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Discuss the realistic foreign policy initiatives taken by India to balance its relations between Israel & the Arab world.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 15 marks
  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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For four decades India practised equivalence in West Asia: it stayed out of the Arab–Israeli conflict, backed a negotiated two-State solution and kept Israel at arm's length. Since 1992, and decisively since 2014, it has followed a realist method in the sense of Hans J. Morgenthau, interest weighed by prudence rather than sentiment, pursuing each…

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  • Why balance is a realist necessity
  • Initiatives that built the balance
  • What made the balance possible
  • Limits and critique
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