{"id":29911,"date":"2018-10-26T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29911"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:31:27","slug":"non-alignment-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/non-alignment-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-alignment redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/non-alignment-redux\/article23579048.ece\"><strong>Non-alignment redux<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What non-alignment means to India depends on the prism through which it is viewed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18th mid-term ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) concluded in early April in Azerbaijan<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Importance of NAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The idea behind non-alignment thus conceived was to promote peace and security in a global arena where superpowers were constantly posturing to achieve their hegemonic ambitions<\/li>\n<li>In that context, NAM helped preserve the sovereignty of many young nations, including democracies such as India which wished to follow the path of strategic independence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Is it not far less credible for India to claim to be non-aligned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After India joined the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a coalition seen by many as a counterforce to China\u2019s rise in the Indo-Pacific<\/li>\n<li>Coinciding with this is Russia\u2019s drift from India and the emergence of a Russia-China-Pakistan trilateral<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is little doubt that India needs to do more to explain what non-alignment means to it now as the global order has changed dramatically in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-alignment redux Context What non-alignment means to India depends on the prism through which it is viewed Background 18th mid-term ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) concluded in early April in Azerbaijan\u00a0 Importance of NAM The idea behind non-alignment thus conceived was to promote peace and security in a global arena where superpowers were&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/non-alignment-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non-alignment redux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704679577},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}