ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one particularly significant geopolitical narrative in socialist Yugoslavia, a country that challenges the political, economic, and cultural uniqueness of the Cold War binaries of the East and the West. In this particular case study of Yugoslavia, the chapter deals with a very dynamic and complex geopolitical imagination, one that is quite heterogeneous during the Cold War period. The chapter presents an analytical overview of the geopolitical imagination through the representative 'cultural patterns' of Yugoslav culture by considering culture as 'a whole way of life'. The analytical overview that point to the symbolic and political impact of 'America' in the Yugoslav geopolitical imagination as read through cultural text practices, revealing the notion that 'our view of America is largely shaped by the images of America rather than its reality'. The chapter considers the term 'geopolitical imagination' as the representation, creation and subversion of geopolitical issues through cultural texts and practices.
