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Dr. sc. Laurent HASSID Chercheur associé à E.E.E (Europe, Européanité, Européanisation) Université Bordeaux 3 Nation and State in Slovenia: the Issue of the Citizenship Ph.D. Abstract By its parliamentary political system guaranteed by the Constitution soon after its independance (June 25th 1991), with its convincing results with performing economy rates and by its perception of Human Rights, particularly as it concerns Italian and Hungarain minorities, Slovenia has often been presented as the apt pupil of the former Yugoslavia, even when compared to the other former European communist states. This 361 pages work, consists of three parts and tries to show a more complicated realistic view. The first part studies historical and geographic limits of the Slovenian territory. The four states which border Slovenia (Austria on the north, Hungary on the east, Croatia on the south and Italy on the west) often brought their domination to it. The Habsbourg dynasty was established in Carniola, Styria and Carinthia from the 14th century to 1918 and the Venetian republic occupied the coast until 1797. In the 20th century, Slovenians thought the incorporation of their nation into a Slav country with Serbs and Croats could protect them against Austrian and Italian inclinations. But the annexion of Carinthia to Austria in 1920, the conquest of Western Slovenia by Mussolini’s forces (1919-1945) and the restoration of Trieste to Italy in 1954 sparked ...