The Scope and the Relevance of the US Economic and Military Aid to SFR Yugoslavia
Ključne reči:
Yugoslavia, United States of America, Cold War, economy, military, foreign aidApstrakt
The paper draws a sketch of bilateral relations between socialist Yugoslavia and the United States of America in 1945-1992 period. It argues that the logic of economic and military aid of the US towards Yugoslavia was the main feature of that relationship, as it followed both countries’ own assessments of their respective roles and interest in a wider Cold War framework. The paper will show variations in these policies as they reflected deeper foreign policy changes, most radically in 1948 and with a number of softer turns over the given period but will also show that until the late 1980s there were core mutual understandings of benefits for both countries. These understanding subsided with the end of the Cold War in Europe as different agendas emerged on both sides. The paper uses historical method, through combination of published and unpublished archival sources from the US (what is digitally available) and Belgrade (Archive of Yugoslavia and Diplomatic Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and relevant literature of both Serbian/Yugoslav and US provenance.
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