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IAS MAIN EXAM OPTIONAL PAPER POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SYLLABUS

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IAS MAIN EXAM OPTIONAL PAPER POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SYLLABUS

The political science and international relations optional papers question are mainly ask in current affairs. It consists of two papers; paper-I(polity theory and Indian politics)and paper-II(comparative politics and international relations comparative political analysis and international politics).in this paper also available in preliminary exam general studies paper.



PAPER-VI & PAPER VII

Optional Subject Papers I & I

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PAPER- I

 Political Theory and Indian Politics: 

1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches.

2. Theories of state : 
  • Liberal, 
  • Neo-liberal, 
  • Marxist, 
  • Pluralist, 
  • post-colonial and Feminist.
3. Justice : 
  • Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice its communitarian critiques. 
4. Equality : 
  • Social, political and economic; 
  • the relationship between equality and freedom; 
  • Affirmative action.
5. Rights :
  • Meaning and theories; 
  • different kinds of rights; 
  • The concept of Human Rights.
6. Democracy : 
  • Classical and contemporary theories; 
  • different models of democracy—representative, 
  • participatory and deliberative. 
7. The concept of power : 
  • hegemony, 
  • ideology and legitimacy.
8. Political Ideologies : 
  • Liberalism, Socialism, 
  • Marxism, 
  • Fascism, 
  • Gandhism and Feminism.
9. Indian Political Thought: 
  • Dharamshastra, 
  • Arthashastra 
  • Buddhist Traditions; 
  • Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, 
  • Sri Aurobindo, 
  • M.K.Gandhi, 
  • B.R.Ambedkar, 
  • M.N.Roy. 
10. Western Political Thought : 
  • Plato, 
  • Aristotle, 
  • Machiavelli, 
  • Hobbes, 
  • Locke, 
  • John S. Mill, 
  • Marx, 
  • Gramsci, 
  • Hannah Arendt. 
Indian Government and Politics 

1. Indian Nationalism : 

(a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle : 
  • Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, 
  • Non-cooperation, 
  • Civil Disobedience; 
  • Militant and Revolutionary Movements, 
  • Peasant and Workers Movements. 

(b) Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical Humanist and Dalit. 

 2. Making of the Indian Constitution : 
  • Legacies of the British rule; 
  • different social and political perspectives. 
3. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution : 
  • The Preamble, 
  • Fundamental Rights and Duties, 
  • Directive Principles; 
  • Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures; 
  • Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine4.
(a) Principal Organs of the Union Government : 
  • Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court. 
(b) Principal Organs of the State Government : 
  • Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, 
  • Legislature and High Courts. 
5. Grassroots Democracy: 
  • Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; 
  • The significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments; 
  • Grassroots movements. 
6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions: 
  • Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, 
  • Finance Commission, 
  • Union Public Service Commission, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, 
  • National Commission for Women; 
  • National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, 
  • National Backward Classes Commission. 
7. Federalism: 
  • Constitutional provisions; 
  • changing nature of center-state relations; 
  • integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; 
  • inter-state disputes. 
8. Planning and Economic development: 
  • Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives; 
  • Role of planning and public sector; 
  • Green Revolution, 
  • land reforms and agrarian relations;
  •  liberalization and economic reforms. 
9. Caste, Religion, and Ethnicity in Indian Politics. 

 10. Party System : 
  • National and regional political parties, 
  • ideological and social bases of parties;
  • Patterns of coalition politics; 
  • Pressure groups, trends in electoral behavior; 
  • changing socio-economic profile of Legislators. 
11. Social Movement: 
  • Civil liberties and human rights movements; 
  • women’s movements; 
  • environmentalist movements. 

PAPER-II

Comparative Politics and International Relations-Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics : 

1.Comparative Politics : 
  • Nature and major approaches; 
  • Political economy and political sociology perspectives; 
  • Limitations of the comparative method. 
2.State in Comparative Perspective : 
  • Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist-socialist economies
  • advanced industrial and developing societies. 
3.Politics of Representation and Participation : 
  • Political parties, 
  • pressure groups social movements in advanced industrial developing societies. 
4.Globalization: 
  • Responses from developed developing societies. 
5.Approaches to the Study of International Relations :
  • Idealist, 
  • Realist, 
  • Marxist, 
  • Functionalist 
  • Systems theory. 
6.Key Concepts in International Relations :
  • National interest, security, and power; 
  • The balance of power and deterrence; 
  • Transnational actors and collective security; 
  • World capitalist economy and globalization. 
7.Changing International Political Order : 
  • The rise of superpowers; Strategic and ideological Bipolarity, the arms race and cold war; Nuclear threat; 
  • Non-aligned Movement: Aims and achievements. 
  • The collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; Relevance of non-alignment in the contemporary world. 
8.Evolution of the International Economic System : 
  • From Brettonwoods to WTO; 
  • Socialist economies and the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance); 
  • Third World demand for a new international economic order; 
  • Globalization of the world economy. 
9.United Nations : 
  • Envisaged role and actual record; 
  • Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning; 
  • need for UN reforms. 
10.Regionalization of World Politics : 
  • EU, 
  • ASEAN, 
  • APEC,
  • AARC, 
  • NAFTA.
11.Contemporary Global Concerns : 
  • Democracy, 
  • human rights, 
  • environment, 
  • gender justice terrorism, 
  • nuclear proliferation.

India and the World 

1. Indian Foreign Policy: 
  • Determinants of foreign policy; 
  • the institutions of policy-making; 
  • Continuity and change. 
2.India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement Different phases; Current role. 

 3.India and South Asia : 
  • Regional Co-operation: SAARC-past performance and future prospects. 
  • South Asia as a Free Trade Area. 
  • India’s “Look East” policy. 
  • Impediments to regional co-operation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; Ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes. 
4.India and the Global South : 
  • Relations with Africa and Latin America; 
  • Leadership role in the demand for NIEO 
  • WTO negotiations.
5. India and the Global Centres of Power :
  • USA, 
  • EU, 
  • Japan,
  • China and Russia.
6. India and the UN System: 
  • Role in UN Peace-keeping; 
  • Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council.
7. India and the Nuclear Question : 
  • Changing perceptions and policy. 
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy : 
  • India’s position on the recent crises in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Asia, growing relations with US and Isreal;
  • The vision of a new world order.


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