THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS BETWEEN 1950 AND 1990

JANKOVIĆ Slobodan (Naučni saradnik u Institutu za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd), slobodan@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

The paper analyses articles which deal with the Middle East politics, published in International Problems – a scientific journal of the Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade. The author employs the method of content analysis to examine 12 research articles. The analysed articles are classified chronologically, by periods before and after 1956 when socialist Yugoslavia started the implementation of foreign policy based on the NonAlignment principles (and eventually became one of the founding members of the Movement). That year also coincides more or less with the end of the Balkan Pact. The author particularly analyses ideological stances and tones used in texts, comparing them with the foreign policy of official Belgrade vis-à-vis Moscow and Washington. The author concludes that after the 1950s the revolutionary fervour was lost and the use of the Marxist framework in the analysis of the reality of international relations in the Middle East declined significantly.

Keywords: International Problems, Middle East, Soviet Union, Marxism, Non-Alignment, Yugoslav Foreign Policy, Institute of International Politics and Economics