Rooting for a Serbian-Dominated Yugoslavia? The United Kingdom and the Recognition of Slovenia and Croatia

Methfessel Christian ()
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Methfessel Christian: Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, 220773 Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History , Berlin, Germany

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2025, vol. 73, issue 2, 129-153

Abstract: The recognition of Slovenia and Croatia was a defining moment in the history of the post-Cold War order in Europe. From the outset, this step was a controversial one, and scholars focussing on the role of the United Kingdom often claim that London’s responses to the collapse of Yugoslavia can be explained by a long British tradition of pro-Serbian sentiment, the Foreign Office’s realpolitik approach, or Britain’s neocolonial interests. This article analyses British foreign policy on the basis of recently declassified documents in order to critically discuss such assumptions about the motives of British foreign policy and thus contribute to the international history of the Yugoslav Wars in the early 1990s.

Keywords: United Kingdom; Yugoslav Wars; international history; state recognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2025-0003

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