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What were the major determinants of India’s Foreign Policy of Non-alignment? Indicate the changes in India’s Foreign Policy since the 1990’s.

  • UPSC 2004
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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Non-alignment, set out by Jawaharlal Nehru in September 1946, meant refusing bloc commitments while judging each issue on its merits. It was overdetermined: several separate considerations, some normative and some material, pointed the same way. After 1991 its method changed almost completely, while its objective, decisional freedom, did not.

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  • Major determinants of non-alignment
  • Changes in Indian foreign policy since the 1990s
  • The shocks of 1991
  • What changed
  • What continued
  • Conclusion
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