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Arms trade, economic ties and congruent geo-political interests are no longer the three pillars of India – Russia relationship in the emerging strategic context. Comment.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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For half a century the bond rested on a triad: Soviet and then Russian weapons, a state-managed exchange, and a shared reading of threats from China, Pakistan and American primacy. Neoclassical realism treats such a partnership as a product of its threat environment; when the environment shifts, the pillars shift. The statement is half right:…

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  • Arms trade: weakened, not replaced
  • Economic ties: bigger but narrower
  • Congruent geopolitics: the pillar that has cracked
  • What carries the relationship now
  • Conclusion
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