This volume is published by Routledge in its “Studies in the Modern History of Asia” series. The three editors—Nada Boškovska, Nataša Mišković, and Harald Fischer-Tiné—are Swiss scholars at the University of Zurich, the University of Basel, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, respectively. Fischer-Tiné is a specialist on South Asian colonial history; Mišković and Boškovska focus primarily on different aspects of Yugoslav history. Although the listing of three editors might imply that the book is polished and unified, with essays smoothly grouped around the general topic, these texts are in fact uneven. Several would fit better in volumes unconnected with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

The book consists mainly of revised versions of papers presented at an international conference organized in Zurich in 2011 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first Non-Aligned conference in Belgrade. Three important institutions—the University of Zurich, ETH Zürich, and the Nehru...

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