{"id":1519,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/explain-the-major-features-of-indias-foreign-policy-in-the-2ist-upsc-psir-2023-3908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:32","slug":"explain-the-major-features-of-indias-foreign-policy-in-the-2ist-upsc-psir-2023-3908","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/explain-the-major-features-of-indias-foreign-policy-in-the-2ist-upsc-psir-2023-3908\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain the major features of India&#8217;s Foreign Policy in the 2ist century."},"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\">RX!-_\u2014\u00ab 21st-century IFP breaks from Cold War non-alignment \u2192 proactive engagement on many fronts R2 defining feature = multi-alignment \u2192 strategic autonomy held with many partners at once (Raja Mohan)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">multi-alignment (Raja Mohan: US, Russia, France, Japan, ASEAN) \u2192 Neighbourhood First (co-existence, connectivity, development) \u2192 Act East (from Look East, balance China) \u2192 economic diplomacy (Pant: Make in India, Digital India, FTAs) \u2192 multilateral activism (Tharoor: UN, BRICS, G20, SCO, UNSC bid) \u2192 security (Quad, maritime, counter-terror) \u2192 soft power (vaccine diplomacy, ISA, diaspora, Indo-Pacific)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">_ features look like a qualitative break, but rest on continuity \u2192 autonomy now pursued through engagement, not distance (new means, old value)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">nelusion routes R1 many new instruments, one constant thread \u2014 strategic autonomy R2 move from reactive non-alignment to proactive multi- alignment reads as evolution, not rupture \u2014 old principles carried into new priorities<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[34],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[81],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1519","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-34","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-indian-foreign-policy","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1519","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\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1519\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}