🏛️ CUET Political Science (Section II)

Chapters

1. The End of Bipolarity — the Soviet System, Its Collapse and After
   For more than four decades after the Second World War, world politics was organised around two poles: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…
2. New Centres of Power — the European Union, ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea
   When the bipolar world ended, power did not simply pass to the United States. Regional groupings and fast-growing economies emerged as alternative centres — able to…
3. Contemporary South Asia — Democracy, Conflict and Cooperation
   South Asia is the name for the countries of the subcontinent — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — with Afghanistan often included…
4. The United Nations and Its Organisations — Structure, Reform and the Agencies
   International organisations exist because states, however powerful, cannot solve some problems alone — war, disease, trade disputes, the spread of nuclear weapons. The…
5. Security in the Contemporary World — Traditional and Non-traditional Notions
   At its simplest, security means freedom from threats — but not every danger counts. The book reserves the word for threats that endanger a society’s core values, so…
6. Environment and Natural Resources — Global Commons, Climate and Resource Politics
   Environmental problems became part of world politics when it was clear that no country could solve them alone: polluted air and warming seas do not stop at borders. Yet…
7. Globalisation — Its Causes, Consequences, India and the Resistance
   Globalisation is, at its core, about flows — of ideas from one part of the world to another, of capital shunted between places, of commodities traded across borders, and…
8. Challenges of Nation Building — Partition, the Princely States and the Reorganisation of States
   India became independent at midnight on 14–15 August 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of a "tryst with destiny". The new nation faced three challenges at once: to shape…
9. Era of One-Party Dominance — the First Elections, the Congress System and the Opposition
   In many countries that became free from colonial rule after 1945, democracy did not survive; one party or the army took over. India’s first decade is remarkable because…
10. Politics of Planned Development — Models, the Plans and Their Consequences
    At independence there was broad agreement that India must develop — but development is a political question before it is an economic one. Which comes first, agriculture…
11. India’s External Relations — Non-alignment, Wars and the Nuclear Policy
    India became independent as the Cold War began, and its leaders had to decide how a poor, newly free country should deal with a world divided into two blocs. Their…
12. The Congress System Challenged and Restored, and the Emergency — 1964 to 1977
    Between Nehru’s death in 1964 and the elections of 1977, Indian democracy went through its most turbulent years. The Congress lost power in several states in 1967, split…
13. Regional Aspirations — Kashmir, Punjab, the North-East and the Approach of Accommodation
    India’s diversity has repeatedly produced regional aspirations — demands for autonomy, for recognition of a language or culture, for a fairer share of resources, and…
14. Recent Developments in Indian Politics — the Coalition Era, Mandal and a New Consensus
    The late 1980s opened a new phase in Indian politics. The elections of 1989 ended the long period in which the Congress was the natural party of government at the centre…

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