Do you agree with the view that the Indian Foreign Policy is increasingly being shaped by the Neoliberal outlook? Elaborate
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 neoliberal FP = minimal regulation + free trade → Keohane & Nye: complex interdependence sustains peace → India shows a growing imprint
Route 2 from Nehruvian idealism + economic isolation → 1991 LPG reforms as the pivot → neoliberal outlook increasingly visible
Nehruvian isolation → 1991 LPG pushes private sector abroad (Velasco) → markers: Look East ‘93 · India–Africa Summits · US ties · WTO services · FTAs · NDB/AIIB → deeper architecture: DTAAs · Act East · Connect Central Asia
realism persists: surgical strikes, Doklam, Galwan → caution on RCEP/BRI → multi-alignment + strategic autonomy → South–South + egalitarian WTO/UN/climate stands qualify the shift
Route 1 Bajpai: neoliberal position predominates in pragmatic FP → agree, with qualification
Route 2 increasingly visible, but not the single decisive factor → India no prisoner to one stream
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Indian Foreign Policy — 10 questions in the Vault.
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- Explain the major features of India’s Foreign Policy in the 2ist century.
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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