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POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days — the entire PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built, one topic a day. The method is deliberately plain: read the day’s capsule, write a little the same day, and don’t break the chain. Running alongside it are PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault — 560 previous-year questions over the fifty days, roughly eleven a day — so that revision and answer-writing move together rather than apart.
Day 47 — India & the UN System
Today’s capsule reads India’s seventy-year relationship with the United Nations along two tracks that reinforce each other: a contributor in the field and a reformer in diplomacy. Part I sets out the foundations of peacekeeping and India’s record in it — from Korea, Gaza and the Congo through South Sudan and the DR Congo today — the largest cumulative contributor over seven decades, now third in active deployment behind Pakistan and Bangladesh. Part II turns to reform: the case for a permanent seat, the G4 and Uniting for Consensus, China’s opposition, the veto question, and the impediments that merit and numbers alone will not clear. Underneath both runs a single tension — the heaviest contributor still has no proportionate say in how mandates are made, and that gap is what sustains the reform campaign. Between 2016 and 2024 this unit was asked in almost every cycle — 7 × 15-markers and 2 × 10-markers — with peacekeeping and the UNSC seat carrying most of the weight.
Write before the evening:
- Discuss the importance of India’s role in UN peacekeeping operations as a ground for its claim to a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. (UPSC 2023, 15m)
- Discuss the various impediments in India’s way to a permanent seat in the Security Council. (UPSC 2018, 15m)
- “India must strive to become a semi-permanent member of the UNSC, rather than a permanent member without the right to veto.” Comment. (UPSC 2024, 10m)
If you go blank on any point — a scholar’s line, the G4 seat arithmetic, the difference between the cumulative record and current standing — it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts. Revise it, then write.
