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Comment: Relevance of Non-Alignment in Post-Cold war era.

  • UPSC 2005, 1993
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Non-alignment, as Jawaharlal Nehru framed it, was not neutrality but an active policy of judging each issue on its merits without joining a military bloc; the Belgrade summit (1961) turned it into a movement. When the Soviet Union collapsed, critics declared it obsolete. The debate turns on separating three things: non-alignment as a doctrine, the…

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  • The case that non-alignment lost its relevance
  • The case that it remains relevant
  • Non-alignment reborn in Indian practice
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