{"id":362995,"date":"2026-05-16T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=362995"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:16:53","slug":"psir-brief-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-54\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIR Brief #54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Brief covers these important themes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shashi Tharoor<\/strong> in <em>The Hindu<\/em> talks about trade, supply chains and technology as instruments of statecraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sneha M.<\/strong> in IDSA focuses on India\u2013Bhutan rail connectivity as a tool of regional integration, economic growth and strategic depth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kartik Bommakanti\u2019s<\/strong> article in ORF analysis India\u2013Pakistan crises as a realist lesson: the US\u00a0 acts according to its interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC has previously asked question on these themes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2025 GS III:<\/strong> \u201cWhat are the challenges before the Indian economy when the world is moving away from free trade and multilateralism to protectionism and bilateralism? How can these challenges be met?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2025 PSIR Paper II:<\/strong> \u201cTrump\u2019s unilateral imposition of reciprocal tariffs on scores of countries poses impending threat to the future of the rule-based multilateral global trading system under the WTO.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2025 PSIR Paper II:<\/strong> \u201cWould you agree with the contention that India\u2019s inclination to lean on a \u2018more aggressive hyper-realist posture\u2019 has gained a new momentum in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist strike?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024 PSIR Paper II:<\/strong> \u201cBhutan has historically been an ally of India, but the China-Bhutan border related issues have become a security issue for India. Discuss.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023 PSIR Paper II:<\/strong> \u201cWhat do you mean by offensive and defensive realism?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023 PSIR Paper II:<\/strong> \u201cWhat are the reasons for lack of \u2018regionness\u2019 in South Asia?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/psirbyamitpratap\/555\">Download the PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Brief covers these important themes: Shashi Tharoor in The Hindu talks about trade, supply chains and technology as instruments of statecraft. Sneha M. in IDSA focuses on India\u2013Bhutan rail connectivity as a tool of regional integration, economic growth and strategic depth. Kartik Bommakanti\u2019s article in ORF analysis India\u2013Pakistan crises as a realist lesson: the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-54\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSIR Brief #54<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362995","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=362995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}