{"id":361892,"date":"2026-04-30T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=361892"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:34:03","slug":"psir-brief-issue-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-issue-40\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIR Brief Issue # 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s brief covers useful themes: AI in diplomacy by C. Raja Mohan, Trump\u2019s war and democratic errors by Joseph E. Stiglitz, and judicial independence during the Emergency by Amit A Pai.<\/p>\n<p>The first article by <strong>C. Raja Mohan <\/strong>focuses on why India\u2019s diplomatic system must treat AI as a serious state-capacity issue.<\/p>\n<p>The second article by <strong>Joseph E. Stiglitz<\/strong> shows how weak checks and balances can turn one leader\u2019s error into global disorder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amit A Pai\u2019s <\/strong>article reminds us that judicial independence means courage in action, not just a line in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC has previously asked questions on today\u2019s theme- <\/strong>AI &amp; privacy (GS-III 2023); democratic backsliding, Trump&#8217;s impact on EU\/WTO (PSIR 2025); judiciary&#8217;s power via PIL and Part III remedies (GS-II 2024, PSIR-I 2024); and State self-restraint as democratic success\u2014tying Emergency to civil liberties (PSIR-I 2023).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/psirbyamitpratap\/534\">Download the PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s brief covers useful themes: AI in diplomacy by C. Raja Mohan, Trump\u2019s war and democratic errors by Joseph E. Stiglitz, and judicial independence during the Emergency by Amit A Pai. The first article by C. Raja Mohan focuses on why India\u2019s diplomatic system must treat AI as a serious state-capacity issue. The second article&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-issue-40\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSIR Brief Issue # 40<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psir-optional","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}