One of the main project objectives was the collection, analysis and publication of oral testimonies of former Slovene diplomats. Between 2012 and 2014, the head and the members of the project team conducted a series of in-depth interviews with Janez Stanovnik, Anton Vratuša, Bogdan and Marjan Osolnik; and Jože Pirjevec and Jure Ramšak edited them before publishing on-line. The interviews shed light on the contacts of Slovene partisans with other resistance movements during WWII, the postwar efforts of Slovene politicians, diplomats and experts for a revision of state borders, decision-making methods in Yugoslav foreign policy, the ideological bases and origins of the policy of non-alignment, special foreign policy interests of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, and other issues related to the engagement of Slovenes forming the Yugoslav diplomatic corps. The on-line collection of critically edited oral testimonies is an important source for further research into Slovene diplomatic history accessible to other researchers into the Slovene and Yugoslav diplomatic past.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
As a guest editor of the scientific journal Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia, the project team member Mateja Režek collected and edited articles for a special issue (4/2014) entirely dedicated to Yugoslavia’s foreign policy and the role of Slovenes in Yugoslav diplomacy. She invited 18 Slovene and foreign experts in Yugoslavia’s diplomatic history to contribute their original scientific articles presenting their latest researches. The articles shed light on the formation of the new Yugoslav diplomatic corps in the aftermath of WWII, the role of Yugoslavia in the UN Security Council and in the major crisis of the Cold War, the formation of Yugoslavia's non-aligned foreign policy and its ideological premises, bilateral relations with other countries, and the role of Slovene diplomats in the foreign policy of Yugoslavia. The special issue of the journal Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia is the most comprehensive and thematically completed scientific publications dealing with the Slovene/Yugoslav diplomatic history of the second half of the 20th century published in Slovenia.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
The international scientific conference “Tito's Yugoslavia as a Diplomatic Challenge of the 20th Century” (29 November 2012, Faculty of Humanities, Koper) was organized within this project. The conference saw the participation of 12 renowned experts in historiography and political science from Slovenia, Croatia, Russia and Great Britain, who presented their latest researches on Yugoslav foreign policy. The abstracts of the presented papers were edited by the project team members Gorazd Bajc and Monica Rebeschini and published in the publication Glasnik UP ZRS.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 50648162The paper, based on Amintore Fanfani's diaries, describes his attitude towards Yugoslavia as it was formed during his years at the top of Italian political life. It starts in the late 1940s and ends in the late 1970s, encompassing the period characterized by the quarrel related to the Trieste question. Fanfani was a staunch fighter for Italian interests but on the other hand he understood that the two countries should live together in a friendly neighborhood. As an economist he was also interested in the Yugoslav selfmanagement experiment, which he found complicated, but more democratic system than the capitalist one.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1536319428The paper sheds light on the cooperation between Yugoslavia and Israel, an issue previously unaddressed by Slovene historiography. Even if it has been partially dealt with by Serbian historians, they detected no secret ties between the two countries owing to the inaccessibility of the archive of the State Security Administration (UDB) in Belgrade. In Slovenia, the archive of the Slovene UDV is open to researchers and contains several documents related to the operation of the Yugoslav UDB. The analysis of these documents and other archival sources enabled the author to describe extensive secret cooperation between the two countries in the fields of politics, economy and intelligence services, which was often in stark contrast to the developments in the diplomatic arena.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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