Finland–Yugoslavia relations

Finland–Yugoslavia relations (Finnish: Suomen ja Jugoslavian suhteet; Serbo-Croatian: Finsko-jugoslavenski odnosi, Финско-југословенски односи; Slovene: Odnosi med Finsko in Jugoslavijo; Macedonian: Односите Финска-Југославија) were historical foreign relations between Finland and the now split-up Kingdom of Yugoslavia or Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Both countries perceived development of relations among non-bloc neutral European states as a way to avoid isolation and preserve a certain level of independence without alienating major powers.

Yugoslavia, however, perceived that in a deeply divided Europe there was shrinking maneuvering space for neutral countries and followed the development of what will be called the process of Finlandization with great concern.

[2] The fact that ambitious small countries in the periphery or semi-periphery such as Yugoslavia and Finland were frequently able to use superpowers' rivalries to their own disproportional advantage motivated some scholars of the era (e.g. Tvrtko Jakovina) to focus on what they called pericentric studies of the Cold War.

[2] Non-aligned (Yugoslavia, Cyprus and Malta) and neutral (Finland, Switzerland, Austria and to an extent Sweden) European countries continued to cooperate in an effort to overcome the Cold War divisions in Europe.