{"id":245866,"date":"2023-06-01T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=245866"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:00:16","slug":"getting-multipolarity-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/getting-multipolarity-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting multipolarity wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cGetting multipolarity wrong\u201d <\/strong>published in the \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d <\/strong>on 1st June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- International relations<\/p>\n

Relevance- <\/strong>Shape and structure of world order<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– In his article C. Raja Mohan \u2018India\u2019s multipolar myths<\/strong>\u2019 C. Raja Mohan has dismissed the long held view that the emerging structure of power among nation-states as \u201cmultipolar\u201d. It is a myth.<\/p>\n

What is criticism against the Raja Mohan viewpoints about multipolarity?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Raja Mohan is wrong to imply that the concept of multipolarity suggests an \u201ceven distribution of power between major powers\u201d<\/strong>. The literature on multipolarity<\/strong> does not talk about even distribution of power.<\/p>\n

Multipolarity suggests that no single nation-state or two nation-states have the capacity to exert their power globally<\/strong>. Hence, they must work along with other powers.<\/p>\n

Raja Mohan is also wrong to presume that nations that advocate multipolarity<\/strong> have political resentment<\/strong> against US power or collective West.\u00a0 This has certainly not been the case with Indian articulation, even during the Cold War era.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s refusal to join any military alliance<\/strong> was not based on anti-westernism or anti-communism.<\/strong> It was based on an Indian view that was against such a division of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even American scholars have not always viewed the concept of multipolarity as \u201canti-Ame<\/strong>rican\u201d. Samuel Huntington has characterised the post-Cold War distribution of power <\/strong>in the 1990s as \u201cuni-multipolar\u201d, rather than \u201cunipolar\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Huntington proposed that global politics has now moved from a unipolar moment<\/strong> at the end of the Cold War into more uni-multipolar decades<\/strong>. It will culminate into a multipolar twenty-first century.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As per Raja Mohan, the world is once again \u201cbipolar\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 US and EU vs China and Russia. It underplays the space available for the articulation of national interests of \u201cmiddle powers\u201d. Many nations in Europe, Latin America and Asia assert their own national interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How has India taken an independent stance in foreign policy choices?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Attempts to push India into a lonely corner, forcing it to make choices and enter into alliances <\/strong>have failed in the past. Then, it was a weaker and less developed nation. <\/strong><\/p>\n

A stronger and more self-confident <\/strong>India cannot be expected to fall in line<\/strong>. India\u2019s relations with the US, China, Russia or any other nation, would be defined by her interests and values<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cGetting multipolarity wrong\u201d published in the \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 1st June 2023. Syllabus: GS2- International relations Relevance- Shape and structure of world order News– In his article C. Raja Mohan \u2018India\u2019s multipolar myths\u2019 C. Raja Mohan has dismissed the long held view that the emerging structure… Continue reading Getting multipolarity wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-245866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703678607},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}