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From the Margins to the Centre: The Construction of the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace and the Non-Aligned Movement's Imagination of a New World Order (1964-1980)

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DOI: 10.23977/polsr.2024.050201 | Downloads: 14 | Views: 373

Author(s)

Wu Yifeng 1, Gao Zhiping 1

Affiliation(s)

1 College of History and Culture, Hubei University, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, 430062, China

Corresponding Author

Wu Yifeng

ABSTRACT

After the Second World War, Britain's influence gradually contracted from the Indian Ocean region, and the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, began to expand their own spheres of influence in the Indian Ocean by virtue of their military power, which seriously affected the security of the Indian Ocean littoral and landlocked countries and regions. At the same time, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was established in the region after the Bandung Conference, and became an international organisation representing the voices of the Third World countries. As a result, the Indian Ocean littoral and landlocked countries began to make use of the platform of the Non-Aligned Movement to propose to the United Nations to build a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean, and this proposal was adopted by the United Nations. In contrast to the unjust world system established by the two superpowers after the Second World War, the idea and intention of the Indian Ocean Peace Zone is an attempt to build a new world order based on independence, autonomy, peace and co-operation.  Today, the struggle for this process continues in the global South, and from this perspective, the Indian Ocean region has gone from being a peripheral zone in the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union to becoming the centre for the construction of a new type of world order.

KEYWORDS

Non-Aligned Movement, Indian Ocean Zone of Peace, New World Order, Third World

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Wu Yifeng, Gao Zhiping, From the Margins to the Centre: The Construction of the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace and the Non-Aligned Movement's Imagination of a New World Order (1964-1980). Journal of Political Science Research (2024) Vol. 5: 1-15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/polsr.2024.050201.

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