3.2. Arguments in the Context of Irrelevance of NAM

NAM has been pronounced irrelevant increasingly since the end of Cold War and especially since the advent of the 21st century. In 2007 the then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice advised India to “move past old ways of thinking” as the Non-Aligned Movement had lost its meaning. Ever since the inception of NAM some commentators had felt that the:

♤ Word ‘non-alignment’ conveyed the wrong notion of neutrality and it only aimed at remaining unaligned.and cultural legacies.India’s views on many global issues such as:3.2.2. A Contemporary Assessment ♤ ASEAN-centred institutions,