Abstract
The paper deals with the emergence of the sovereign Republic of Slovenia and disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Significant qualitative milestones of these processes was the approval of the new Constitution of 1974, the death of Josip Broz Tito, the superiority of the Republic's law, the Ten-Day War, and finally declared independence of the Republic of Slovenia and recognition of its sovereignty by the rest of the former Yugoslavia.
The reasons for disintegration should not be sought only in Yugoslavia itself but also in the international situation of that time. The issue of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and establishment of the Republic of Slovenia is viewed through the lens of liberal theory of international relations.