UPSC Mains POLITICAL-SCIENCE-INTERANATIONAL-RELATIONS-PAPER-II 2013

Identify the elements of change in India's foreign policy.

Sketch the leadership role of India in WTO negotiations.

Examine the recent developments in India-Japan relationship.

Bring out the objectives of India seeking permanent seat in Security Council.

Is India's Nuclear doctrine a viable one ?

Compare and contrast social movements in advanced industrial and developing societies.

Give reasons for Regionalisation of world politics.

Compare and contrast Sino-India approaches to global Environmental concerns.

What roles do norms, taboos and epistemic communities play in the context of nuclear proliferation ?

Substantiate APEC as a regional economic and trade arrangement.

Identify the major changes in the International Political economy in post Cold War period.

Is the rise of social movement a sign of opening up of popular space in political process or decline of representative politics ? Examine.

Highlight the major features of Non-alignment 2.0 document.

Identify the role and place of Gender in the global economy.

Identify the challenges to American hegemony in post Soviet world.

What does the pace of nuclear proliferation in post Cold War suggest?

State the place of Gender Justice in global political agenda.

'Global commons belong to global society and requires global attention.' Comment.

Sketch the journey of global political economy from Washington consensus to the present.

Examine major principles of State centric world views.

How does Marxist approach explain contemporary International Relations ?

'National Interests are Dynamic'. Identify the dynamic nature of National Interests in the contemporary world politics with suitable examples.

'The economic content of India's foreign trade is increasingly growing.' Substantiate the statement with economic diplomatic engagements of India in the last decade.

Write a note on Intellectual precursors of Realism.

'Building 'peace by pieces' is the basis of functionalism.' Elaborate.

'Transnational actors have become driving forces of global politics.' Elaborate.

'A minimal State ensures maximum of Individual Liberty.' Examine the concept of Minimal State.

'Collective Security and Collective Defence are the institutional and State mechanisms to sustain the domination of powers that be in International politics.' Elaborate.