The search for a Cold War legitimacy : : foreign policy and Tito's Yugoslavia / / by Robert Niebuhr.

• Superior document: Balkan Studies Library, Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Niebuhr, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherland ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan studies library ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs.

Titoist Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting setting to examine the integrity of the modern nation-state, especially the viability of distinctly multi-ethnic nation-building projects. Scholarly literature on the brutal civil wars that destroyed Yugoslavia during the 1990s emphasizes divisive nationalism and dysfunctional politics to explain why the state disintegrated. But the larger question remains unanswered—just how did Tito’s state function so successfully for the preceding forty-six years. In an attempt to understand better what united the stable, multi-ethnic, and globally important Yugoslavia that existed before 1991 Robert Niebuhr argues that we should pay special attention to the dynamic and robust foreign policy that helped shape the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Robert Niebuhr -- Acknowledgments / Robert Niebuhr -- List of Illustrations / Robert Niebuhr -- List of Abbreviations / Robert Niebuhr -- Note on Translations and Terms / Robert Niebuhr -- Sources / Robert Niebuhr -- Illustrations / Robert Niebuhr -- Introduction / Robert Niebuhr -- Tito’s Early Expansion: A Strongman of the Balkans / Robert Niebuhr -- Yugoslavia’s Ideological Shift: From Strongman to Revisionist / Robert Niebuhr -- Nonalignment: Yugoslavia’s Foreign Policy Climax / Robert Niebuhr -- The Tito Doctrine / Robert Niebuhr -- Tito’s Twilight: A Post Nonalignment European Focus / Robert Niebuhr -- Conclusions: Yugoslavia and the Legacy of the Cold WarCold War / Robert Niebuhr.