkovych
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783838269436

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Dealing with the Yugoslav Past by Alina Zubkovych Pdf

This book analyzes the representation of the socialist past in the national history museums of the former Yugoslavia. Through travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the process of constructing the national narratives that maintain and legitimize a particular vision of the common past. Cross-national comparison allows for analysis of the democratic development of each state in relation to the politics of memory in the region and the role of political actors in its construction.

Author : Beata Huszka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134687916

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Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict by Beata Huszka Pdf

This book analyses how national independence movements’ rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state. Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians interpret events and present arguments with the intention to mobilize their constituencies for independence. With in-depth case studies on the Slovenian, the Croatian and the Montenegrin independence movements, and by looking at cases from Indonesia and Spain, the author investigates how rhetoric affect internal ethnic relations during secession and how events and debate shape each other. The author demonstrates how in some cases of self-determination elites push for a higher level of sovereignty in the name of economic advancement, whereas in other cases, self-determination movements refer to ethnic identity and human rights issues. Explaining how and why certain discourses dominate some independence movements and not others, Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, nationalism, ethnic conflict and discourse analysis.

Author : Darja Piciga,Alexander Schieffer,Ronnie Lessem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317115533

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Integral Green Slovenia by Darja Piciga,Alexander Schieffer,Ronnie Lessem Pdf

Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer's Integral Green Society and Economy series has three overarching aims. The first is to link together two major movements of our time, one philosophical, the other practical. The philosophical movement is towards what many today are calling an 'integral' age, while the practical is the 'green' movement, duly aligned with that of sustainable development. The second is to blend together elements of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, politics and economics, thus serving to bring about an 'integral green' vision, albeit with a focus on business and economics. As such, the authors transcend the limitations to sustainable development and environmental economics, which are overly ecological, if not also technological, in orientation, and exclude social and cultural elements. Thirdly, this particular volume, with Darja Piciga, focuses specifically on Slovenia, as well as on Europe generally, drawing on the particular issues and capacities that this country and continent represents, particularly for sustainable development and social knowledge-based economy. The emphasis on Slovenia arose, not only because it lies at the heart of Europe, but because a specific movement for an Integral Green Slovenian Society and Economy, has been co-evolved there, by the three editors in conjunction with Slovene organisations, communities and movements, with a view to integrating existing and emerging knowledge resources, initiatives and practices into a model, as an alternative to austerity, for Slovenia and other European countries.