• Publisher: *cf.
• 308 pages
• Author: Carlos González-Villa
• Original title: Nova država za nov svetovni red: mednarodni vidiki osamosvojitve Slovenije

This book examines the processes of Slovenia gaining its independence from the viewpoint of the transformations in the global system and the politics of world powers. The author analyses how the internal contradictions in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia developed and how external factors influenced these processes, especially the US policies towards the Eastern Bloc. As long as the US in the 1980s assessed that the Soviet Union was strong enough to intervene in the Balkans, they endeavoured to prevent the collapse of Yugoslavia. When they assessed that the Eastern Bloc would fall, they started playing a double game: the US declaratively supported the unity of a reformed Yugoslavia, while quietly promoting the separatist opposition in order to economically and politically control the individual successor states after the disintegration of the Yugoslav federation. The book brings an original analysis of Slovenia gaining its independence, numerous new facts, and a demystification of the nationalistic narrative. 

About the author

Carlos González-Villa

Carlos González-Villa (1986) is a Spanish-Venezuelan researcher of nationalisms in the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia, US foreign policy, geopolitics and the analysis of the world system. He is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo.