PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · Recent Developments in Foreign Policy — Part 1
Critically examine the role of India in shaping the emerging world order.
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
FLUW ONAFOMYI — now tHe answer moves R1 unipolar moment over > not multipolar but multiplex (Acharya) — judge India against this > reformist bridge, agenda-setter not rule-maker R2 emerging order = many consequential actors + issue-specific leadership + rising Global South — read India through this lens > bridge, not rule-writer
Body flow
multi-alignment as instrument > Raja Mohan (non-alignment — multi-alignment: Quad + BRICS + SCO + Russia) > Jaishankar (autonomy: inaction — action) > Bajpaee (bridge West-Global South, reformist not revisionist) concretes: UNSC reform, I2U2, IMEC, AU into G20, “One Earth, One Family, One Future”
Counter-view
aspiration outruns capacity > Jain (“leading power” claim) vs Farwa (transactionalism — China security dilemma — “lack of real partners”) > in a multiplex order leadership earned issue- by-issue — China gap + contested Global-South stewardship (Brazil, Indonesia) + balancer, not pole
Conclusion routes
R1 India shapes by mediating West-South, not by writing rules routes ‘,, R2 balancer — leading state only if flexible autonomy matures into consistent leadership
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
