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Introduction: Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Contradictions and Contestations

The partnership between socialist Yugoslavia and states in what is now termed the Global South within the Non-Aligned Movement (nam), with formal beginnings in the summit in Belgrade on 1–5 September 1961, provides an insight into what can be termed “globalization otherwise, ” bringing other possibilities and worlds into view than today’s neoliberal globalization.1 nam can be regarded as one of a number of critical “antisystemic worldmaking projects” (Getachew 2019, 3) after the Second World War, a form of transnational solidarity with a vision of a counterhegemonic modernizing globalization whose dominant actors, with the exception of socialist Yugoslavia, were situated outside the European space. In its own way, nam offered alternatives not only to East-West conflicts in the context of the Cold War but also expressed the hopes of a world emerging from colonial domination of the South by the North. In the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the Non-Aligned Movement was actively forgotten, at least in the post-Yugoslav space, both politically and academically. Recent years have, however, witnessed a resurgence of scholarly and activist interest in the history of the nam in the context both of work on the interrelationship between socialist and decolonial processes and in terms of a renewed interest in Yugoslavia in a global perspective.

Yugoslavia, Non-Aligned Movement, Cold War, Global South

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