Поглед на југословенску несврстану политику из азијских архива: нови прилози историји односа Југославије и Трећег света
A View on Yugoslavia’s Nonaligned Policy from the Asian Archives: New Supplements to the History of Yugoslavia’s Relations with the Third World

Author(s): Jovan Čavoški
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, International relations/trade, Cold-War History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Archive; Yugoslavia; Asia; nonalignment; foreign policy; Cold War;
Summary/Abstract: Yugoslavia’s nonaligned foreign policy during the Cold War was one of the main features of the country’s outstanding presence in the international arena. Recent Cold War studies, relying on new archival findings from all sides of this global conflict, tend to give more prominence to the role of lesser powers inside the international system. With the opening of the Yugoslav archives, this was also a noticeable trend in the domestic historiography too. Following these new scientific trends, this article strives to present recent findings from the major Asian archival institutions that could shed more light on the relevance of Yugoslavia’s interactions with the Third World and that could raise new research issues that these new findings might solve. Based on author’s personal experience, this article tends to present some of the most important archives and documents coming from China, India, and Myanmar, countries that nurtured specific relationship with socialist Yugoslavia at that time, adding thus new details and weight to the research done in the domestic archives. Therefore, some of these documents portray Yugoslavia’s all encompassing political, economic, and military presence among major Third World nations even more clearly and also underpin the country’s claims to relevance during the Cold War.

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