Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism: Tito’s International Rise, Celebrity and Fall

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy.

Zvonimir Stopic is an Assistant Professor at Capital Normal University, a researcher at CNU’s Institute of Global and Area Studies, and an associate at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. His publications, which cover topics in Cold War and contemporary international relations, include Revolutionaries, Revisionists, Dogmatists, Dogs and Madmen: China and Yugoslavia from 1948 until 1971 (2022) and China, Yugoslavia, and the Socialist Worldmaking: Convergences and Divergences (2023).

Robert Niebuhr is an Associate Teaching Professor and Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He has published widely on topics ranging from modern Yugoslavia to the Chaco War, including The Search for a Cold War Legitimacy: Foreign Policy and Tito’s Yugoslavia (2018), and ¡Vamos a avanzar!: The Chaco War and Bolivia’s Political Transformation, 1899-1952 (2021).

David Pickus is Associate Professor of History at The American University in Vietnam. He was a Fulbright scholar in Belgrade, 2007-08. His other publications cover Germany and East-Central Europe, China and globalization, refugee intellectuals and literature and pandemic.