UPSC

Privatization of War: The Rise of PMSCs

In April 2019, Erik Prince– the founder and long-time CEO of the controversial Blackwater USA, now called Academi, proposed to…

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Civil-Military Relations and Ethnicity: A Case Study of Pakistan

Even after debating Democracy for about two thousand years and practising it for decades and even centuries, the question of…

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Judicial Review

Judicial Review is a doctrine that believes that the Constitution of a country confers a set of powers to the…

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Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan (2003-2007)

In 2003, the US invaded Iraq purportedly because the Bush administration thought that merely killing terrorists in Afghanistan would not…

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America and Post 9/11 Afghanistan

In February 2020, the US and Taliban concluded a historic peace deal in Doha to bring an end to the…

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Insurgency in Waziristan: Causes, Casualities and Remedies

Waziristan, comprising of two erstwhile Agencies: North Waziristan and South Waziristan, is a hilly region within former FATA agencies of…

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Nasserism and its Impact on the Arab World

In his 1954 booklet, The Philosophy of the Revolution, the Egyptian leader and political ideologue Gamal  Abdel Nasser outlined his…

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The Making of the Contemporary Iranian State

Few leaders in history have singlehandedly impacted the course of history with the help of their cult of personality and…

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Katchatheevu Dispute Explained

Situated about 29 kilometres from the Indian Coast, Katchatheevu is a small uninhabited island in Sri Lanka that has long…

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42nd Amendment of Indian Constitution | Mini Constitution of India

42nd Amendment of the Indian Constitution: Few Constitutional Amendments in India have been as significant, comprehensive and consequential as the…

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