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Critically examine the view that in the post-Cold War era, Indian policy of non-alignment has become irrelevant.

  • UPSC 2003
  • India and the Non-Aligned Movement

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Non-alignment was a relational position: Jawaharlal Nehru's refusal to join either Cold War bloc so that India could judge each issue on its merits. When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, critics argued that a state cannot be non-aligned between one power. The view has real force, but it confuses the doctrine's Cold War…

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  • The case for irrelevance
  • The critique of that view
  • What later practice shows
  • Conclusion
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