![]() ![]() My analysis shows, however, the limits of this model of state-based resistance by problematising how the principle and right of self-determination was a contested and fragile concept in the post-imperial world order. Self-management's vision of a direct democracy through decentralisation was showcased abroad as a way of affirming national sovereignty and as means for international cooperation irrespective of political, legal or socio-economic differences of any state. ![]() Building on the existing historiography of Yugoslav foreign policy, I argue that Yugoslavia's use of soft power and its promotion of self-management abroad in the form of nonalignment affected in a profound way the international legal and political order during the Cold War era. As such, the thesis engages with the international and national faces of NAM, the critical geopolitical project that was comprised of a heterogeneous group of nation-states aspiring to create an alternative model of global organisation through peaceful coexistence and solidarity.Īt the core of my examination is the dialectical relationship between 'nonalignment' - NAM's organisational concept and Yugoslavia's foreign policy central pillar - and Yugoslavia's domestic policy of 'self-management'. To this end, the thesis explores, in particular, the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) as an example of radical experimentalism through the experience of Yugoslavia. ![]() My thesis builds on this scholarship on the plural histories of the international legal order, in particular regarding how domestic policies can serve as prisms to examine alternative international pasts and futures. Recent scholarship has shown, however, that peripheral sovereignties functioned during this period as a tool for state-based resistance and as sites for the creation of alternative visions of the international legal order. The Cold War has conventionally been viewed through the lenses of the Great powers a coercive standstill, with most nation-states placed on the margins of that bi-polar legal, economic, political and cultural international arrangement.
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