Hal Brands, Columnist

Some Countries Belong on the Sidelines of Cold War 2

India and other nonaligned nations walked a tightrope in the U.S.-USSR showdown, and may need to do the same again.

Nonaligned lineup: Tito, Nehru, Nasser.

Source: AFP/Getty Images

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The war in Ukraine has sharpened the fundamental tension in global politics, between the advanced democracies protecting a threatened international order and the Eurasian autocracies — China and Russia — assailing it.

But the world isn’t simply fragmenting into opposing camps: Countries on several continents are declaring neutrality.