International Relations

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Correct Answer : Option c

Explanation
Statement 1 is correct: India's latest foreign policy phase has been researched as a remarkably drastic leap from non-alignment to multi-alignment. India can see its abilities in a better light and has a better understanding of what the world wants from the country. This year will be known for India's proactive moves to shape important global talks and to stretch its influence out of South Asia as well. The national foreign policy is now mostly a strategic independent aspiration with an energetic engagement method and which represents the country becoming an important player in the world.

Statement 2 is correct: In the second phase from 1991 to 2008, two major events in 1991 kick started the process of change. The former Soviet Union collapsed and splintered into many independent countries, Russia being the largest among them, and successor to the USSR in the UN. The second was the foreign currency crisis faced by India, the likes of which we had never experienced before. We witnessed a changing world order with only one country remaining as the major political, economic and military power, viz., the USA. Multiple other lesser poles of global power started sprouting from this period onwards in the EU, Russia, China, dynamic Asia including Japan and India and in South America, particularly Brazil. India responded to these catatonic changes by weaning itself away from non-alignment to a multipolar alignment, adjusted its previous, often adversarial relations, with the remaining major power, the USA, incorporated globalization and paid greater attention to its immediate neighbourhood.