Institute for Historical Studies, SRC Koper
Research projects
The most recent research projects include Rural and Urban Primorska: Social, Economic and Legal Relations from the Old Order to Modernization (led by Darko Darovec) and Problems of the History of Slovenian-Italian Relations (led by Egon Pelikan).
The older topics cover a wide range of approaches - from methodological ones (Methodological Problems in the Philosophy of History and its Cultural Effects under the Aspect of the Idea of Europe led by Jože Pirjevec in 2007) and issues of ethnic border and migration (Slovene Western Ethnic Border, Population and Migrations, 6–20th century led by Boris M. Gombač and concluded in 2003), to the focused research of regional history through the documents on secret diplomacy and intelligence services (Anglo-American Secret Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: the Case of the Primorska Region and Friuli, 1940–1947 led by Gorazd Bajc, 2008; and Geopolitical Interests of Intelligence Services in Western Slovenia during the Interwar Period that was led by Egon Pelikan and concluded in 2007).