Slovenia’s State Institutions in the Grip of Democratic Political Culture and the Media (The Telecom Case)

Q3 Social Sciences

World Political Science Pub Date : 2017-12-20 DOI:10.1515/wps-2017-0011

Monika Kalin Golob, Anton Grizold

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Abstract This paper analyses the systemic framework of the operation of the Intelligence and Security Service – ISS, and the parliamentary supervision of its operations. It takes as its focus a case that occurred last year and was related to the Defence Minister’s commissioning of working materials from the Service on the effects that the privatization of the national telecommunications provider – Telekom Slovenije would have on the operation of the Service in the light of Slovenia’s defence interests. This work also presents a linguostylistic analysis of the media reports covering this case. The findings show that while after 25 years as an independent state Slovenia has established the institutional framework for the operation of the ISS and regulated parliamentary supervision of its work, it has not as yet managed to achieve the harmonized operation of all state policies in the field of national security. Rather than contributing to the solution of certain dilemmas regarding the legal, political and professional aspects of the operation of this civil intelligence and security service in the context of Slovenian national defence, the media reporting used a selection of foregrounded (marked) linguistic means in headlines to characterize the event as a scandal, and designate the ISS as a military intelligence service.

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民主政治文化和媒体控制下的斯洛文尼亚国家机构(电信案例)

摘要本文分析了情报与安全局(ISS)运作的系统框架，以及议会对其运作的监督。报告的重点是去年发生的一起案件，该案件涉及国防部长委托情报处提供工作材料，研究国家电信供应商- -斯洛文尼亚电信- -鉴于斯洛文尼亚的国防利益，将对情报处的业务产生的影响。本文还对报道该案件的媒体报道进行了语言文体分析。调查结果表明，虽然斯洛文尼亚作为一个独立国家25年后已经建立了国际空间站运作的体制框架，并规范了议会对其工作的监督，但它尚未设法在国家安全领域实现所有国家政策的协调运作。在斯洛文尼亚国防的背景下，媒体的报道并没有帮助解决这一民事情报和安全部门运作的法律、政治和专业方面的某些困境，而是在标题中使用了一些突出的(标记的)语言手段，将这一事件定性为丑闻，并将国际空间站指定为军事情报部门。

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