Arvind Gupta’s Article on India’s Participation in NAM Summit Published in New Indian Express
September 6, 2012
Director General, IDSA, Dr Arvind Gupta’s article titled ‘India flounders at NAM’ was published in the New Indian Express on September 6, 2012.
Excerpt
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the 16th NAM summit in Tehran on August 30-31. Having participated in the previous two summits also, his presence in Tehran underlined the importance India continues to attach to the Non-Aligned movement in a post-Cold War era. The PM’s message at the summit was that in order to remain relevant, the movement should reinvent itself by helping resolve contemporary issues of global governance. Over the years, India’s influence in NAM has declined. There is a debate in the country whether NAM is relevant in today’s changed geopolitical circumstances when the Cold War has ended, a multipolar world is in the making and new kinds of global and regional threats have emerged.
