20.500.12556/RUL-179676 The discursive making of a neighbor: shifting geopolitical representations of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovenia This article examines the evolution of Slovenia’s geopolitical imagination regarding the post-Yugoslav space from the 1980s to the present through the lens of critical geopolitics. It traces how dominant Slovenian geopolitical representations of this area have evolved over time and argues that these shifts were primarily shaped by transformation in Slovenian political and economic goals. The article examines which geopolitical representations prevailed in different periods, how they were constructed, and why they underwent transformation. The analysis identifies four historical-geopolitical phases: the late socialist period, characterized by discursive differentiation from other Yugoslav republics; the post-independence period, during which the former Yugoslavia was largely tabooed as part of Slovenia’s European identity construction; the post-EU-accession phase, marked by a patronizing rediscovery of the Western Balkans; and a more recent phase in which narratives of Slovenian discursively articulated superiority have been increasingly challenged, giving rise to a more complex and interdependent geopolitical imagination. critical geopolitics geopolitical imagination Slovenia former Yugoslavia Western Balkans kritična geopolitika geopolitična domišljija Slovenija nekdanja Jugoslavija Zahodni Balkan true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Licenca CC BY 4.0 je navedena na spletni strani revije. Članek v reviji 2026-02-19 13:50:50 2026-02-19 13:50:53 2026-02-21 03:58:13 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 115-134 No. 53 2025 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 911.3:32(497.1:479.4)"1980-2026" 2303-8950 10.35666/23038950.2026.53.115 268684547 RAZ_Rogelj_Bostjan_2025.pdf RAZ_Rogelj_Bostjan_2025.pdf 1 9F0C49AD8FF5F163356133FF1A5255FB a0ce8999de44fe59d09664db3e69b875f23f185493d033de25bf4d39a0348410 56e0c890-0d92-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=228450 http://www.geografskipregled.pmf.unsa.ba/index.php/geographical-review-no-53-2025?start=5 1 60557294-0d91-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=228449 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0