Societal Conditions of the Policy of Nonalignment

Abstract

The policy of non-engagement arose in the period after the Second World War as a response to the beginning process of creating two antagonistic blocs. The very label given to her by her protagonists defines her negatively, i.e. as a policy of non-participation in groups, military pacts or political blocs. Whatever language we use the term always contains a negation or non-participation in these creations of the Cold War.

This has led many analysts and politicians to regard non-alignment as a kind of peaceful neutrality for the policy of tactics between the centers of individual blocks or for efforts to maintain the same distance between individual blocks (equidistance). This opinion on the policy of non-engagement obviously did not always stem from a misunderstanding or superficiality, but often from a deliberate underestimation of this policy or an effort to disparage it.

This fact needs to be particularly emphasized, because one of the main methods of combating the policy of non-alignment during the Cold War was the effort to hide the goals and content of this policy with a veil of obscurity or to distort them. In this regard, bloc-oriented propaganda has made significant efforts for many years and has also achieved certain results in various directions. One of them was the effort of the bearers of the policy of non-engagement to consider this policy as a new, original and comprehensive world view. It was, in a certain sense, a reaction to the contempt and criticism of the Zf.. party of the blocs.