APC | Contemporary World Politics | Part A | Class 12 |

The Seventh Edition of the book ‘Contemporary World Politics’ (for Class XII) incorporates the following major changes from the book’s earlier editions.

• There began a period of hostility and tension between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers soon after the Second World War. That was the era of Cold War. The US and the Soviet Union both tried to attract India to their respective camps, with offers of benefits arising naturally from an association with the Global Powers. But we refused to be “the plaything of others”. Under India’s leasdership most of the Afro-Asian nations approved the “basic general principles of Non-alignment”. The 18^th Non-aligned Summit was held at Baku in Azerbaijan in 2019 (Chapter 1).