Explain balance of power as a component of traditional security policy. How could a state achieve this balance?

What is meant by global poverty? Suggest any two ways to reduce disparity between the poor and the rich at the global level.

What is meant by cooperative security? How can this be made more effective?

Describe any three broad components of India’s security strategy.

Describe any two important components of India's security strategy.

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

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?

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

Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
All proponents of human security agree that its primary goal is the protection of individuals. However, there are differences about precisely what threats individuals should be protected from. Proponents of the ‘narrow’ concept of human security focus on violent threats to individuals.

1. Which type of security is the main concern of ‘human security’?
2. What would you like to include under the ‘broad’ concept of human security? Explain.
3. Identify any four threats from which individuals should be protected.

Distinguish between the internal and external notion of traditional security.