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Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Non-alignment as a strategy evolved in the Cold War context.

............ with the disintegration of USSR and the end of Cold War in 1991, non-alignment, both, as an international movement and as the core of India's foreign policy, lost some of its earlier relevance and effectiveness.

(i) Why did India adopt non - alignment?

(ii) Explain any two reasons for the loss of its relevance by the Non-Aligned Movement.

(iii) How far do you agree that the Non-Aligned Movement has become an international movement?

 

Answer:

(i) India adopted Non-alignment to make international policies and decisions in a free manner and to actively intervene in world affairs to soften Cold War Rivalries?.

(ii) Both as an International movement and as the core of the India?s foreign policy, lost some of its earlier relevance and effectiveness.

(iii) NAM has become an international movement because it is based on a resolve to democratise the international system. It provides an alternative world in order to redress the existing inequalities in various countries, especially the newly independent countries.