Abstract
In the eight years after attaining its independence, Slovenia has accomplished several essential changes for the successful transition from an authoritarian to a democratic society and political system. One of the fundamental issues of this process of democratization concerns the formation of a new national security framework and, within this, the creation of a system which ensures the effective military defense of the country. Slovenia, which is a small, newly established European state, has since independence been confronted with a number of options concerning the military aspect of its national security. These options are as follows:
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the need for Slovenia to form its own armed forces and to rely upon collective systems of security;
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to gain the status of armed or non-armed neutrality;
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to sign defense agreements with other states;
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to enter the process of European integration and to achieve Slovene membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and/or the Western European Union (WEU); and
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a combination of two or more of the options mentioned above (Grizold, 1996:403).
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Grizold, A., Vegiè, V. (2001). Small States and Alliances: The Case of Slovenia. In: Reiter, E., Gärtner, H. (eds) Small States and Alliances. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13000-1_12
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