At His Crossroad

Igor Kovac is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cincinnati. His dissertation develops a new theory of persistence imbalance of power – Pervasive Hegemony. Kovac received his MAIS at Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 2012. Moreover, in 2010 he also received a MS in Sport Science from University of Ljubljana. His research projects are tied to security studies, grand strategy, power, geopolitics, political economy, intelligence, and cybersecurity.Prof. France Bucar was born on 2 February 1923 in Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia. Being one of the six children of a local shoemaker, the local priest recognized his wit and persuaded the family to send him to Ljubljana to attend the elite Catholic classical college. When he enrolled to study law, the Second World War broke out and Bucar was first arrested by the Fascist occupiers and spend several years in concentration camp in Gonars. While on a train to another concentration camp in Germany, he escaped in 1944 and joined the partisans. After the war, he completed his law studies and became Secretary of the Republican Chamber in the Assembly of Slovenia. In 1959 he was awarded the Eisenhower fellowship and in 1963 became professor at the University of Ljubljana’s law school. He was banned from lecturing in 1976 and in 1978 dismissed from the University due to criticism of the social-political situation in Yugoslavia. He worked as a dissident, writing against Marxist and Leninist narratives, emphasizing ethics as a main feedback loop in his system. In 1988 he wrote an article where he outlined the plan for Slovenian independence and on the first free elections in Slovenia, in 1990, he became member and after also president of the Slovenian parliament. He wrote the Slovenian constitution and in 1991 declared the independence of his country. He continued to be socially active as the president of an NGO – Slovenian Paneuropean movement – until 2012. He passed away on 21 October 2015.