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Explain the following statement and elucidate its implications: “India’s policy of non-alignment was based on both idealist and realist calculations.”

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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Indian non-alignment is usually debated as morality versus calculation. The statement rejects that framing: Jawaharlal Nehru's policy carried an idealist strand (a normative vision of a cooperative world order) and a realist strand (interest defined in terms of power, in Hans J. Morgenthau's phrase from Politics Among Nations). Its central implication is that the two…

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  • The idealist calculation
  • The realist calculation
  • How the two combine
  • Implications of the statement
  • Conclusion
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