The extensive monograph discusses the life and political career of the prewar communist, the leader of the resistance movement during World War II, and the postwar Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito in the context of European and global history of the 20th century. Besides the importance of his character within Yugoslav internal and foreign politics, the author defines the role of his comrades and key political figures Edvard Kardelj, Aleksandar Ranković and Milovan Đilas, and describes their complex relationships and the consequences of their political decisions that determined the history of Yugoslavia. The book, which was originally published in Slovene, was translated also into Croatian (PIRJEVEC, Jože. Tito i drugovi. [Zagreb]: Mozaik knjiga, cop. 2012. [COBISS.SI-ID 2247891]) and Italian language.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1536440004
The article deals with the Yugoslav-Israeli secret cooperation between 1948 and 1953. Based on archival sources of the Yugoslav State Security Administration (UDB) and other historical sources, the author highlights the illegal transit of arms and aircraft for the Israeli Army over Yugoslavian territory during the First Arab-Israeli War, Israel's economic assistance to Yugoslavia during the Cominform conflict and the cooperation of Yugoslav and Israeli security services in the early 1950s. The key personalities of secret cooperations were Edo Brajnik, chief of the counterintelligence staff of the Yugoslav UDB, and Israeli agent Shaike Dan. The secret contacts between the two states are presented in the broader context of international politics in the Cold War.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1536272580
The article deals with the role of Yugoslavia in solving the Suez crisis and the echo of the 1956 Hungarian uprising in Slovenia/Yugoslavia. The author analyzes the Yugoslav ambitious policy of mediation between the conflicting parties and the press reporting on the hot Cold War in the context of complex domestic and international situation in the mid-1950s. The study is based on archival documents, newspaper sources, and the scientific literature. The article was published in the special issue of the scientific journal Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia (4/2014) entirely dedicated to the foreign policy and diplomacy of postwar Yugoslavia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537131972
The article deals with the establishment of the Yugoslav permanent representation to the United Nations in New York, and in particular the role of Slovene diplomats Joža Vilfan and Stane Krašovec. In addition to diplomatic activities, the author exposes the position of the Yugoslav diplomacy to major international problems at the beginning of the Cold War. The study is based on archival sources of the Archives of Yugoslavia, the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia and the Archives of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as other historical sources and relevant scientific literature.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2448595
The article analyzes the intense cooperation between the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the Austrian region of Carinthia and the Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia, which culminated in the establishment of the Working Community Alpe-Adria in 1978. Special emphasis is dedicated to the role of the Slovenian diplomats in the activities of the Working Community. With transnational methodology, which overcome national paradigms in questioning international relations, the author analyzes the dynamics of development on a subnational, regional level. The primary research focus is dedicated to the question whether the engagement of Slovenian diplomats in the Working Community was a part of autonomous, national diplomacy. The author notes that such activities were an integral part of the federal Yugoslav foreign policy – the successful case of the Working Community Alpe-Adria in overcoming European divisions was the result of both Slovenian and Yugoslav foreign policy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2444755