THE MIDDLE EAST IN YUGOSLAVIA’S FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY IN THE 1970s

Abstract

The article concerns the importance of the Middle East in Yugoslavia’s foreign policy strategy in the years 1970-1980. The text is an introduction to in-depth research on subject matter not sufficiently developed by previous research and was written based on available documents of the US State Department, the Wilson Center Digital Archive, and the resources of the library of US President Gerald Ford. Additionally, I used available international scientific periodicals in English, source literature in English, Serbian, and Polish, as well as memoirs of the most important global political figures of that time, including Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

Keywords

• middle east
• egypt
• israel
• yugoslavia
• ussr
• united states