POWER 50 · Day 30 — Globalisation: Responses

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POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days — the whole PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. The method is plain and it only works if you hold to it: read the capsule, write the same day, and don’t break the chain. Running alongside are PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault — 560 previous-year questions spread across the fifty days, roughly eleven a day — so that revision and question practice move together rather than in separate seasons.

Day 30 — Globalisation

Today’s capsule compresses the entire globalisation debate into a single sitting. It sets out what the term means and the three phases of its evolution, then the three schools that frame the field — hyperglobalists, sceptics and transformationalists — alongside Friedman’s account of a flattening world and the Industry 4.0 wave. From there it turns to politics: how globalisation transforms rather than ends the state, the left–right anti-globalisation divide, and the pandemic read through six theoretical lenses. The closing sections carry the argument that now dominates the paper — the balance sheet of gains and costs, the Global South’s grievances and a South-sensitive model, and whether deglobalisation is displacing globalisation — and finish with power quotes and a scholar index for fast recall. Between 2015 and 2025, this single unit carried five 10-markers, three 15-markers and three 20-markers — eleven questions in ten years, which is why it repays a full day rather than a hurried glance.

Write before the evening:

  1. “Deglobalisation is displacing globalisation.” Comment. (UPSC 2024, 20m)
  2. Global South-sensitive model of globalization would prevent the danger emanating from overcentralized globalization. Discuss. (UPSC 2025, 15m)
  3. Critically examine the impact of Globalisation on the developing countries of the world. (UPSC 2023, 20m)

If you go blank on a scholar, a phase or a school midway through an answer, it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts — revise the point, then write it.

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