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Slovakia in Transition to Independence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Reclaiming the Nation: Politics of Independent Slovakia -- What Kind of Democracy? -- Political Party System and Slovak Democracy -- Political and Ethnic Cleavages in Party Formation: 1993-1998 -- The 'state-forming' nation and minorities in Slovakia -- Politics of Language -- Seeking a Consensus: The 1998 Elections and New Prospects forDemocracy -- Coalition of Coalitions -- Political Structure Post-1998 -- A New Stage in Slovak Transition to Democracy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 National Communism in Yugoslavia: the case of Slovenia -- Diversity Within Unity: the Yugoslav System -- Yugoslav Communism -- Socialist Self-Management -- Failed Federalism -- Nationalities -- Federalism -- Political Disintegration of Yugoslavia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Independence and Democracy in Slovenia -- Defending Democracy and the Nation: 1987-1991 -- Democratisation as National Project -- Politics of Transition: Analysis of the Slovene Case -- The Role of Political Culture in Democratisation -- Historical Legacy -- Election Results and Coalitions Formation -- Legitimacy of the transition -- Does Nationalism Exclude the Possibility of Democracy? -- Ethnic policy of Slovenia -- Citizenship -- Ethnic Minorities -- Conclusion -- 7 National Identities in Post-Cold War Europe -- New World Order -- The New Agenda -- Universal Principles and Idiosyncratic Conflicts -- Globalisation -- Further perspectives on the 'global' -- Fragmentation of cultures -- Reconciling Sovereignty and Transnationality -- International Recognition -- National Identity and Foreign Policy-Making -- Europeanisation of Slovakia and Slovenia -- Slovakia and Slovenia - Differences -- Foreign Policy Failure: Slovakia -- Slovakia in Post-Cold War Central Europe -- Challenges and Key Elements of Foreign Policy: Slovakia and Slovenia