From 'Pessimism' to Geopolitical Instrumentalisation: Revisting the US Policy towards dying Yugoslavia

The article studies the US foreign policy towards Yugoslavia from Premier Ante Marković’s visit to Washington, DC in October 1989 to the end of 1990. It addresses the superpower’s approach towards the federal economic and political reform plan and its stance in relation to the country’s unity after the end of the Cold War. Considering archival materials from the George Bush Presidential records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and sources available in US agencies’ electronic reading rooms, the author dismisses the idea that the US administration did not consider Yugoslavia to be important from the geopolitical perspective.