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‘National Interests are Dynamic’. Identify the dynamic nature of National Interests in the contemporary world politics with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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National interest is the set of goals a state pursues abroad. Realists place survival at its centre, but Hans J. Morgenthau separated a fixed core from variable interests, and Thomas W. Robinson classed many interests as variable, shaped by personalities, public opinion, sectional pressures and party politics. Dynamism lives in that variable layer, and contemporary…

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  • Ideology yields to interest
  • Leadership and domestic politics
  • Systemic shocks
  • New issue areas
  • India
  • Limits of dynamism
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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