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Today’s brief covers these important themes:
Heena Makhija and Sandra Thachirickal Prathap in ORF talks about relevance of BRICS amid no collective security arrangement among its members.
Jennifer B. Murtazashvili in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focuses on shift among Central Asian and Continental Asian states from choosing camps to “portfolio politics”.
Gideon Rose in Foreign Affairs analysis the Iran-Vietnam and Ukraine-Korea war through historical lens.
UPSC has previously asked question on these themes:
- 2025 GS Paper II: “The reform process in the United Nations remains unresolved, because of the delicate imbalance of East and West and entanglement of the USA vs. Russo-Chinese alliance.” Examine and critically evaluate the East-West policy confrontations in this regard.
- 2024 GS Paper II: “Critically analyse India’s evolving diplomatic, economic and strategic relations with the Central Asian Republics (CARs) highlighting their increasing significance in regional and global geopolitics.”
- 2024 PSIR Paper II: “The expansionist tendencies of the current Russian regime indicate its intentions for the realisation of a Greater Russia on the lines of the Soviet era. Comment.”
- 2023 GS Paper II: “‘Virus of Conflict is affecting the functioning of the SCO.’ In the light of the above statement point out the role of India in mitigating the problems.”
- 2023 PSIR Paper II: “Discuss the various constraints on American hegemony today. Which of these are likely to become more prominent in the future?”
