Yugoslavia’s accession to the OEEC/OECD as an observing member was primarily motivated by concerns that the deepening of the process of Western European integration would have an adverse effect on trade with Yugoslavia´s most important trading partners. While Western powers were willing to associate Yugoslavia with a core Western economic institution, the Yugoslav authorities realized in the early 1960s that relations with the OECD could not compensate for staying outside the Western European economic trading areas (EEC and EFTA). Instead, the Yugoslav participation in the OECD became more of a means to engage with Western policy-makers, exchange views on global trade and development, and gain insights into economic policies and benefit from the organization’s expertise in various fields.
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Author information Authors and AffiliationsDepartment of History, University of Zurich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006, Zurich, Switzerland
Andrej Marković
European University Institute, Villa Salviati, Via Bolognese 156, 50139, Firenze, Italy
Ivan Obadić
Correspondence to Andrej Marković .
Editor information Editors and AffiliationsDepartment of History, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Matthieu Leimgruber
DFG-Kolleg on Post-Growth Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Matthias Schmelzer
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About this chapter Cite this chapterMarković, A., Obadić, I. (2017). A Socialist Developing Country in a Western Capitalist Club: Yugoslavia and the OEEC/OECD, 1955–1980. In: Leimgruber, M., Schmelzer, M. (eds) The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60243-1_4
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