CONTENTS
SYLLABUS – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 01
PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS AND THEME MAP 02
SYLLABUS – INTERNAL SECURITY 07
PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS AND THEME MAP 08
Section-1
India & World
11
►MULTILATERALISM AND ASIA 11
►INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN A CHANGING WORLD 12
►DECLINING US HEGEMONY (OR CHANGING WORLD ORDER)
14
►INDIA AND GERMANY 15
►DIASPORA DIPLOMACY 16
►INDIA AND U.S.A 16
►CAATSA 17
►RUSSIA AND INDIAN OCEAN 18
►INDIA AND RUSSIA 18
►RUSSIA-CHINA-INDIA 19
►INDO-PACIFIC GEOPOLITICS 20
►POST BREXIT INDIA-EU RELATIONS 21
►REFUGEE CRISIS 21
►CLIMATE DIPLOMACY FOR INDIA 23
►INDIA AND JAPAN 24
►INDIA & AFRICA 26
►INDIA AND AUSTRALIA 27
►RISE OF THE MINILATERALS 27
Section-2
India & its neighbourhood
29
►INDIA - BANGLADESH RELATIONS 29
►INDIA AND BHUTAN 32
►INDIA AND NEPAL 34
►INDIA- MALDIVES 36
►INDIA- PAKISTAN RELATIONS IN NEW FRAME 37
►INDIA’S ACT EAST POLICY 38
►INDIA AND INDIAN OCEAN REGION 40
►INDIA AND SRI LANKA 42
►AFGHANISTAN PEACE DEAL 44
►INDIA – IRAN 45
►ISRAEL – PALESTINE 48
►INDIA-CHINA 50
►CHINA’S GROWING CHALLENGE TO INDIA IN ITS
NEIGHBOURHOOD 52
Section-3
Groupings
55
►SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION 55
►ASEAN 57
►RCEP 58
►NAM 60
►UNSC REFORMS 61
►INDIA’S NSG ENTRY 63
►SAARC 64
►WHO CRISIS 65
►BRICS 66
►WTO’S RULING- A SETBACK TO INDIA’S EXPORTS 68
►QUADRILATERAL SECURITY DIALOGUE (QSD) 69
►ARCTIC: A NEW THEATRE FOR GEOPOLITICAL COMPETITION
71
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS 72
►UNDERWATER DOMAIN AWARENESS FRAMEWORK 72
►VACCINE NATIONALISM 73
►OPEN SKIES TREATY 74
Section-4
Cyber
75
►BANNING AND REGULATING CRYPTOCURRENCIES 75
►CYBER FRAUDS 76
►INDIAN CYBERCRIME COORDINATION CENTRE (I4C) SCHEME
77
►NATGRID 78
►FAKE NEWS 79
►CYBERBULLYING 81
Section-5
Defence
83
►WARFARE 83
►THEATRE COMMAND 84
►INDENISATION AND MODERNISATION OF DEFENCE 85
►INDIA NUCLEAR DOCTRINE 87
►DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS 89
►SECURITY SITUATION IN J&K 90
Section-6
Miscellaneous
92
►NORTHEAST INSURGENCY- NAGA PEACE TALKS 92
►LEFT WING EXTREMISM 93
►STRATEGIC POTENTIAL OF ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS
94
►NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 95
►ANTI-TERROR LAW IN INDIA 96
►COORDINATED SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACK 97
►DARKNET 98
►JUICE JACKING 98
►ROUND TRIPPING 99
►BLUE WATER FORCE 100
