Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams

Paper - II

Section-A

• Approaches to the study of comparative politics : traditional approaches; political economy, political sociology or political system approaches; Nature of political process in the Third World.
• The Modern State : Evolution, the contemporary trends in the advanced industrial countries and the third world.
• Development : Strategies and contemporary discourse.
• Concepts of International politics : Power, national interest, balance of power, national security, collective security and peace.
• Theories of International politics Marxist, Realist, Systems, Decision-making and Game Theory.
• Determinants of foreign policy : Domestic compulsions, geopolitics, geoeconomics and global order.
• Origin and contemporary relevance of the Cold War, nature of the post-cold war global order.
• Major issues of world politics : Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam War, Oil Crisis, Afghan Civil War, Gulf War, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslav Crisis.
• Non-alignment : Concept and movement; Third World Movements for global justice, Non-alignment in the post cold war era.
• The evolution of the international economic system-from Bretton woods to WTO, the North-South dimension.
• International organisations UN and its specialized agencies : International Court of Justice; ILO, UNICEF, WHO UNESCO.
• Regional, organizations such as the ASEAN, APEC, EU, SAARC, NAFTA
• Contemporary Global Concerns : Democracy, Human Rights, Ecology, Gender Justice, Global commons, Communication.

Section-B

• Indian Foreign Policy : Historical origins, determinants; the institutions of policy-making; continuity and change.
• India and the Non-Alignment Movement : Evolution and contemporary relevance. Socio- political basis of non-alignment-domestic and global.
• Major issues in Indian foreign policy : Sino-Indian Border War (1962); Indo-Pakistan War (1971) and the liberation of Bangladesh; IPKF in Sri Lanka; India as military nuclear power (1998).
• Conflict and co-operation in South Asia : India's relations with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal. Regional co-operation and SAARC. Kashmir question in India's foreign policy.
• India's relation with Africa and Latin America.
• India and South East Asia; ASEAN.
• India and the major powers : USA, EU, China, Japan and Russia.
• India and the UN System : India's role in UN Peace Keeping and global disarmament.
• India and the emerging international economic order; multilateral agencies-WTO, IMF, IBRD, ADB.
• India and the question of nuclear weapons : NPT and CTBT.

Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams