ABSTRACT
This chapter examines dialectic between the institutionalisation of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the course of the North-South conflict. The history of the NAM is often recounted as if it were a titanic, linear globalisation process, beginning with the Asian-African Conference in Bandung in 1955, or the Conference of non-aligned countries in Belgrade in 1961. Third World Made Aware of its Power, Third World Begins to Flex its Muscles and Non-Aligned Nations Rattle an Economic Sabre, were but a few of the headlines with which British and American newspapers reported on the Algiers conference in September of 1973. Western observers described Algeria during these years as the locomotive, catalyst or consciousness of the Third World. Founded with the aim of decolonising the international information and media sector, and qualifying journalists from non-aligned countries, it rapidly developed into an impressive news network.
