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Assess the role of the rim countries of the Indian Ocean in making it a peace zone in the post-Cold War era.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Changing International Political Order

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The Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, adopted as UN General Assembly Resolution 2832 (XXVI) in 1971 on Sri Lanka's initiative, asked great powers to remove bases, nuclear weapons and rivalry from the ocean. The end of the Cold War removed the superpower contest that had blocked it. The littoral states'…

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  • The inheritance from the Cold War
  • What rim countries achieved after 1991
  • Why a peace zone was never realised
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion
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