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“Non-alignment was little more than a rational strategy on the part of a materially weak India to maximise its interests with a bipolar distribution of global power.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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The statement gives the structural-realist reading of Indian non-alignment: in a bipolar system of the kind Kenneth N. Waltz theorised (Theory of International Politics, 1979), a weak new state stays uncommitted and lets two rival suitors bid for it. Scholarship reads the policy in two ways, as maximisation of national interest or as a counter-hegemonic…

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  • The case for the rational-strategy reading
  • Why "little more than" overstates it
  • Where the idealist reading also fails
  • The test of persistence
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