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Yugoslavia FOREIGN POLICY
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Prime Minister Ante Markovic with President George H.W.
Bush,
Washington, 1990
Courtesy White House Photography Office
With the exception of the first three postwar years, the
foreign policy of Yugoslavia has emphasized balanced relations
between East and West and strong links with as many nonaligned
nations as possible. As in domestic politics, a primary
motivation for this course was to differentiate Yugoslavia from
the members of the Soviet Bloc; having made that distinction in
all areas by 1952, Tito pragmatically sought commercial and
political relations wherever and whenever advantageous. After
weathering numerous crises in its relations with both
superpowers, Yugoslavia entered the 1990s as titular head of a
diminished Nonaligned Movement; political and economic reversals
in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union forced Yugoslavia closer
to the wealthy West European nations, with the ultimate goal of
membership in the European Economic Community
(
EEC--see Glossary).
Data as of December 1990
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