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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 simple and unforgiving: read the capsule, write the same day, and don’t break the chain. Running alongside it are PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault — 560 previous-year questions across the fifty days, roughly eleven a day — so your static revision and your question practice move together.
Day 38 — Contemporary Global Concerns — II
Today’s capsule takes the three concerns that recur across Paper II and compresses each to its scholars, schools and debates. Human Rights runs from the four defining marks — universal, fundamental, indivisible, absolute — and the line of descent from natural rights to the 1948 UDHR, through the three generations and an emerging fourth, the schools from communitarian to feminist, the universalism–cultural relativism fault line, the Asian Values debate, the critiques of rights, R2P and human security, data protection and the digital turn. Terrorism covers the definitional problem, the types and the schools (Copenhagen, Critical, Realist, Liberal, Constructivist), globalisation, the conventions and the CCIT, and the technology turn. Nuclear Proliferation sets Waltz against Sagan, the security and norms models, Tannenwald’s nuclear taboo, South Asian deterrence, and the NPT–CTBT–FMCT–NSG architecture with India’s positions. In the paper record for this unit, the count runs to 3 × 20-markers and 4 × 15-markers — Human Rights, Terrorism and Nuclear Proliferation are each examined.
Write before the evening:
- Critically examine the notion of “Asian Values” in the context of the on-going debates on human rights. (UPSC 2018, 20m)
- Discuss the efficacy of global conventions to combat international terrorism. (UPSC 2022, 15m)
- Discuss the Trump–Kim Singapore Summit on the prospects of denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. (UPSC 2018, 15m)
If you go blank on a scholar or a treaty, it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts — revise it, then write.
