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In his article on the West German ambivalence regarding Yugoslavia in the period from the Ostpolitik to the German Unification, Julien Thorel recalls the important role that the “third world” played with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) facing the bipolar confrontation between the two camps. The first summit of the NAM was held in 1961 in the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, through Tito's initiative. The author identifies three phases in the evolution of German foreign policy towards Yugoslavia between 1974 and 1989, separated by two leading events: the death of Marshal Tito in 1980 and Mikhail Gorbachev coming to power in the Soviet Union in 1985. Although Germany’s foreign policy in Yugoslavia over the period 1974-1989 oscillated between benevolent support and a strengthening of political, economic and cultural ties, the normalization of German-Yugoslav relations was, however, one of the early signs of the "change through rapprochement" which is at the heart of Bonn's strategy towards the Eastern bloc.