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In April 1955, twenty-nine nations of Asia and Africa convened in Bandung, Indonesia – the first large-scale summit of newly decolonized countries. The world was still reeling from World War II, with the Cold WarCold War The geopolitical and ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that dominated global politics from 1947 to 1991. It was fought not through direct military conflict between the superpowers but through proxy wars, arms races, espionage, and ideological competition across the developing world. The Cold War began before the Second World War had fully ended: American and Soviet disagreements over the…