Explain any four components of India’s security strategy.

What is meant by traditional notion of internal and external security?

Describe any three new sources of threat to security giving examples for each.

What are the objectives of military alliances? Give an example of a functioning military alliance with its specific objectives.

What is meant by traditional notion of external security? Describe any two components of this type of security.

What is meant by Cooperative Security? How can this be made more effective?

Study the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The lack of genuine international support for democratic rule in Pakistan has further encouraged the military to continue its dominance. The United States and other Western countries have encouraged the military’s authoritarian rule in the past, for their own reasons. Given their fear of the threat of what they call ‘global Islamic terrorism’ and the apprehension that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal might fall into the hands of these terrorist groups, the military regime in Pakistan has been seen as the protector of Western interests in West Asia and South Asia.

1. What is meant by ‘global Islamic terrorism’?
2. Why did Pakistan lack genuine international support for democratic rule?
3. Why was the military regime in Pakistan considered as the protector of Western interests in West Asia and South Asia?

Describe any three new sources of threat under the non-traditional concept of security, giving examples for each.

What is meant by traditional notions of internal and external security? Explain.

Analyse any three broad components of the security strategy of India.