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Non-proliferation has now acquired the status of a vested interest with the nuclear weapon states which, in the name of political stability, are trying to perpetuate a global order which will preserve their hegemonic position. Discuss.

  • UPSC 1994
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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The statement restates the classic critique from the global South, voiced most consistently by India. In Antonio Gramsci's sense, as carried into international relations by Robert W. Cox (1981), hegemony is domination secured through institutions that present the interests of the powerful as everyone's interest; for Cox, theory is always for someone and for some…

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