Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement
Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement

Author(s): Dragan Bogetić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Diplomatic history, Political history, International relations/trade, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: ISAC - Centar za međunarodne i bezbednosne poslove
Keywords: Yugoslavia; neutrality; Yugoslav neutralism
Summary/Abstract: I will make an attempt to briefly present the key determinants and content guidelines of the Yugoslavian non-aligned policy, but also to indirectly indicate the contact points and differences between this policy and the concept of neutrality itself. After a period of uncritical glorification, followed also by euphoric satanization of the non-aligned concept, finally the time has come, based on relevant archive material, to provide real answers, at least to some elementary questions in this field. Some of them are: if this policy was in fact desired or forced; how difficult was it to prompt sometimes unwilling partners who were not belonging to neither of political-military blocks to cooperate, and finally, why Yugoslavia distanced itself from Europe and connected to far away and unknown civilizations.

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