PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · India & the Global South
Discuss the potential role that India could play as the leader of the Global South in realising the goal of
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
21st century.
Body flow
Rr! 1974 Declaration > rules written before most of the South existed as states = demand failed for want of power, not justification R2 what the old coalition lacked > capability + a seat where rules are settled → India’s potential = supplying both
Counter-view
presence first > AU into G20, 2023 → three VOGSS widen the table > BRICS chair 2026 > Kahler’s fork: reform inside / build alongside → India in both tracks – second lever, capability → cannot match Chinese depth → offers what can be copied: DPI, ISA, Global Development Compact 2024 — Narlikar: veto-player + agenda-setter
Conclusion routes
agenda-setting # rule-making — 16th IMF review moves no share ~ two-fifths of votes on three-fifths of output ~ Yaoundé 2026: public stockholding refused again, pending since Bali 2013 + UN tax rules authored by the Africa Group, not India > Taylor: solidarity weakens as a power rises R1 potential is conditional + order moves when convening is hele spent onrules R2 leadership proved by demands India did not author
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
