{"id":1455,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-endorse-the-view-that-the-end-of-bipolarity-and-the-rise-upsc-psir-2017-3303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:29","slug":"do-you-endorse-the-view-that-the-end-of-bipolarity-and-the-rise-upsc-psir-2017-3303","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-endorse-the-view-that-the-end-of-bipolarity-and-the-rise-upsc-psir-2017-3303\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you endorse the view that the end of Bipolarity and the rise of multiple regional organisations has made"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">= Pate \u2014 is, &#8211; ay te re wr sl 4 \u2019 ty =]. = Fe {&gt; NA NFA KHPA HH x { Ne i] ee. A. = a iii i \u2192 L. Le &quot; &quot;j y \u2018: &lt; ee Pa he es<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">OE INTRO ROUTES R1 non-alignment # neutrality (Schwarzenberger) \u2014 negative base: stay out of military alliances \u2014 positive base: independence of judgment (Belgrade, 1961) \u2014 the question&#039;s two changes hit only the first base \u2014 endorse in part R2 NAM born to escape two camps \u2014 camps gone, groupings multiplied \u2014 real question: was bloc-avoidance ever the whole of non-alignment? \u2014 endorse in part<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">BODY FLOW the two bases \u2014 end of bipolarity empties the negative base \u2014 the positive base is untouched \u2014 Sreenivasan: freedom of judgment and action, valid whether one bloc or two \u2014 Paul: limited soft balancing, naming and shaming \u2014 partial credit for decolonisation, containing proliferation, easing bipolar tension \u2014 regional bodies work within regions; NAM&#039;s field is the Global South, its work normative<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">COUNTER-VIEW Kochler: NAM fitted the bipolar era alone; objectives redundant; members lean on the US; no charter, statute or secretariat \u2014 G-7 \/ ASEAN \/ SCO \/ BRICS carry the economic agenda NAM never built \u2014\u00bb Raja Mohan: a movement in a &quot;state of coma&quot; CONCLUSION ROUTES R1 structural charge sticks, irrelevance charge fails \u2192 Jaishankar: independence of action continues as strategic autonomy \u2014 less central, not irrelevant R2 relevance has shifted, not ended \u2014 from bloc-avoidance to Global South voice and soft-balancing platform \u2014 &quot;shifting and variable coalitions rather than settled alliances&quot;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[45],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[76],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1455","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-45","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-changing-international-political-order","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1455\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}