{"id":363677,"date":"2026-05-26T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=363677"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:41:29","slug":"psir-brief-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-62\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIR Brief #62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Brief covers these important themes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Arvind Gupta<\/strong> in Vivekananda International Foundation focuses on why India needs resilience, Atmanirbharta and new diplomatic-military doctrines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vaibhav Jain and Raja Kartikeya <\/strong>in The Hindu talks about India-Australia trade deal not just about tariffs, but about farmers and food security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Poast<\/strong> in World Politics Review analysis the popular understanding of the Thucydides Trap and argues that war comes from revisionist ambition.<\/p>\n<p>UPSC has previously asked question on these themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\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 GS-II:<\/strong> \u201cWith the waning of globalization, post-Cold War world is becoming a site of sovereign nationalism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2025 PSIR Paper-II:<\/strong> \u201cExplain the non-traditional security threats in the context of food and environmental crises.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024 PSIR Paper-II:<\/strong> \u201cThe return of trade barriers and economic sanctions has diminished the spirit of GATT.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2024 GS-II:<\/strong> \u201cThe West is fostering India as an alternative to reduce dependence on China\u2019s supply chain and as a strategic ally to counter China\u2019s political and economic dominance.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>2023 PSIR Paper-II:<\/strong> \u201cDiscuss the various constraints on American hegemony today.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/psirbyamitpratap\/570\"><strong>Download the PDF<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Brief covers these important themes: \u00a0Arvind Gupta in Vivekananda International Foundation focuses on why India needs resilience, Atmanirbharta and new diplomatic-military doctrines. Vaibhav Jain and Raja Kartikeya in The Hindu talks about India-Australia trade deal not just about tariffs, but about farmers and food security. Paul Poast in World Politics Review analysis the popular&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-62\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSIR Brief #62<\/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-363677","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\/363677","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=363677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}