Published online by January 2025

Introduction

This chapter shows how globalizing market forces in the late 1960s and 1970s affected Yugoslavia’s federal balance by focusing on the foreign economic relations of the Socialist Republics (SRs) of Slovenia and Croatia. Per se, Yugoslavia’s SRs were part of a broader multinational federal framework. However, they were able to develop autonomous foreign economic policy initiatives which were sanctioned and sanctified by Yugoslavia’s ‘confederal’ constitution of 1974, which endowed federal units a form of ‘proto-statehood’.^[1][1]

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