2026-03-03T21:14:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
India’s quiet reaction to Ayatollah Khamenei’s death can be explained in simple language using ideas from realism in International Relations, which says countries mainly act to protect their national interest and power. […]
2025-08-16T11:44:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR, Geography|
From Curzon to the Northeast: How Colonial Borders Still Shape India In 1907, two years after retiring as Viceroy of India, George Nathaniel Curzon delivered the prestigious Romanes Lecture at Oxford. His chosen theme was Frontiers. Curzon argued that the idea of rigid, well-guarded national borders was essentially a European [...]
2025-08-09T01:23:02+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
“Operation Sindoor was a strike. But defeating the ‘Other Punjab’—Pakistan’s jihadi heartland—will require a war of patience, precision, and persistence.” To truly defeat terrorism, India must go beyond bombs. It must break the spine of Pakistan’s Punjab—the breeding ground of jihad.” From Pahalgam to Bahawalpur: On April 22, 2025, the [...]
2025-07-05T14:39:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR, History|
The global order today is in flux, caught between the collapse of the post–World War II liberal framework and the absence of a coherent replacement. As conflict spreads across continents and ideologies crumble, the world appears to be returning to an older, harsher logic of geopolitics—rooted not in shared values, [...]
2025-07-02T18:46:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Every country has military and Pakistan Military has a country. This statement is only vindicated by the fact that the Pakistan PrimeMinister was nowhere to be seen while Munir-Trump were having lunch. In the high-stakes theatre of South Asian geopolitics, the United States, India, and Pakistan are once again entangled [...]
2025-07-01T18:51:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Written by: Umakant Sir (Civil Servant & Mentor) History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. Great empires were built by Men and are destroyed by Men. Men of strength, vision, and resolve build empires and Men of comfort, confusion, and compromise ruin it. History is replete with [...]
2025-07-01T13:44:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Backdrop: The 2025 G7 summit in Alberta, Canada, is occurring amid global turbulence—wars in Ukraine and Gaza, rising tensions between Israel and Iran, and instability in the Indo-Pacific due to China’s maneuvers. While a US-China trade truce and India-Pakistan ceasefire exist, global geopolitics remain volatile. This aligns with Realist theories [...]
2024-11-14T19:50:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Critical minerals are considered to be the ‘new oil’, with the potential to drive the high-technology industrial revolution. However, the concentration of critical mineral supply chains along the downstream, middle, and upstream segments in specific states, such as China, has created security challenges for other countries; this is true for [...]
2024-11-09T20:41:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The October BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia marked a pivotal moment in the bloc’s evolution, showcasing key innovations, expanded energy trade, and greater global influence. The summit formally welcomed the new BRICS members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Notably, Argentina, expected to join, opted out in late [...]
2024-09-13T14:32:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The roots of the two-state solution go back to the 1930s of the British-ruled Palestine. […]
