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…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

Judicial Review

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

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

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…

10 months ago

Katchatheevu Dispute Explained

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

10 months ago

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…

2 years ago