However, anti-imperialism also assumed a special form and prominent place in the Non-Aligned Movement. This still active global association of countries was established in 1961 as an alternative to the Cold War blocs of the U.S.A. and Soviet Union, mostly by so-called developing and Third World countries. Until the late 1980s, Yugoslavia was one of its leading countries, due to the prominent figure of President Josip Broz Tito. The Non-Aligned Movement was created as a reaction to the threats of the Cold War, nuclear arming and superpower interventions around the world, and was shaped by concerns of the then recently independent and decolonised states striving for modernisation, Its core values were anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, anti-militarism and anti-apartheid, and respect for sovereignty and solidarity among small and less powerful states. These conditions and values made the Movement particularly prone to conspiratorial interpretations of superpowers’ military actions and their attempts to weaken the Movement through some of their member countries.
– ‘Conspiracy theories in and about the Balkans’, in Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories (2020), p. 603