[2] Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Wars Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sabrina P. Ramet, wrote the influential book Thinking about Yugoslavia in which she provided a survey of the major academic debates and interpretations of the region and the conflict.

On 26 January 1919 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Nils Claus Ihlen answered the letter sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia Ante Trumbić of 18 January 1919 in which Ihlen confirmed Norwegian willingness to establish formal relations with the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

[5] In 1947 the Norwegian justice court reaffirmed that Yugoslav prisoners were put in pure concentration camps, created with the aim of the systematic extermination.

[5] Following the 1948 Tito-Stalin split, Yugoslavia developed its relations with a number of Western and third world countries.

Despite improved and intensified cooperation between the two countries, Belgrade put its focus on the development of its Scandinavian relations with neutral Finland and partially with Sweden.