EVROPEIZACIJA SLOVENSKE ZUNANJE POLITIKE: OD PRIDRUŽITVENEGA PROCESA DO PREDSEDOVANJA SVETU EU. (Slovenian)

THE EUROPEANISATION OF SLOVENIAN FOREIGN POLICY: FROM ACCESSION TO PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EU Key words: Europeanisation, Slovenian foreign policy, Western Balkans. (English)

The article analyses Slovenian foreign policy in relation to European foreign policy by using the concept of Europeanization, It looks at the decade leading to Slovenia's accession to the European Union (EU) and at the first four years of its membership. After setting out the analytical framework for studying Europeanization in foreign policy, the article presents in parallel both dimensions of Europeanization (bottom-up and top-down) in Slovenian foreign policy. The article focuses on: (i) organizational structures (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); (ii) the major contours of fundamental foreign policy relations (Western Balkans); and (iii) some practices and principles (as well as values) which guided Slovenia's foreign policy during its accession period and in the first years of its membership in the EU. The article shows that both dimensions of Europeanization are present in Slovenian foreign policy, although it was not until Slovenia held the presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2008 that it actively co-operated in and co-shaped European foreign policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Članek s pomočjo uporabe koncepta evropeizacije analizira slovensko zunanjo politiko v odnosu do evropske zunanje politike v desetletju pred vstopom Slovenije v Evropsko unijo (EU) in v prvih š tirih letih č lanstva v EU. Zastavljen je tako, da po uvodni opredelitvi analitič nega okvira evropeizacije vzporedno predstavlja dve razsežnosti evropeizacije (od spodaj navzgor in obratno) v slovenski zunanji politiki. Osredotoč i se na (i) organizacijske strukture (Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve), (ii) glavne premise temeljnih zunanjepolitiš nih odnosov (Zahodni Balkan) ter (iii) nekatere prakse in nač ela (in vrednote), ki so vodile izvajanje zunanjepolitike Slovenije v obdobju njenega približ evanja EU in v prvih letih č lanstva. Članek sicer pokaŽe na obstoj obeh razsežnosti v evropeizaciji slovenske zunanje politike, vendarje Slovenija šele v obdobju predsedovanja Svetu EU v prvi polovici leta 2008 aktivno sodelovala pri evropski zunanji politiki injo sooblikovala. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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