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Abstract
American secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld's characterisation in early 2003 of an ‘Old Europe’ and a ‘New Europe’, provides particular challenges when applied to the exploration of European security.The ‘New Europe’ is a very elusive concept. As far as the Iraq war is concerned, the ‘New European’ states have less in common than the US secretary of defence might have thoughtThis is indicated by an exploration of specific factors that have affected the attitudes of supposed ‘New European’ states towards the Iraq war in general, and towards their own security in particular. Slovenia is particularly interesting in this regard, as a country that found it especially hard to address the ‘New‐Old’ Europe dilemma. A theoretical framework for the analysis of this aspect of contemporary European diplomacy can be constructed on the basis of the two main positivist (rational) theories of International Relations: realism and liberalism, although neither offers any conclusive explanation of the post‐cold war division in Europe as constructed by Rumsfeld.
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