The Legacy of Global Non-Alignment: How Small Countries and Middle Power Navigate in a Multipolar World?

In the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement gathered a significant portion of the global population as its members were populous countries that wanted to avoid being entangled with competing superpowers of that time. The Non-Aligned Movement still exists but it has never been able to reclaim the status it had during the Cold War. However, in the multipolar world and with the ongoing war in Ukraine, neutrality and the non-alignment is back as tactical foreign policy principle as countries around the world have tried to hedge their bets by conducting multi-vector foreign policy and engage with multiple global and regional powers. How do these countries perceive the world and what guides their policies?