The Cold war rivalry was a first of its kind since it remained an ideological power struggle. It was an attempt to maintain a balance of power but never resulted in a hot war between the two superpowers. The Western bloc, led by the US represented the ideology of liberal democracy while the Eastern bloc, led by the USSR thrived on the idea of socialism and communism. The impact of the Cold war was that it set all the other nation states into a path of arms race and there was a constant fear among them that the war can turn into a hot war at any point. The development and progress of the world was affected by the military interventions of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and Warsaw Pact- the military alliances of the US and USSR respectively. The terms North and South are used in the political discourse to describe the relationship between the developed countries on the one hand and the developing or the underdeveloped on the other. It was not until the end of the Second World War, where much of the old world order had been destroyed, was the issue of the development of the South undertaken by the North. In hindsight,it can be said that the rising influence of the anti-colonial struggle and the declining power of the European colonial states resulted in the strategic importance that the countries of the South got because of the Cold War competition. While the countries of the South were put under one bracket, the fact is that they differed with each other tremendously in terms of their size, their cultural traditions, their geographies , as well as their political constitutions and beliefs. However, they all shared a common struggle- a struggle for independence from their former imperial powers. The Bandung Conference in Indonesia in 1955, marked the beginning of the rise of the South in International politics. It was at this conference, where leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno declared their will to play an independent role in world politics. The leaders of 29 independent Asian and African states gathered in Bandung in Indonesia for the Afro- Asian Conference. The states attending represented 1.5 billion people, around 60% of the world population at that time. The Bandung conference marked the end of colonialism, but it also marked the beginning of the Cold War in Asia and Africa. The main question addressed at the conference was the constitution of the new world order and the position held by different states in this order.Nehru, Sukarno, Nasser- all criticised their colleagues for participating in the military blocs of superpowers. Nehru’s account of the world order was different from a typical structural realist accord- the issue of military pacts represents a cleavage between the ‘big and powerful countries’ on the one hand and the ‘weak and small Asian countries’ on the other, where the former operated a ‘sphere of influence’ (Kristinsson 2012, p.43). The kind of impact the countries of the South had on the Cold War is evident with the reaction of the US regarding the Bandung conference. Prior to the conference, the US had made efforts to counter the influence of neutral countries such as that of India and also offered guidance to th>