Cooperative security in Europe and Slovenia

Juvan, Jelena (author), Csanyi, Peter (author)

This article examines cooperative security as a strategic alternative to traditional power-centric models within European security policy. Focusing on the European continet and employing Slovenia as a case study, it highlights how cooperative frameworks–emphasizing interdependence, multilateralism, and preventive diplomacy–contribute to regional stability and resilience. The analysis underscores the agency of small states in shaping security outcomes through institutional engagement and policy specialization. The article advocates for the revitalization of cooperative mechanisms to address emerging threats and rebuild trust in the evolving European security architecture.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Common Security and Defence Policy
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Geographic coverage: Slovenija
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 57-71, 125
• Numbering: 27, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-174657
• UDC: 355.02(497.4+4)
• ISSN on article: 2463-9575
• DOI: 10.2478/cmc-2025-0005
• COBISS.SI-ID: 247355395
• Publication date in RUL: 08.10.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sodobni vojaški izzivi
• Publisher: Generalštab Slovenske vojske
• ISSN: 2463-9575
• COBISS.SI-ID: 284712704

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Kolektivna varnost v Evropi in Sloveniji

Abstract

Članek obravnava kolektivno varnost kot strateško alternativo tradicionalnim modelom, osredotočenim na moč, v okviru evropske varnostne politike. Osredotoča se na Evropo in uporablja Slovenijo kot primer študije, pri čemer poudarja, kako okviri sodelovanja, ki poudarjajo medsebojno odvisnost, multilateralizem ter preventivno diplomacijo, prispevajo k regionalni stabilnosti in odpornosti. Analiza poudarja vlogo malih držav pri oblikovanju varnostnih rezultatov prek institucionalnega sodelovanja in specializacije politik. Članek zagovarja oživitev mehanizmov sodelovanja za obravnavanje nastajajočih groženj in ponovno vzpostavitev zaupanja v razvijajočo se evropsko varnostno arhitekturo.

• Keywords: Evropska unija, NATO, Evropska varnostna in obrambna politika, mednarodna varnost, male države, Slovenija skupna varnostna in obrambna politika

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Project number: VEGA 1/0842/21
• Name: Development of cooperative security and the position of the Slovak Republic