non-alignment
English meaning: Non-Alignment
English Definition
(English)Non-alignment allowed newly independent nations to chart an independent foreign policy — accepting aid and trade from both superpowers without subordinating sovereignty to either. Nehru's NAM vision sought to make the Third World a 'third force' in global politics. Post-Cold War, India's 'strategic autonomy' is the evolved version of non-alignment.
English Definition
The Cold War foreign policy of not formally allying with either the US-led Western bloc or the Soviet-led Eastern bloc. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was co-founded by India's Nehru, Yugoslavia's Tito, Egypt's Nasser, Indonesia's Sukarno, and Ghana's Nkrumah at the 1955 Bandung Conference.
Example
“Nehru's non-alignment policy at Bandung (1955) united Asian and African nations in asserting independent foreign policies against superpower domination.”
In English: “Nehru's non-alignment philosophy gave newly independent nations strategic independence from Cold War blocs.”
Synonyms
- strategic autonomy
- neutrality
- NAM
Antonyms / Opposites
- alignment
- alliance
- bloc politics
Literary Heritage
“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
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