Milan Balažic
Milan Balažic (born 19 October 1958) is a Slovenian political theorist, politician and diplomat. Early life Balažic was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of former Yugoslavia, to a family originating from Prekmurje. In 1985 he graduated in political science from the University of Ljubljana, with the thesis The critic of scientific objectivism: monopoly capital and revolutionary subject. In 1994 he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Rastko Močnik, analysing the approaches of Frankfurt School and Lacan's psychoanalysis to the social and political field. As a student, he was the editor-in-chief of the student paper Tribuna and a member of the editorial board of the Journal for the Criticism of Science. Political career In the period of the Slovene Spring Balažic was a member of the Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia, the autonomous branch of the Communist Party. At the time of the JBTZ trial he acted as its representative in the Igor Bavčar's Committee for ...
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Ambassador
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'aff ...
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