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Do you think that India’s capacity building role in Afghanistan has shrunk the strategic space for Pakistan there? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2018
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  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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Kautilya's mandala theory holds that the neighbour is a natural rival and the state beyond it a natural friend. Afghanistan, Pakistan's other neighbour, therefore matters to India's dealings with Pakistan. After 2001 India chose to compete there not with troops but with capacity building. The honest answer is that this narrowed Pakistan's soft space considerably,…

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  • India's model: building a state and a society
  • Where India did shrink Pakistan's space
  • Why it did not shrink Pakistan's hard space
  • The post-2021 inversion
  • Conclusion
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