Institute for Historical Studies, SRC Koper
Research projects
The most recent and current projects carried out by the institute explore diverse themes, such as rebellious survival strategies utilised in the Slovene territory; Slovenian-Italian cross-border relations; the impact of modernity on the rural areas of the Primorska region; and Slovenes in Yugoslav diplomacy from 1941 to 1980.
The older research projects have similarly covered 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, 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 led by Egon Pelikan, concluded in 2007).