Nam Summit : New Delhi to Harare

The nonaligned movement comprising more than 100 nation-states, represc ing over 1700 million people, is today a formidable force in the United Nations and other international organisations it has changed the complexion of the Commonwealth and plays an impor tant role in the struggle of the develop ing countries for social and economic emancipation. The evolution of the movement, therefore, needs to be seen in a historic perspective not only in terms of one summit to another but also as a continuously emerging force against imperialist and neocolonialist Though the last citadel of in South Africa is yet to be dismantled, the movement has been in creasingly concerned with the problems of peace and disarmament in the face of threats of a nuclear holocaust. In this context Harare would indeed be a major landmark in the history of the movement, for it is Africa that contin os to witness the intense struggle of its prople to cast away the last shackles of colonialium

It is in this scenario that distin guished scholars have attempted in this volume to examine the role of the nonaligned movement in the present nternational evation, particularly when the movement is completing its twenty-five years.

Divided into four broad sections global significance of the nonaligned movement, India and nonalignment, NAM and Africa and problems of de velopment and disarmament - the book inquires into the entire gamut of theory and practice of nonalignment in a fresh perspective.