{"id":1548,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-significance-of-west-asia-quad-in-the-light-of-indias-upsc-psir-2023-4307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:55:24","slug":"discuss-the-significance-of-west-asia-quad-in-the-light-of-indias-upsc-psir-2023-4307","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-significance-of-west-asia-quad-in-the-light-of-indias-upsc-psir-2023-4307\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the significance of \u201cWest Asia Quad\u201d in the light of India\u2019s \u201cLook West\u2019 policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 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\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Oct 2021 foreign ministers <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> July 2022 summit <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> significance is not the \u201cQuad\u201d label but what it did to Look West<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> old Look West = oil, remittances, distance from Arab quarrels <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> I2U2 converts it into a geoeconomic partnership<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>pooled comparative advantage: Emirati capital + location \/ Israeli technology \/ Indian scale <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> two concrete projects: $2bn food parks, 300 MW Gujarat hybrid <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> India as producer and supply-chain node, not buyer of energy and exporter of labour <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> political payoff: Washington outside the Indo-Pacific without alliance + de-hyphenation + alternative to Chinese economic presence <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b>Saraswat<\/b>, \u201ctransformational\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> IMEC (Sept 2023) extends the same logic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>hard security excluded by design <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> momentum slowed after October 2023 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b>Vakil<\/b>: Palestine question + Gulf rivalries weaken political cohesion <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> 2026 Iran war, Hormuz closure, Chabahar waiver lapse <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> exposure sits where the grouping does not reach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> economic architecture gained, strategic architecture not yet<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Look West now has a delivery mechanism, but its security test lies outside I2U2\u2019s remit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","pyq_year":2023,"pyq_marks":15,"pyq_day":43,"pyq_n":7,"pyq_sort":4307,"pyq_topic_name":"South Asia: Regionalism, SAARC & BIMSTEC","pyq_group":"India and South Asia","pyq_paper_name":"Paper 2","pyq_section":"India and the World","pyq_img":"psir-pyq-d43-q07.webp","pyq_key":"d43-q07"},"pyq_year":[34],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[83],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1548","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-34","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-india-and-south-asia","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1548","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1548\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}