What advantages or disadvantages might being nonaligned have offered a developing nation during the cold war?

The advantages of being neutral is that you can trade with any country, a disadvantage would be that you would have no allies.Association of Nonaligned Nations

Other developing nations also needed

assistance. They became important players in the Cold War competition between

the United States, the Soviet Union, and later, China. But not all Third World

countries wished to play a role in the Cold War. As mentioned earlier India

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ed to remain neutral. Indonesia, a populous island nation in Southeast Asia,

also struggled to stay uninvolved. In 1955, it hosted many leaders from Asia and

Africa at the Bandung Conference. They met to form what they called a “third

force” of independent countries, or

nonaligned nations

. Some nations, such as

India and Indonesia, were able to maintain their neutrality. But others took sides

with the superpowers or played competing sides against each other.