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nonalignment       Search catalogue 294928936

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
niet-gebondenheid

IND
1

MIS
The position of those who remained allied to neither side in the Cold War. They were mostly African and Asian States, who commanded a majority in the United Nations. In 1955 many of them met at Bandung and led by Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, adopted policies of neutralism and working for decolonization. At their first summit in Belgrade in 1961 they called themselves the Non-Aligned Movement. By 1989 they had about 100 members. The collapse of Communism, the end of the Cold War and regional conflicts to some extent resulting from it, have thrown non-alignment as a strategy into some disarray ('non-alignment', The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science. Accessed on 30 January 2003 at www.xreferplus.com/entry/725519).

PPN
294928936

UDC
327.11

SN
Position of neutrality vis-à-vis the United States and the former USSR adopted during the Cold War by several, mostly African and Asian, States. At a summit in Belgrade in 1961 they established the Nonaligned Movement, which by 1989 had some 100 members.

MRF
327.55

BT1
foreign policy

UF
non-alignment

RT
Afro-Asian solidarity
Bandung Conference
blocs
neutralism

BSO
02.01 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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