PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · Recent Developments in Foreign Policy — Part 2
How does India-Israel bilateral ties reflect the autonomy of India’s foreign policy choices?
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
PRI autonomy = freedom of decision, not standing apart — Israel ties the sharpest live test | R2 | India deepens Israel while holding Arab/Iran/Palestine — simultaneity, not closeness, proves autonomy
Body flow
_ de-hyphenation, separate tracks judged on merit — Taneja: balancing /hedging /mediating in a fraying order + Sebastian: engaging all sides — 1950 recognition / 1992 full ties / Modi 2017 by choice, not bloc — issue-based cooperation for payoff (Barak-8, 27 CoEs, Haifa, IMEC/12U2) — Hameed: bilateral — minilateral — Jaishankar: most-trusted partner set inside a multipolar world of autonomous decision-centres — autonomy under pressure (Palestine aid, settlement votes, June 2025 abstention, Global South) — Gupta: Palestine anchoring + P.P. Singh: strategic neutrality in 2025 crisis
Counter-view
_ de-hyphenation as drift from Palestine solidarity toward Israel reciprocity (peer-reviewed) — Haidar: abstentionism ambiguous — US-Israel tilt vs genuine independence
Conclusion routes
PRI values-based partnership converted into strategic asset while retaining freedom to decide in a fracturing order, calibration is autonomy’s proof, not its erosion
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
