World After 1945 — Social Science STD 9 — Question

The policy of not joining i.e, aligning with any of the two major power blocs namely America and the Soviet Union after the Second World War was known as the policy of non-alignment.

1. The Non-Alignment Policy-gave rise to the Non-Aligned Movement in the world.
2. The Non-aligned or say neutral nations aimed at overall development while maintaining their individual existence.
3. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group or an organisation of states. It is also called the Non-Alignment Council.
4. This Council consists of 23 Asian countries as well as 6 Asian countries. The Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) organisation was found in 1961 in Belgrade, Yogoslavia.
5. This movement got a positive support from India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s first President Sukarno, Egypt’s second President Garmal Abdel Nasser Hussein, Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah and Yugoslavia’s President Josip Broz Tito.
6. The policies of NAM were framed under the leadership of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
7. Nehru believed that this movement continues to see a role for itself.
8. As per him the movement can view that the world’s poorest nations remain exploited and marginalised no more by opposing superpowers, but instead in a uni-polar world.
9. He also believed that NAM has realigned itself due to the dominance of the western countries and their colonialism.
10. The NAM opposes foreign occupation, interference in internal affairs and aggressive unilateral measures.
11. The Non-Aligned Movement has identified economic underdevelopment, poverty, and social injustices as growing threats to peace and security.
12. Today more and more countries have joined the Non-Alignment Movement.
13. The 13 th Union Summit of NAM was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysis on 13th May, 2003.
14. Last four decades have witnessed many important events at world level.
15. A few of them are disintegration of Soviet Union and hence decrease in the power of Russia, America emerged as a superpower, decrease of imperial policy, etc.
16. The NAM has played a very important role in these situations.