Monday, April 25, 2011

Political Science Main Exam Paper Two

civil service Political Science Main Exam Paper Two
               PAPER-II
 COMPARATIVE POLITICWS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SECTION-A: COMPARATIVE ANALUSIS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1. Approaches to the study of comparative politics: traditional approaches; political economy, political sociology or political system approaches; Nature of political process in te Third World
2. The Modern State: Evolution, the contemporary trends in the advanced industrial countries and the third world
3. Development: Strategies and contemporary discourse.
 4. Concepts of international politics: Power, national interest, balance of power, national security collective security and peace
 5. Theories of International politics: Marxist, Realist, Systems, Decision-making and Game Theory
6. Determinants of foreign policy: domestic compulsions, geopolitics, geoeconomics and global order.
 7. Origin and contemporary relevance of the Gold War, nature of the post-cold war global order
8. Major issues of world politics: Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam War, Oil Crisis, Afghan Civil War Gulf War, Collapse of the Soviet  Union, Yugoslav Crisis
9. Non-alignment: Concept and movement; Third World movements for global justice, on-alignment in the post cold war era
 10.The evolution of the international economic system-from Breton woods to WTO ,the North-South dimension
11.International organizations UN and its specialized agencies: International Court of jusice;ILO ,UNICEF,WHO, UNESCO
12 Regional, organizations such as the ASEAN,APEC, EU,SAARC, NAFTA
13 Contemporary Global Concerns:Democracy,Human Rights, Ecology, Gender Justice, Global commons, Communications
section-B:India and the World
 1. Indian Foreign policy: Historical origins, determinants; the institutions of policy-making; continuity and change
2. India and the Non -Alignment movement: Evolution and contemporary relevance, Socio-political basis of non-alignment-domestic and global
3. 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)
4 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
5. India’s relation with Africa and Latin America
6. India and South East Asia; ASEAN
7 India and the major powers: USA, EU, China, Japan and Russia
8. India and the UN System: India’s role in UN peace keeping and global disarmament.
 9. India and the emerging international economic order; multilateral agencies-ATO, IMF, IBRD, ADB
10 India and the question of nuclear weapons: NPT and CTBT

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