The second part is which is called the bilateral groupings.Whether it is a Maritime border with respect to Maldives or Sri Lanka or a land boundary with the rest of the people. In the neighborhood, our interest is only to cover the countries that we are having a border with. So, this is very different from the neighborhood. First thing is that the syllabus subtopic talks about the agreements involving India or affecting India’s interests bilaterally.IR-Syllabus: Bi-lateral groupings & Agreementsīilateral regional global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interest. Right now let’s proceed to the second IR topic of the UPSC Mains syllabus… The testing of knowledge of an aspirant with respect to neighborhood. Now, there are different ways of testing it.So, that is the precise reason why UPSC also wants to test the aspirants on the particular topic called India and its neighborhood.Therefore, India invests a lot of diplomatic energy also on the neighborhood. Any country that wants to become a global power has to have a stable peaceful neighborhood.The neighborhood of India is very very crucial for the Indian Foreign Policy, because what we do with respect to our neighborhood are the foreign policy level has a repercussion on India’s international image because India wants to become a global power.Maldives also we consider that as a part of our neighborhood only because it’s an island territory geographically proximity to us. So, basically the entire neighborhood is the countries that include Afghanistan, Pakistan they include China, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal.So, neighborhood as Indian Foreign Policy perceives is actually that extent of the countries which ranges all the way starting from Afghanistan and then covering and coming all the way uptill Myanmar. First, let’s try to define what is ‘neighborhood’.The first topic is India’s relationship with the neighborhood.So, if you look at the GS Mains Paper-II prescribed by the UPSC in their official notification, these are the 4 topics which are mentioned outrightly very clearly in our syllabus. But it may not be in a very aggressive manner, it may be in a silent and dormant manner but it will be there in the news. IF you’re giving Mains exam for the first time, you may not be knowing last 2 or 3 years of current affairs, but there is a trick here, that one question is usually about a particular country which remains in the news in the last 1 year. Because is not related to the last year current affairs, it is related to say for example 2 or 3 years old current affairs.
Suppose UPSC asks four IR questions, then usually the breakup is like this:
So every year, in GSM2 three to four questions worth 45 marks to 60 marks (out of 250) come from IR / Diplomacy.
#MUST READ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BOOKS HOW TO#
In this five part series, I’ll covering how to prepare International relations (IR) / diplomacy for UPSC Mains General Studies PaperII, as well as the art of answer writing with sample questions from previous years papers.
0 kommentar(er)
