Croatia-Slovenia Border Dispute in the Bay of Piran and Reasons of Reaction of both parties to final award of International Arbitration

This text presents progression of Slovenia-Croatia border dispute in the Bay of Piran and narrates the question of Slovenian junction to high seas. The dispute which escalated with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is one of many similar disputes that has the war in the Balkans caused. Therefore, the text presents the historical progression of the dispute and its solutions. However, none of those attempts of solution were successful and the dispute remained unsolved for more than twenty years until the parties finally agreed to international arbitration. The international arbitration of Permanent Court of Arbitration in Haag between 2012 - 2017 was the last attempt of solution by third party. This text reconstructs the arbitration and analysis reaction of both sides to the Final Award of the Tribunal and its process. Important part of the whole conflict as well as for this thesis is unilateral termination of Croatia from the arbitration due to the presence of wire-tapes which delivered the conversation between Slovenia's government representatives and Slovenian member of the Tribunal. The thesis presents the circumstances of those wire-tapes and reactions of both parties. The thesis contrasts the political arguments and the international law. It also answers the question why Croatia has..