(Un)making Detente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968-1980
Open AccessThe dissertation examines the global history of the Cold War and decolonization in the 1970s. It does so by connecting the histories of the so-called First, Second, and Third Worlds in the “long 1970s.” Belgrade’s foreign and domestic policy objectives required that Yugoslavia assume a disruptive role toward détente which it saw as an attempt by the superpowers to divide the spheres of influence (a “new Yalta”). This unease led the Belgrade regime to provide military and economic support to the regimes in Cairo and Addis Ababa but also to liberation movements in Lusophone Africa. Yugoslavia’s activism underlined the significance of internationalist solidarity. Yet, as my dissertation demonstrates, Yugoslavia’s military involvement in Egypt, Angola, and Ethiopia proved evidence of the country’s inability to transcend the Cold War divisions imposed by the superpowers.
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