Read the given 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 ?
(i) India adopted Non-alignment inorder to vigoursly pursue independent foreign policy.
(ii) (i)Due to the end of cold war.
(ii) Disintegration of USSR.
(iii) NAM has become an international movement because it is based on a resolve to democratise the international system by thinking about an alternative world order to redress existing inequities. These core ideas remain relevant even after the cold war has ended.
