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Shakti Dubey

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Jun 13, 25
Shakti Dubey

Shakti Dubey

Rank 1Batch of 2025

Jargons for PSIR ( Paper 2 )

  1. C. Rajamohan - Challenges of polarity dilemma - many consider world to be unipolar ( USA) some consider it bipolar ( USA & China) while other consider it multipolar ( India ,china , russia , israel , japan , etc)

2. Brahma chellany - USA wants a unipolar world order , China wants a Bipolar world order but unipolar SEA , India wants multipolar world , bipolar Asia , Unipolar S. Asia

3. S. Jaishankar - India way - Trusted Partners and Trusted Territories

4. S. Jaishankar- IR is an exercise of forging Convergence and managing divergence

5. S. Jaishankar- Benchmark of a successful diplomacy is when citizens have to pay less for the petrol - through this he gives the significance of Diplomatic Balancing

6. 3F - Food , fuel , fertiliser

7. When any country has a huge demography we can set our own narrative

8. I2 diplomacy ( Incursion and Infiltration) used by China and Pak against india

9. Separatism as propagated from far off countries like UK and Canada

10. Cheif of Defense staff has currently highlighted that there is also a threat of Grace on warfare ( non conventional warfare ) from China this includes - media , psychological, legal warfare etc

11. S. Jaishankar- current state of the world - we are moving forward wrt to technologies, research, development etc but we are moving backwards wrt to world politics i.e, towards cold war mentality of geopolitical contestation

12. S. Jaishankar calls globalisation as a double edged sword which has led to interdependence

13. Decoupling- means complete separation

14. Derisking - diversifying the risk of supply chain - thus focus is on revival of the concept of strategic autonomy- focus of India through ANB campaign to ensure self reliance

15. To conceptualise China+1 strategy , focus has to be on Trusted Partners & Trusted Territories

16. Major challenges that the world is facing :-

• Arrival of china ( Revisionist power ) focus is on expansionsim by Grace on warfare , salami slicing, Chinese marshall plan eg BRI

• The issues of " Freezing the moment" i.e., maintaining the status quo which is the current startegy of great powers

• World is moving towards - regionalism and rise of minilaterialism eg- AUKUS , QUAD , I2U2, etc

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