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Analyse the drivers of Indo-Russian relations in the post-Cold-War era.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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The Soviet collapse removed the ideological and strategic scaffolding of the Indo-Soviet bond. That the relationship recovered at all shows its drivers were interests rather than sentiment. Nandan Unnikrishnan (2017) identifies five pillars: political-strategic outlook, military-technical cooperation, economics, science and technology, and culture. Analytically they work at three levels, systemic, material and institutional, and their…

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  • From drift to recovery
  • Systemic drivers
  • Material drivers
  • Institutional and political drivers
  • Weak and countervailing forces
  • Conclusion
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