Yugoslavia and Security in Europe during the 1960s (Views, Attitudes, Initiatives)

Abstract

The issue of peace and security in Europe was one of the key issues of the Yugoslav foreign policy during the 1960s. Yugoslavia supported initiatives for the suspension and prohibition of nuclear testing, destruction of obsolete military arsenal, nuclear non-proliferation, achieving global security, recognition of Oder-Neisse border and a need for the acceptance of two German states. The article is based on Yugoslav and Soviet published and unpublished sources and relevant domestic and foreign literature.

Keywords

• Key words: Yugoslavia
• Europe
• USSR
• US
• Cold War
• security
• nuclear weapon
• German issue
• Josip Broz