Josip Broz Tito and the Beginnings of the Non-Aligned Movement

Abstract

: In the present paper, the author examines the evolution of the foreign policy orientation of socialist Yugoslavia at the very beginning of the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement. The analysis uses primary and secondary sources, based on which it can be concluded that the foreign policy stance of Yugoslavia in the time of Josip Broz Tito had a clear ideological basis to answer the key problems of the then world. At the same time, Yugoslavia had the political power to actively and peacefully take over the role of a leader in a movement whose outlines were only in sight at the time of the Belgrade Summit of non-aligned countries. At that moment, non-alignment seemed to the author to be “politics with the future”.