1) What is OPCW?
2) What is Geneva II? Do you think the
Syrian crisis has degenerated into a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
3) What contentious issues have soured
India’s relations with Sri Lanka?
4) Why is North Korea threatening the US
and South Korea with nuclear strikes?
5) Examine the prospects for the
improvement of Iran’s relations with the international community, in the light
of President Hassan Rouhani’s overtures.
6) What are the main obstacles to the
creation of a Palestine state?
7) What are the issues of friction
between Saudi Arabia and the US that prompted the former to reject the UN
Security Council seat?
8) Explain the importance of recent
elections in Pakistan?
9) Why is the US unwilling to act
against a nuclear North Korea?
10) Has the Arab spring failed?
11) Why is the world worried about ‘Tapering’?
12) Why is the whole world impressed with Malala
Yousafzai?
13) Explain Iran’s stand on its nuclear program?
14) Why is the US trying to start a peace process
with Taliban?
15) What issues are highlighted in the Edward
Snowden episode?
16) What is Minamata Convention?
17) What is ‘Government Shutdown’? Is it
a fallout of rigid separation of powers prevalent in the US political system?
Substantiate your view.
18) Discuss the need for reforms to UN
Security Council.
19) Account for the rising friction
between the Afghan Government and the US on the eve of the withdrawal of NATO
forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
20) Write a note on the civil war in
Mali.
21) What are LOC and LAC? Give a
blueprint to address the roots of the problems arising out of them.
22) What is Pivot to Asia? What strategic
opportunities and challenges does it pose to India’s
foreign policy makers?
23) Write a note on the UN-sponsored
Global Arms Trade Treaty.
24) What issues are likely to dominate
the Warsaw Conference on Climate Change?
25) Give an account of the political
crisis in Maldives. Explain India’s stand on the issue.
