Civil Services Prepby Garima Malik & Nitin Sangwan Account

UPSC · Prelims and Mains

International Relations

← International Relations

Major partners and the extended neighbourhood

Whole chapter · 18–28 focused hours

Major partners and the extended neighbourhood

School-level history and geography; basic constitutional institutions; first systematic study of international relations.

Includes

  • Assigned sections and concise recall notes
  • Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
  • One initial closed-book review

Separate time needed

  • Later revision and full timed papers
  • Continuing diplomatic news and changing officeholders or statistics
  • World-history chronology and general economic theory already assigned elsewhere

Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data

Whole chapter reading
  • India-US bilateral brief, January 2025 ↗

    PDF p. 2, paragraph 8: foreign/defence minister 2+2 dialogue and guidance; January 2025 account

  • India-US bilateral brief, January 2025 ↗

    PDF p. 3, paragraph 12: defence industrial roadmap and INDUS-X; cooperation mechanisms, not guaranteed transfer or deliveries; exclude paragraph 13’s Malabar classification

  • India-US bilateral brief, January 2025 ↗

    PDF p. 7, Trade Dialogue (i): Trade Policy Forum and market-access issues

  • India-US bilateral brief, January 2025 ↗

    PDF p. 7, Trade Dialogue (ii): October 2024 critical-minerals MoU across exploration, extraction, processing and recycling; do not infer secured supplies

  • India-US bilateral brief, January 2025 ↗

    PDF p. 10, paragraph 29: civil-space cooperation and Civil Space Joint Working Group; exclude later project-status inference

  • India-US bilateral brief, January 2025 ↗

    PDF p. 8, paragraph 22: Strategic Clean Energy Partnership and its five cooperation pillars; exclude paragraph 25’s incorrect CDRI expansion

  • India-Russia relations, December 2022 ↗

    PDF p. 7, paragraph 26: military-technical cooperation from procurement toward joint research, development and production; December 2022 institutional account

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 95, economic cooperation and Kudankulam paragraphs: oil/gas investment and civil-nuclear partnership as dated channels; exclude figures and completion status

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 95, fertilizer-supply discussion during the June/November engagements: long-term supply negotiations, not a guarantee of deliveries

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF pp. 94 and 96, Ukraine passages: calls for cessation/dialogue and food/fuel/fertilizer concerns. On p. 96 use only the two named UNGA abstentions; exclude the overbroad claim about all resolutions and later grain-initiative status

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 76, summit paragraph: investment intentions and yen-loan infrastructure cooperation; exclude numerical targets as achieved outcomes

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF pp. 76–77: India-Japan Industrial Competitiveness Partnership roadmap and sectoral industrial dialogues; exclude targets and visit chronologies

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 77, 2+2 meeting paragraph: stated Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision; policy position rather than demonstrated regional outcome

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 76, summit paragraph: launch of the India-Japan Clean Energy Partnership in 2022; exclude the incorrect IPEF expansion elsewhere

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 142, High-Level Exchanges: India-EU Trade and Technology Council announcement and trade/technology/security coordination; distinct from the US-EU council

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    Printed/PDF p. 143, opening paragraph: separate trade, investment and geographical-indication negotiations relaunched in 2022; not a statement of present negotiating status

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 143, France opening paragraph: civil-nuclear cooperation as a strategic-partnership pillar

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    Printed/PDF p. 143, France opening paragraph: maritime cooperation in the Indo-Pacific as a partnership pillar

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    Printed/PDF p. 99, Gulf overview: energy imports as a bilateral dependence channel; exclude proportions as current data

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    Printed/PDF p. 99, Gulf overview: investment links; exclude cumulative totals and present rankings

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    Printed/PDF p. 99, Gulf overview: resident Indian communities as relationship links; exclude population counts as current data

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    Printed/PDF p. 99, UAE paragraph: CEPA entered into force on 1 May 2022; no inference about the full schedule or current tariff treatment

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    Printed/PDF p. 101, connectivity paragraph: Chabahar’s Shahid Beheshti terminal as a regional access instrument; exclude shipment totals

  • Workshop on linking Chabahar Port with INSTC, January 2023 ↗

    Opening corridor-definition paragraph and The INSTC envisages paragraph: Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf–Iran–Caspian–Russia/Northern Europe multimodal geography and the workshop’s proposed Chabahar route; not the only route or an operational-service claim

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 109, agro-technology cooperation paragraph: farming technology and institutional exchange; dated examples, not verified yield effects

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 109, DRDO-DDR&D Letter of Intent: proposed cooperation on future defence technologies; intent is not evidence of delivered systems

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 217, Development Projects in Africa: consultative selection responding to partner-country priorities

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    Printed/PDF p. 217, Development Projects in Africa: lines of credit and named infrastructure sectors; exclude totals and project-success generalizations

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    Printed/PDF p. 218, Seychelles forensic/police training example and ITEC modalities: a dated Africa-specific capacity-building application

  • India-Central Asia Virtual Summit, 27 January 2022 ↗

    Opening two paragraphs: five participating republics and the agreed two-year summit/ministerial structure; no claim about subsequent cadence or secretariat operation

  • India-Central Asia Virtual Summit, 27 January 2022 ↗

    Third substantive paragraph: proposed energy/connectivity roundtable; distinguish the agenda from completed transport or energy projects

  • India-Central Asia Virtual Summit, 27 January 2022 ↗

    Third substantive paragraph: proposed senior-official working group on use of Chabahar Port; no implementation claim

  • India-Central Asia Virtual Summit, 27 January 2022 ↗

    Third and fourth substantive paragraphs: proposed Afghanistan working group, inclusive-government position and humanitarian commitment; no claim of political recognition

  • Annual Report 2022 ↗

    Printed/PDF p. 58, Economic Cooperation: ECTA signed 2 April and effective 29 December 2022; tariff-reduction purpose, not universal tariff elimination or current tariff advice

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    Printed/PDF p. 58, Defence Cooperation: AUSTRAHIND as a bilateral exercise; distinguish listed multilateral exercises

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    Printed/PDF p. 59, KABIL–CMFO MoU: cooperation/co-investment in critical minerals; no inference of secured supply or completed investments

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    Printed/PDF p. 62, Indonesia: Joint Task Force on connectivity between Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Aceh; a coordination mechanism, not a completed network

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    Printed/PDF p. 68, Singapore: ministerial roundtable coordinating digital, green, skills and related bilateral work; dated institutional example

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    Printed/PDF p. 68, Philippines: the January 2022 BrahMos contract; distinguish a signed contract from delivery

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    Printed/PDF p. 73, Vietnam: 2022 memorandum on mutual logistics support; no inference about deployment rights or implementation

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    Printed/PDF p. 73, Vietnam: Mekong-Ganga Cooperation quick-impact projects as local development instruments; exclude the erroneous UN body expansion and current membership claims

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    Printed/PDF pp. 166–167, India-CELAC Quartet account: a forum for sectoral cooperation; exclude meeting chronology and present leadership

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    Printed/PDF p. 167, CARICOM paragraph: requests for tailored training and expert deputation; distinguish requests from delivered programmes

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    Printed/PDF p. 169, Bolivia: geoscience working group and lithium discussions; no claim of assured extraction rights or supply

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    Printed/PDF p. 170, Brazil: ethanol, biofuel and flex-fuel knowledge exchange; exclude current commercial outcomes