Nonalignment as Yugoslavia's Answer to Bloc Politics

Niebuhr, Robert

doi:10.1162/jcws_a_00072

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“…Today, new archival material from the former USSR suggests that the traditional view of the 1948 Tito-Stalin split should perhaps be revised. Declassified documents suggest that realpolitik preceded and decided the alleged ideological split with Moscow, not vice versa (Kramer, 2009;Niebuhr, 2011;Perovic, 2007;Plestina, 1992, p. 131). Perovic re-traces the West European interpretation of the Stalin-Tito split to a number of official Yugoslav historians (2007, footnote 7).…”

Section: Cold War Isomorphismmentioning

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Cold war isomorphism: communist regimes and the West European model of worker participation

Hedin

2016

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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In studies of cultural globalisation, the influence of communist regimes on Western Europe has remained under-theorised and little explored. Addressing this gap in research, this article puts forward the glocalisation grid of worldpolity theory as a means for conceptualising and investigating how East European communist regimes helped shape the evolution of West European welfare states during the Cold War. The article retraces the 1960s struggle over expert discourse within the International Labour Organization (ILO) in which communist regimes, including Yugoslavia and Poland, struggled to win the bureaucratic legitimacy of the ILO for their domestic policies. In focus are vertical, horizontal and temporal dimensions of glocalisation and the ensuing perceived or superficial similarityso-called isomorphismof legislation on worker participation in decision-making at the workplace. The article maps the timing of reforms across Europe, showing how East European reforms preceded and were co-constitutive to a pan-European process of policy isomorphism.

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Section: Cold War Isomorphismmentioning

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Cold war isomorphism: communist regimes and the West European model of worker participation

Hedin

2016

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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“…As the Soviet Union failed to prevent Tito from taking on a leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement during the turbulent 1960s, divisions within the communist world were deepened. Tito's actions and the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement as a global power already disrupted the Soviet monopoly over communist ideology, which had been dramatically weakened by Stalin's death in 1953 and the subsequent split between the Soviet Union and China (Niebuhr, 2011). The American Embassy in Belgrade analysed the First Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, which was held in Belgrade in 1961 and recorded that the presence of a large number of prominent persons had a very exciting impact on the population, which greeted the delegates whenever they appeared on the streets, and this happened up to four times a day.…”

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An Exit from Contradictions in the Post-Cold War Development of the Non-Aligned Movement

Bisenić¹

2021

The 60th Anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement

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“…Non-alignment thus helped to legitimise single-party rule at home and incorporate disparate internal interest groups. 8 In fact, Yugoslavia's non-aligned status in the Cold War became constitutionally enshrined in 1974. 9 Non-alignment therefore afforded Yugoslavia's different republics space to pursue constitutionally sanctioned diverging paths.…”

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Non-aligned Cities in the Cold War: Municipal Internationalism, Town Twinning and the Standing Conference of Towns of Yugoslavia, c.1950–c.1985

Unkovski-Korica

2021

The International History Review

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In the Cold War, Yugoslavia was famous for its non-aligned foreign policy. Non-alignment was a policy of balancing between the superpower blocs, but also of forging global collaboration of non-aligned states and actors in international institutions, with a view to increasing their room for manoeuvre at home and abroad. Relying on local and federal archives, this article explores the role of municipalities in Yugoslav foreign policy in two parts. The first part shows that the national municipal association, the Standing Conference of Towns of Yugoslavia, interpreted non-alignment as the pursuit of mediation on an East-West and North-South axis, largely through the two principal international municipal organisations, the pro-Western International Union of Local Authorities and Eastward-leaning F ed eration mondiale des villes jumel ees-United Towns Organisation. The second part examines the multitude of direct municipal links pursued by Yugoslav cities in the East, West and South. The article finds that municipalities tended to prefer direct links in Europe rather than the Global South, and that Yugoslavia's republics faced different ways between East and West in terms of their municipal links. These foreign policy divergences at different levels of the state raise important questions for understanding Yugoslav foreign policy in the Cold War.

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Nonalignment as Yugoslavia's Answer to Bloc Politics

Cited by 21 publications

References 2 publications

Cold war isomorphism: communist regimes and the West European model of worker participation

Cold war isomorphism: communist regimes and the West European model of worker participation

An Exit from Contradictions in the Post-Cold War Development of the Non-Aligned Movement

Non-aligned Cities in the Cold War: Municipal Internationalism, Town Twinning and the Standing Conference of Towns of Yugoslavia, c.1950–c.1985

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