Overview
- Focuses on the relationship between the European Economic Community (EEC) and Yugoslavia in the crucial decade of the 1970s
- Demonstrates that relations between the EEC and Yugoslavia were grounded on a political rationale linked to the evolution of the Cold War in Europe and the Mediterranean
- Offers important contributions in the fields of the Cold War, European Integration History, History of Yugoslavia and Balkan International Affairs
Part of the book series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World (SCCCW)
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The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is often described as the starting-point of the EEC/EU involvement in Western Balkan politics, as if no political relations had developed between the EEC and Yugoslavia during the Cold War era. Instead, this book shows that the origin of EEC-Yugoslav relations must be placed in the crucial decade of the 1970s. Contrary to received opinion, this work demonstrates that relations between the EEC and Yugoslavia were grounded on a strong political rationale which was closely linked to the evolution of the Cold War in Europe and the Mediterranean. The main argument is that relations between the two parties were primarily influenced by the need to prevent the expansion of Soviet influence in the Balkans and to foster détente in Europe.
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Book Title: The EEC’s Yugoslav Policy in Cold War Europe, 1968-1980
Authors: Benedetto Zaccaria
Series Title: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57978-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57977-5Published: 23 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84575-0Published: 20 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57978-2Published: 09 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-6807
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Topics: Modern History, History of Modern Europe