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Non-Alignment in the Era of the Global South

18 Jul 2024

Introduction The 19 th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), held in January this year and hosted by Uganda, carried the theme, ‘Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence’. [1] About 4,000 guests from different member states, including leaders from nearly all the 120 member countries of NAM, attended the summit. The Kampala Outcome document was then adopted by the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the attending countries and later announced at the Heads of State summit. [2] In the 69 years since NAM’s inception, Uganda is only the fifth African country—after South Africa, Zimbabwe, Algeria and Egypt—to host a NAM Summit. [3] Now that an African nation will head NAM for the next three years, in what ways can the continent benefit? This paper examines the current state of NAM against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving international order, making the case that some of the organisation’s founding objectives have taken on new forms while others are still relevant.
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Authors

Samir Bhattacharya

Attribution
Samir Bhattacharya, “Non-Alignment in the Era of the Global South,” ORF Occasional Paper No. 443 , July 2024, Observer Research Foundation.
Pages
24
Published in
India

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