Establishing a non-aligned bloc at the height of the power politics-ridden Cold War era was one of the most profound normative contributions India made to the modern international order. This article ...argues that NAM was a pragmatic yet principled approach to dealing with a world dominated by divisive power politics. For India, non-alignment still lives on to a certain extent in the form of its spirited defence of strategic autonomy and the recent iteration of 'multi-alignment' in Indian foreign policy to deal with an uncertain world.
El artículo estudia la participación de las naciones latinoamericanas en el Movimiento de Países No Alineados durante la Guerra Fría. Se pregunta por los motivos que llevaron a un número importante ...de países del continente a ingresar en el Movimiento, la mayoría de ellos entre 1973 y 1983. Mediante el análisis de fuentes primarias y secundarias se examinan siete casos: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panamá y Perú. Se establece que, principalmente, las naciones latinoamericanas buscaron, a través de su participación en el Movimiento, incrementar su autonomía y profundizar o completar su soberanía. Por último, se plantea que el No Alineamiento en América Latina se relacionó más con la historia larga de la descolonización que con la coyuntural Guerra Fría.
The history of the Non-Aligned Movement is marked by a seemingly irreconcilable fracture: that between Yugoslavia and Cuba. Both countries aspired to gain leadership in it, while advocating for very ...different visions of socialist internationalism. Underneath the surface of strained diplomatic relations, however, lay a seabed of prolific economic cooperation between Yugoslav and Cuban enterprises. Propelling this exchange was a question fundamental to the non-aligned economic strategy: how to achieve economic de-colonisation and self-reliance without compromising aspirations to global integration. Based on new research findings, this article analyses economic non-alignment as a balancing act between integration and self-sufficiency.
Despite an increased interest in the diplomatic history of India - chiefly supplemented by the opening up of Indian diplomatic records - the Latin American region has received marginal attention. ...Interestingly, the archival sources based in India throw an altogether fresh perspective on diplomatic engagements between India and Latin America during the Cold War period. This Research Note places the Cuban Revolution in perspective to examine how developments in Cuba kept Indian diplomats and leaders engrossed. Through India's understanding of Castro's Cuba, the Note captures ideological and pragmatic considerations defining the responses to each other's overtures during such an important turn in history.
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