DIE HISTORISCHEN WURZELN DER BLOCKFREIHEIT
THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF NON-ALIGNMENT

Author(s): Edvard Kardelj
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Geopolitics
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Titoism; Anti-Colonialism;
Summary/Abstract: German edition published in 1975 in Belgrade in a publishing serfies entitled “Socialist Theory and Practice”. Access provided by CEEOL based on kind authorisation by copyright-holder Dr. Igor Šoltes (Ljubljana) //The Non-Aligned Movement emerged during the Cold War as a more or less united force for action. At the time, it manifested as a form of resistance against the division of the world into blocs and the pressure to align with them—a stance from which it derived its name. Because this name fails to capture the full historical significance and role of the phenomenon, the movement is often characterized merely as a reaction to the world's division into blocs and the dominance of those blocs—that is, exclusively as a consequence of post-war developments in international relations. While it is certainly that, it is simultaneously the expression of a much longer-term socio-historical trend within contemporary humanity—one that did not originate only after the Second World War.

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