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).>