{"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":"2026-08-09T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:34","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>&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\">pooled comparative advantage: Emirati capital + location \/ Israeli technology \/ Indian scale &#8211; two concrete projects: $2bn food parks, 300 MW Gujarat hybrid \u2014 India as producer and supply- chain node, not buyer of energy and exporter of labour &gt; political payoff: Washington outside the Indo-Pacific without alliance + de-hyphenation + alternative to Chinese economic presence -\u2014&gt; Saraswat, \u201ctransformational\u201d \u2014 IMEC (Sept 2023) extends the same logic<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">hard security excluded by design &#8211; momentum slowed after October 2023 \u2014 Vakil: Palestine question + Gulf rivalries weaken political cohesion \u2014 2026 Iran war, Hormuz closure, Chabahar waiver lapse \u2014 exposure sits where the grouping does not reach<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">aah =R1 economic architecture gained, strategic architecture not yet routes R2 Look West now has a delivery mechanism, but its security test lies outside [2U2\u2019s remit<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"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":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1548\/revisions\/3387"}],"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}]}}