QUESTION 6(b)
GS4
10 marks
Strength, peace and security are considered to be the pillars of international relations. Elucidate.
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Explain how strength, peace and security together sustain international relations, with an ethical lens.
ElucidateExplain the statement clearly and bring out its meaning with examples.
Demand-wise check
- 1Strength: military, economic and soft power provide deterrence and bargaining≈20 words
- 2Peace: diplomacy, rules-based order, dialogue, development≈20 words
- 3Security: traditional and non-traditional (climate, cyber, terror, health)≈20 words
- 4Interlink: strength without ethics leads to domination; peace without strength is fragile≈20 words
- 5India: strategic autonomy, Panchsheel, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam≈20 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Each pillarInterlinksEthical dimensionIndia's approachConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Pure strategic answer with no ethics angle
- No examples like Pokhran deterrence, Panchsheel, or Vaccine Maitri
Draw this
- Three-pillar diagram with ethics as the base
Value addition
- DoctrinePanchsheel (1954): mutual respect, non-aggression, non-interference, equality, peaceful coexistence.India–China Agreement, 1954
- LawArticle 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits threat or use of force against any state.UN Charter
- ThinkerKant's 'Perpetual Peace' (1795) linked peace to republics and international law.Immanuel Kant
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aakash Garg · AIR 5 · Page 17 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 25 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Vidushi Singh · AIR 13 · Page 9 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 5 ↗Same syllabus reference
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