The Bandung Conference and Third Worldism
The birth of the Non-Aligned Movement and the search for a "Third Way".
Key Questions
- 1What were the objectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference?
- 2How did the "Spirit of Bandung" challenge the bipolar world order?
- 3Why did the unity of the Third World prove difficult to maintain?
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