Europeans from the start? : Slovenia and Croatia between state-building, national identity and the European Union

Bojinović Fenko, Ana (author), Keil, Soeren (author), Šabič, Zlatko (author)

The article draws on Hansen and Wæver’s three-layered framework of state-nation-Europe, and applies it to Slovenia and Croatia. The aim is to examine how nation- and state-building affect these countries’ Europeanization before and after EU accession. The novelty of the contribution is the specific attention paid to the post-Yugoslav space as a reference for nation- and state-building. Our findings underline that the Slovenian and Croatian state-nation concept and its relationship to Europe are not per se fixed frames, but are fluid attitudes, prone to change and reaffirmation. We also establish a comparative difference between domestic and relational Europe layer for the two states.

• Language: English
• Keywords: state-building, nation-building, Europeanization, survey mode, post-Yugoslav space, Slovenia, Croatia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 136-155
• Numbering: Vol. 17, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-144406
• UDC: 321.01(497.4+497.5):061.1EU
• ISSN on article: 1750-2985
• DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2022.2162674
• COBISS.SI-ID: 141772547
• Publication date in RUL: 20.02.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of intervention and statebuilding
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1750-2985
• COBISS.SI-ID: 522189849

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Evropska unija, nacija, država, nacionalizem, Slovenija, Hrvaška