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Slovenia’s Foreign Policy Opportunities and Constraints: The Analysis of an Interplay of Foreign Policy Environments

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  • Fenko Ana Bojinović

    (Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

  • Šabič Zlatko

    (Professor of International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Abstract

The article focuses on the interconnectedness of foreign policy environments to explain Slovenia’s opportunities and constraints for foreign policy action. During the period of pre-independence para-diplomacy, the building of an internal and external domestic environment successfully turned constraints (no international recognition) into opportunities (applying for membership of European and global intergovernmental organizations). In the second period - post-recognition - considering the absence of a strategic foreign policy document, the Slovenian internal foreign policy environment became a major constraint to seize foreign environment opportunities. This affected Slovenia’s accomplishments, notably after NATO and EU memberships were achieved in 2004. Although the Slovenian internal environment matured during the following period to adopt, in 2015, a comprehensive foreign policy strategy the recent turn in world politics (especially the European financial and economic crisis and the migration crisis) created for the first time a foreign environment for Slovenia that offered many fewer opportunities and far more constraints.

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  • Fenko Ana Bojinović & Šabič Zlatko, 2017. "Slovenia’s Foreign Policy Opportunities and Constraints: The Analysis of an Interplay of Foreign Policy Environments," Croatian International Relations Review, Sciendo, vol. 23(79), pages 41-71, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:cinrer:v:23:y:2017:i:79:p:41-71:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/cirr-2017-0014
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