2024-08-18T13:26:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Authored by: Umakant Sir (Founder, Mentor and Civil Servant) Who does not like a good conspiracy? We all have our own little conspiracy theories that we believe in contradiction to facts even. And that is understandable because that is a pure “Human Psychological Error”. Psychologists call it “cognitive dissonance” (When [...]
2023-02-14T09:42:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: New Indian Express|
Introdution India taking more than seven decades to host the leader of the most populous Arab country as the chief guest of the Republic Day celebrations signals the current state of bilateral relations. However, this should not have been the case, especially given the bonhomie of the 1950s. [...]
2022-11-18T10:29:46+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|Tags: The Hindu|
Global and regional food security have been deliberated upon as one of the priority agendas of the G20 for many years now. The situation has worsened with growing conflicts, and spiralling climate crises marked by droughts, floods, cyclones, and economic downturns in the past few years. In this context, India’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
2022-05-14T14:50:04+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The United Nations has shaped so much of global [...]
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. [...]
