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emains a rallying cry in contemporary international relations, especially as apotential foil for latter-day Western interventionism.2.3 Internationalism and solidarity outside the WestInternationalism has long been a feature of the foreign policies of significant statesin the developing world. This form of internationalism came to be characterised byfour key features, namely: solidarity among developing states (or South-Southsolidarity); commitment to the non-use of force in the resolution of internationalconflicts; a commitment to non-inteference in the internal affairs of other states;and, the commitment to multilateralism.Solidarity has been a defining feature of the foreign policies of developing statessince the early years of independence. ‘Solidarity’ is defined as “Holding together,mutual dependence, community of interests, feelings, and action”. 109 Thisperspective informed the aforementioned internationalist foreign policies of theNordic states during the latter decades of the Cold War 110 . Yet, from the case ofCuba’s involvement in Angola’s civil war between 1975 and 1976, 111 to widespreadsupport for Palestinian statehood, what are here termed ‘third worldinternationalisms’ have been narrowly defined and infrequently analysed in theInternational Relations literature. 112The primary elements of a distinctly ‘Third World’ internationalism began tocrystallise at Bandung in 1955, at the Asian-African Conference. The realisation oftheir common concerns in international affairs led African and Asian leaders to startmeeting in the late 1950s, and to begin to constitute a common identity distinct109 Oxford English Dictionary.110 See Lawler, “The Good State”, 443.111 The declassification of Cuban government documents relating to the mid-1970smission in Angola lent credence to the contention that this mission was not conductedupon the instigation of the USSR, and hence was not a clear example of socialistinternationalism. See ‘The National Security Archive: Conflicting Missions: Secret CubanDocuments on History of African Involvement’. Accessed at:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB67/ on 11 December 2007.112 Exceptions from cognate fields include: Richard L. Harris, “Cuban Internationalism,Che Guevara, and the Survival of Cuba’s Socialist Regime”, Latin AmericanPerspectives, 36, No.27 (2009); John M. Kirk, “Cuba’s Medical Internationalism:Development and Rationale”, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28, No.4 (2009).65