PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · India & the Non-Aligned Movement
Does the Non-Aligned Movement have any future in the wake of India’s growing indifference towards it?
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 NAM born 1961 → new states clear of both blocs → sovereignty + equitable development → India’s absence real, future turns on NAM’s own reform R2 absence from recent summits = post-1991 shift to multi- alignment → the question is NAM’s condition, not India’s attendance decline predates India’s drift → C. Raja Mohan: meaning lost before the Cold War ended, failed to shape events → 120-plus members, fragmented priorities → no permanent secretariat → agenda absorbed by African Union / ASEAN / BRICS → but small and marginalised states still need a voice → M.K. Narayanan: collective voice on global issues → global governance + UN reform → TN. Paul: space for soft balancing, onus on smaller countries → future conditional on reform → Harsh V. Pant: “old shibboleths’, no new goals → Keethaponcalan: permanent secretariat + selective engagement in place of non-cooperation
Body flow
NAM a spent force (no achievement, no machinery, regional bodies took over the agenda) vs NAM the one collective platform left to weaker states
Counter-view
rR! a future exists, but a reformed one → India’s absence weakens the platform, does not decide it R2 the decline was NAM’s own → reform of agenda and structure settles the question, not India’s return
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
