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Contemporary Military Challenges, September 2019 – 21/No. 3
KO MAJHNO POSTANE VELIKO – SLOVENIJA 
IN NJENIH PETNAJST LET V NATU
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WHEN SMALL BECOMES BIG – FIFTEEN 
YEARS OF SLOVENIA IN NATO
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Abstract
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per se
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realize their own national interests. 
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World Order. The term Cooperative Security became a catch phrase for a rather idealistic approach to the 
swiftly changing international climate.” (Cohen and Mihalka 2001, p 4).
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policymakers to describe the part of the Balkan Peninsula that has remained outside both the North Atlantic 
Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia) together with Albania, which was emerging from international isolation. 
Key words
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to convince powerful countries of its relevance. There are numerous appropriate 
 1 FROM YUGOSLAVIA TO NATO
in comparison with the collapse of the Soviet Union if the republics had succeeded 
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as a whole. 
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within the Alliance. 
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Macedonia by 25 January 2019 and went into force on 12 February 2019, replacing the interim accord of 1995. 
Macedonia (European Western Balkans, 2019).
The mission is to advise the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s Government Authorities on military 
support to NATO-led operations within the Balkans Joint Area of Operations. As of April 1 2012, the mission’s 
Skopje, 2019).
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We recognize and welcome the positive progress the country has made in improving interethnic relations since 
the signature of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The Agreement and relevant constitutional provisions remain 
indispensable to building a peaceful, just and cohesive multiethnic society (OSCE, 12 August 2010).
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republics. 
9 The area of the Western Balkans could geographically even be considered as being within NATO.
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Tallinn precondition’ was launched in 
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the Alliance. The spectrum of the support has encompassed various measures and 
10 Joint press point with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of the Republic of Slovenia, 
Borut Pahor. NATO, 20 February 2019. 
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4.  Oxford Bibliographies. 
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Croatia-Slovenia border disputes. 
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