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“During the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement tried to become a ‘Third Force’ in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), launched at Belgrade in September 1961 by Jawaharlal Nehru, Josip Broz Tito, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno and Kwame Nkrumah, grew from 25 members to more than ninety by the Havana summit of 1979. The statement is half right. Size magnified the movement's weakness, but the roots lay in heterogeneity, the absence…

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  • Did NAM seek to be a third force?
  • The case for "too large and unwieldy"
  • Why size is not the main cause
  • What it did achieve
  • Conclusion
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