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The recent differences between India and Russia are the result of misconceptions than facts. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Robert Jervis, in Perception and Misperception in International Politics (1976), showed how states read a partner's hedging as betrayal. The India–Russia frictions of the mid-2010s fit that pattern in part: each side over-read the other's new partner. Beneath the misreadings, however, lay real structural shifts in a fluid quadrilateral of the US, China, India and…

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