Question

elements of national interest ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Components of National Interest:

(A) Necessary or Vital Components:

(B) Non-vital or Variable Components of National Interest:

Diplomacy as a Means of National Interests:

Propaganda:

Economic Means:

Alliances and Treaties:

Coercive Means:

Answer 2

Answer:

Components of National Interest:

(A) Necessary or Vital Components:

(B) Non-vital or Variable Components of National Interest:

Diplomacy as a Means of National Interests:

Propaganda:

Economic Means:

Alliances and Treaties:

Coercive Means:

National Interest’ is a key concept in International Relations. All the nations are always engaged in the process of fulfilling or securing the goals of their national interests. The foreign policy of each nation is formulated on the basis of its national interest and it is always at work for securing its goals. It is a universally accepted right of each state to secure its national interests. A state always tries to justify its actions on the basis of its national interest. The behaviour of a state is always conditioned and governed by its national interests. Hence it is essential for us to know the meaning and content of National Interest.

National Interest is a vague and ambiguous term that carries a meaning according to the context in which it is used. Statesmen and policy-makers have always used it in ways suitable to them and to their objective of justifying the actions of their states. Hitler justified expansionist policies in the name of “German national interests.”

The US presidents have always justified their decisions to go in for the development of more and more destructive weapons in the interest of “US national interest.” To build up a strong nuclear base at Diego Garcia was justified by the USA in the name of meeting the challenge posed by erstwhile USSR as well as for protecting the US interests in the Indian Ocean. During 1979-89, (erstwhile) USSR justified its intervention in Afghanistan in the name of “Soviet national interests”.

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