UNPEGGING THE THIRD SPHERE OF THE WORLD ORDER: INDIA AND YUGOSLAVIA IN THE 1990S
UNPEGGING THE THIRD SPHERE OF THE WORLD ORDER: INDIA AND YUGOSLAVIA IN THE 1990S

Author(s): Ramachandra Byrappa
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, International Law, Geopolitics
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: Third Sphere; Non-Alignment; Eurasia; India; Yugoslavia; Southernization; Westernization
Summary/Abstract: The ripples of NATO’s attack on the Former Republic of Yugoslavia reached India with devastation. It was a tectonic moment of realisation that India has to move out of the comfort zone of false illusions and face the hard realities of the new shifts in international dynamics and alignments. The NATO’s bombing of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia came as the third and a consequential blow to India, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the financial crisis of the early 1990s. These three blows shattered the three-level architecture that India had crafted over the preceding 50 years. My main question is: Was the United States of America and its allies punishing India and Yugoslavia because of their perceived proximity with post-Soviet Russia or was it for reasons of a systemic nature? My major hypothesis is that NATO’s aggression should be put into a systemic context and understood in the longue durée, in terms of structural domination and the control of the world’s resources.

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