»FROM SKADARLIJA TO DOWNING STREET«: VELIKA BRITANIJA IN ZAČETEK JUGOSLOVANSKE KRIZE, 1980-1985. (Slovenian)

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  • Author(s): RAMŠAK, Jure
  • Source:
    Annals for Istrian & Mediterranean Studies / Annales: Series Historia et Sociologia; 2017, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p687-698, 12p
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    • Alternate Title:
      »FROM SKADARLIJA TO DOWNING STREET«: GREAT BRITAIN AND THE BEGINNING OF THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS, 1980–1985. (English)
      »FROM SKADARLIJA TO DOWNING STREET«: IL REGNO UNITO E L'INIZIO DELLA CRISI JUGOSLAVA (1980–1985). (Italian)
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the relationship between Great Britain and Yugoslavia in the fi rst half of the 1980s with the aim of providing a more comprehensive picture of the attitude adopted by the Western powers towards the nascent Yugoslav crisis. During the period following Tito's death, which was still strongly marked by the Cold War, the relations between non-aligned Yugoslavia and Britain were at their peak, as evidenced by a number of high-level offi cial visits. As in previous years, the British strategic interest was more than obvious: to keep Yugoslavia united, non-aligned and (at least a little longer) socialist; Yugoslavia was perceived as a critical element for the stability in Southeast Europe and the protection of the Mediterranean from the Soviet Union. Based on archival materials from the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister's Offi ce, diplomatic dispatches from Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs in Belgrade and some memoirs, the article explains the political signifi cance that Yugoslavia had in multilateral and bilateral relations, Britain's view on Yugoslavia's political and economic reforms and how British diplomatic representatives assessed Yugoslavia's domestic political conditions and the rising confl icts between the republics. The analysis of these international aspects of the post-Tito crisis give a clear understanding of the general perceptions that Western governments had about Yugoslavia and that remained almost unchanged until the beginning of the 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      Nell'articolo l'autore analizza la relazione tra il Regno Unito e la Jugoslavia nella prima metà degli anni Ottanta, integrando in tal modo gli studi che disaminano l'approccio delle grandi potenze europee e mondiali rispetto alla crescente crisi jugoslava. Come negli anni precedenti, anche nel periodo considerato il Regno Unito nel suo rapporto con la Jugoslavia, vista come chiave della stabilità nell'Europa sud-orientale, baluardo contro l'invasione sovietica del Mediterraneo e come sostenitrice di posizioni moderate all'interno del movimento dei non allineati, ha espresso soprattutto il proprio interesse strategico: preservare una Jugoslavia che rimanesse unita, non allineata e (per almeno qualche tempo ancora) socialista. Sulla scorta di materiale d'archivio proveniente dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri britannico, dal gabinetto del primo ministro Margaret Thatcher, del Segretariato federale jugoslavo per gli Affari Esteri e in base ad alcuni memoriali, l'autore presenta la valutazione politica del ruolo della Jugoslavia a livello multilaterale e bilaterale, il punto di vista britannico circa le riforme politiche ed economiche intraprese dall'esecutivo jugoslavo e la valutazione dei crescenti confl itti tra le repubbliche e della politica interna jugoslava stilata dai rappresentanti diplomatici britannici. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
    • Abstract:
      Članek analizira razmerje Velike Britanije in Jugoslavije v prvi polovici osemdesetih let, s čimer dopolnjuje sliko odnosa velikih svetovnih in evropskih sil do porajajoče se jugoslovanske krize. Tako kot v predhodnih letih, je tudi v tem času prišel do izraza strateški interes Velike Britanije ohranjati enotno, neuvrščeno in (vsaj še nekaj časa) socialistično Jugoslavijo kot ključ do stabilnosti jugovzhodne Evrope, kot branika pred vdorom Sovjetske zveze na Sredozemlje in kot zagovornika zmernosti znotraj gibanja neuvrščenih. Na podlagi arhivskega gradiva britanskega zunanjega ministrstva in kabineta premierke Margaret Thatcher, jugoslovanskega zveznega sekretariata za zunanje zadeve ter nekaterih spominskih del je v članku prikazana politična ocena vloge Jugoslavije na multilateralnem in bilateralnem področju, britanski pogled na njene politične in ekonomske reforme ter ocene diplomatskih predstavnikov o notranjepolitičnih razmerah in porajajočih se medrepubliških konfl iktih. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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