Yugoslavia-Burma relations
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(New Evidence from Yugoslav, Chinese, Indian, and U.S. Archives)..."...This paper will show the events surrounding the initiation of Yugoslavia?s arms
shipments to Burma in the early 1950s and how these actions shifted the power equation inside
the Burmese society and in its immediate neighborhood. Using recently declassified documents
from the major Yugoslav archives (President Tito?s personal archive, Foreign Ministry Archives
of Serbia , the Defense Ministry Archives of Serbia, and the Archive of Yugoslavia, which
retains the records of the Yugoslav state and communist party), Chinese archives (Chinese
Foreign Ministry Archives), Indian archives (National Archives of India, Ministry of External
Affairs), and U.S. archives (National Archives and Records Administration) as well as private
collections such as the ones at the National Security Archive, this paper will look at the impact
that these arms transfers had on the overall development of the bilateral strategic partnership
between Belgrade and Rangoon and how these arrangements between two distant countries were
perceived by the government circles in the U.S., China, and India. The paper will argue that
Yugoslav-Burmese military cooperation substantially altered some of the strategic plans of the
great powers with regards to this region..."
Jovan Čavoški
Source/publisher:
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Cold War International History Project (Working Paper #61)
Date of publication:
2010-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-04-19
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Language:
English
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