Posted on 10th September 2013 19:00 hrs
1. Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies.
Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems theory.
2. Key concepts in International Relations: National interest, Security and power; Balance of power and deterrence; Transnational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation.
3. Changing International Political Order:
5. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and functioning; need for UN reforms.
6. Regionalisation of World Politics: European Union, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NATO,OPEC.
7. Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice, terrorism, nuclear proliferation.
India and the World:
1. Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making; continuity and change.
2. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; current role
3. India and South Asia:
5. India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.
6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council.
7. India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy.
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: India’s position on the recent crisis in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; vision of a new world order.
Posted on 10th September 2013 18:44:34
UPSC Civil Services Syllabus of International Relations
International Relations1. Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies.
Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems theory.
2. Key concepts in International Relations: National interest, Security and power; Balance of power and deterrence; Transnational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation.
3. Changing International Political Order:
- Rise of super powers; strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and Cold War; nuclear threat;
- Non-al igned movement : Aims and achievements;
- Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world.
5. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and functioning; need for UN reforms.
6. Regionalisation of World Politics: European Union, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NATO,OPEC.
7. Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice, terrorism, nuclear proliferation.
India and the World:
1. Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making; continuity and change.
2. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; current role
3. India and South Asia:
- Regional Co-operation: SAARC – past performance and future prospects.
- South Asia as a Free Trade Area.
- India’s “Look East” policy.
- Impediments to regional co-operation: river water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; border disputes.
5. India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.
6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council.
7. India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy.
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: India’s position on the recent crisis in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; vision of a new world order.
Posted on 10th September 2013 18:44:34
India-USA Homeland Security Relations
Source- Ministry of External Affairs
Counter-terrorism Cooperation
Cooperation in counter terrorism has seen considerable progress over the last few
years. A new India-US Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Initiative was signed in 2010 to
expand collaboration on counter-terrorism, information sharing and capacity building.
Separately functional level cooperation on counter-terrorism is being pursued through a
Joint Working Group (JWG) on Counter Terrorism that was established in January
2000. The 12th meeting of the JWG was held in New Delhi in March 2011. A new
Homeland Security Dialogue was also announced during President Obama’s visit to
India in November 2010 to further deepen operational cooperation, counter-terrorism
technology transfers and capacity building. The US Secretary of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano visited India in May 2011 to hold the first round of this dialogue with
Home Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram. The next meeting of this Dialogue will be held in
the US in 2012.
Defence Cooperation
The ‘New Framework for India-US Defence Relationship’ was signed between the two
sides on June 28, 2005. Both sides have agreed to pursue mutually beneficial defence
cooperation through the existing security dialogue, service level exchanges, defence
exercises and defence trade and technology transfer and collaboration. India’s defence
orders from U.S. companies have reached a cumulative value of over USD 8.0 billion in
the last decade. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited India in January 2009. Raksha
Mantri Shri A.K. Antony visited Washington in September 2010. Apart from the
Ministerial level exchange, there are exchanges between each of the Services, with
regular joint exercises.
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