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“In a uni-polar world, non-alignment has lost its relevance.” Do you agree with this view? Give arguments in support of your answer.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Changing International Political Order

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Charles Krauthammer called the post-1991 dominance of the United States the "unipolar moment" (Foreign Affairs, 1990/91). Non-alignment, defined at Belgrade (1961) as refusing membership of rival military blocs, seemed to lose its object once one bloc vanished. I disagree with the view while accepting part of it: unipolarity weakened the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) as an…

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