Based on research topics that have been discussed in the context related to
the European integration in the journal International Problems in the period
1949-1990, the aim of this paper is to consider the extent to which the
Yugoslav science of international relations followed this process. The main
thesis is that domestic science has studied all relevant aspects of the
integration process and has kept up with the times and the key theoretical
frameworks. After World War II, the focus was on the economic and political
situation of the Western European countries, their interests, as well as the
security context in which were launched the first integration initiatives:
the German issue, the Marshall Plan, the Cold war and bipolar world, the
process of decolonisation, the failure of the European Defense Community and
the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community, the European
Economic Community and EURATOM. At the beginning of the 60s of the 20th
century, great attention was devoted to the study of regional integration in
general and its models, as well as the expected effects. Along with the
slowdown in the European integration process in the late 60s and throughout
the 70s, the attention of researchers gradually shifted to individual
policies and initiatives of the European Economic Community: the Common
Agricultural Policy, development of regional policy, association agreements,
the Mediterranean policy, initiatives in the field of monetary integration.
The 80s of the last century were dominated by themes that marked this decade
in the process of European integration: factors for change in the European
Economic Community, the initiatives for reform of the Treaty, the
Mediterranean enlargement, the Single European Act, the program for
completing the internal market, changes in the social policy of the
Community and measures to promote technological development and strategy for
the industry. Along with it, the focus was on the relationship between the
United States and the Western European countries, East-West relations and
relations of Yugoslavia with the Community.
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