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“The role of the Non-Alignment Movement in world affairs has suffered greatly due to the theatre of internecine conflicts among the Third World countries who spearheaded it.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2015
  • The World after World War II

The statement identifies NAM's deepest structural wound — not superpower pressure from outside, but war among its own founding members.

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  • The Premise: A Movement Built on Claimed Unity
  • India-Pakistan Wars: Fracturing the Founding Core
  • The Sino-Indian War of 1962: The Sharpest Wound
  • The Iran-Iraq War and the Wider Middle East
  • Why Internecine Conflict Was Especially Damaging
  • Weighing the Statement Against Other Causes of Decline

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