International Relations - IAS Preparation

International Relations is a crucial subject in the UPSC Mains Examination in General Studies Paper 2. Every year, almost 100 marks questions in UPSC Mains of Civil Services from this area are asked, making it extremely vital for scoring marks in this paper.

It's worth noting that International Relations is mostly a current-affairs-based topic for UPSC Mains. Also in the Preliminary Examination, the factual and conceptual part related to International Relations is asked.

As a result, in order to write comprehensive yet effective answers to the questions asked in the IAS examination, an aspirant must have a solid grasp of International Relations and related Current Affairs. We have created comprehensive notes for International Relations. These notes are useful for UPSC Civil Services Mains Examination as well as the Preliminary Examination.

India's Foreign Policy	Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy	Strategic Issues impacting India's Foreign Policy
Features of Indian Foreign Policy	The emergence of Non-Alignment Movement and its Summits	India’s relations with USA and USSR during the cold war
Panchsheel	Analysis of Nehruvian Foreign Policy	India's Nuclear policy
India and its neighborhood	India China	India-China Border Dispute
India China Water Relations	New Security Law in Hong Kong	Tibetan Policy and Support Act
India Taiwan	India Bangladesh	India Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement
Teesta River Dispute	India Nepal	Indo Nepal Border Dispute
India Pakistan	UN Military observer group in India and Pakistan (unmogip)	India Bhutan
South Asia Energy Security	India Maldives	India Afghanistan
Indo Pacific region	Supply Chain Resilience Initiative	India Australia Relations
Indian Ocean Region (IOR)	India and Central Asia	India Central Asia Dialogue
Armenia Azerbaijan Conflict	India and West Asia	Abraham Accord
India and US	India US Defence Agreement	U.S. India Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP)
India and Europe	India E.U. Relations	International organizations
UN Security Council (UNSC)	Non-Aligned Movement	Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
BRICS	ASEAN India Summit	Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
United Nations Human Rights Council	International Criminal Court	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
World Health Assembly (WHA)	Open Skies Treaty	Group of Seven (G7)
G20	Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Multilateral Organizations	International events	Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD)
Issues related to security	Space Warfare	Financial Action Task Force
Defense Acquisition Procedure 2020	National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)	Lone Wolf Attacks
Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT)	World Food Programme	IR related key Terms in News
Military exercises of India	Domestic Exercise	Vayu Shakti
Bilateral Exercise	Sampriti	Mitra Shakti
Maitree Exercise	Vajra Prahar	Yudh Abhyas
Nomadic Elephant	Garuda Shakti	Dharma Guardian
Surya Kiran exercise	Hand in Hand Exercise	SIMBEX
Shakti Exercise	CORPAT	Multilateral Exercise
India And Its Neighborhood	Indo-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region	India and Central Asia/Russia
India and West Asia	India-USA	India - Europe
India-China	India-Pakistan	India-Bangladesh
India-Nepal	India-Bhutan	India-Afghanistan
International organization/ institutions	BRICS	Military exercises of India in News
International Criminal Court	G20	BIMSTEC
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)	Issues related to security	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
India and Nuclear Disarmament	Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)	Financial Action Task Force
National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)	Bilateral Exercise	Multilateral Exercise
Defence Exercises	-	-

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