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Explain the meaning and application of the concept of ‘strategic engagement’.

  • UPSC 2010
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Strategic engagement is the deliberate use of sustained, structured contact rather than confrontation to shape another state's behaviour, through dialogue, trade, investment, institutional membership and military-to-military ties. It is the main non-balancing strategy open to a status-quo power facing a rising one, and a way for two states to build convergence without the obligations of…

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