The paper is analyzing the contemporary processes inside border areas. Due to different political destinies trough near past, the distinct border sectors developed various types of borderlands: mainly open and structurally asymetric in the west and north and close-like and symetric on the east. The border toward Croatia is the youngest and therefore still in turbulent accomodation to the border situations. The paper take special attention to recent spatial processes: from close and rich crossborder cooperation to ignorance or abandonding of planning measures and avoidance. Second main attention is taken to the minorities settled inside borderlends and their influence to borderlands.
The contribution explains the historical development of the political boundaries of Slovene states and the creation of minorities as political bodies in Slovenia and in the neighboring countries, as well as the creation of Slovene Diasporas in Europe and around the world. The ethnic development of Slovenes can only be understood within the context of the general ethno-national, political-territorial and socio-economic processes in Europe since the beginning of 19th century. In the treatise, we deal with ethnic minorities and minority policies as typical political heritage of Europe: the destiny, problem and challenge, but an advantage as well. Due to the size and importance of minorities, Slovenia count to the minority sensible countries. Legal and actual Protection of autochthonous minorities in Slovenia is normatively wide and realized consistently, while Slovene minorities in neighboring countries have much worse formal-political baseline.
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