PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · India & the Global South
What diplomatic steps has India taken to articulate the interests of the Global South in International Politics?
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 symbolic participation — institutional leadership — two levers: the room, and the agenda R2 2023 as the turn — a forum India convened + a seat India delivered → every later step sorts into presence or agenda
Body flow
PRESENCE: VOGSS, three editions since 2023, 120+ countries > AU into G20, September 2023 → permanent African UNSC seat, Ezulwini Consensus ~ AGENDA: TRIPS waiver with South Africa ~ food security + public stockholding via G33 = ITEC training, digital public infrastructure → agenda widens to technology: India AI Impact Summit, February 2026, first in the Global South
Counter-view
Narlikar’s test: agenda-setting power, not token representation → Mawdsley: summits as stages for pageantry and promises > permanent solution on public stockholding refused again, Yaounde, March 2026
Conclusion routes
R1 room widened, agenda shaped, rules unmoved R2 presence tebe secured: conversion of consensus into rules is the unfinished step
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
