Title: From Bandung to NAM: Non-alignment and Indian Foreign Policy, 1947–65
Abstract:Abstract This article seeks to clarify the relationship between non-alignment as the most distinctive feature of Indian foreign policy thinking during the Cold War and India's interest in helping form...Abstract This article seeks to clarify the relationship between non-alignment as the most distinctive feature of Indian foreign policy thinking during the Cold War and India's interest in helping form the non-aligned movement (NAM). Precisely because of the early success of its independent non-aligned policy, India's decision to join and help shape the non-aligned movement needs explaining. This article offers new historical evidence to argue that India's decision to associate with the non-aligned movement – and thereby turn away from the racialised legacy of the Bandung Conference – was driven by contingent political factors rather than the intellectual and moral superiority of non-alignment over racialism.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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