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[FP & IR] Israel-Palestine Conflict

2022-09-13T07:59:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|

The Issue: – 1) Britain took control of the area known as Palestine after the ruler of that part of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, was defeated in World War One.2) The land was inhabited by a Jewish minority and Arab majority. 3) Tensions between the two peoples grew [...]

[FP & IR] Mikhail Gorbachev: Things You Must Know

2022-09-07T07:55:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|

Background : Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev passed away recently at the age of 91 after suffering from a long and protracted illness. About : Mikhail Gorbachev was a voice of sanity in a crazy cold war world, and his death marks the end of a particular era in [...]

[FP & IR]The “porcupine doctrine” of Taiwan

2022-08-08T13:09:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|

Context– Recently Taiwan has invoked the ‘porcupine strategy’ to protect itself if China attacks. […]

[FP& IR] The middle path for India in the new world disorder.

2022-05-31T16:54:02+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|

Since the end of the Second World War, the global order has seen two major transitions. After the War, a bipolar world, led by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, emerged. […]

Is this India’s moment of reckoning ?

2022-05-15T13:47:29+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|

The Russia-Ukraine conflict portends a reshaping of the world order. Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a paradigm of free societies, frictionless borders and open economies evolved to be the governing order in many nations. […]

75 years of the UN: its triumphs and disasters

2022-05-14T14:50:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|

The United Nations has shaped so much of global co-operation and [...]

The 5-4-3-2 of USA’s Geopolitiking.

2022-03-09T07:22:45+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|

News: China has accused the U.S. of “stoking geopolitical rivalry” by “forming exclusive clubs”. By “strengthening the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and “peddling the Quad, piecing together AUKUS and tightening bilateral military alliances”, the U.S. was leading what the Chinese called a “five-four-three-two” formation in the region. […]

Great Game in Central Asia.

2021-12-21T17:09:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|

Backgound:- The third India-Central Asia Dialogue convened by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Sunday is one in a series of timely connections to the region by New Delhi this year, spurred in some measure by events in Afghanistan. The dialogue has been held a month before leaders of all [...]

[IR] OPEC vs USA, India, UK, China, Japan & South Korea

2021-11-26T13:44:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: Business Line|

The United States may have just started another war that it cannot win. This time it is in the oil market, the foe is the powerful OPEC+ cartel and the prize is lower oil prices. […]

Understanding the Taliban for what it is

2021-10-06T15:31:35+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|

A realistic assessment of the circumstances in which it has to operate should have induced the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to follow a moderate course. Instead, it has sent out unmistakable signs of a preference for extremism. A peculiar state of mind is almost certainly in play, but to ascribe [...]