POLITICAL SCIENCE AND

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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OPTIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

1. What is Nationalism? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Pururav Bharadwaj

Swarna
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2. Do SWOT analysis of India ? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Pururav
Bharadwaj Swarna
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3. Do you know the reason for insurgency in Burundi? - Shri PK Joshi /
2020 / Pururav Bharadwaj Swarna
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4. Tell me about the difference between Asha worker and community
health worker in Uganda. - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Pururav Bharadwaj
Swarna
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5. What is difference in approach of India and Israel in tackling the
issue of flight hijack? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Pururav Bharadwaj
Swarna
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6. Why is Middle East always in a crisis situation? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020
/ Pururav Bharadwaj Swarna
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7. How Brexit will impact india? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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8. What is the importance of Bangladesh geostrategically? - Shri PK
Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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9. What are the disputes with Bangladesh? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 /
Unknown
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10. Tell about Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau's theory ? - Shri PK Joshi
/ 2020 / Unknown
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11. What are the recent internal decisions of India taken to
international bodies ? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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12. Talk about NAM ? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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13. Before Donald trump we saw Pakistan coming close to US ? How it
affects us ? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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14. How is Pakistan able to take the issues to the UN ? - Shri PK Joshi /
2020 / Unknown
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15. What are your views on Indian PM going abroad and addressing
Indian diaspora? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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16. How to improve India's foreign policy? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 /
Unknown
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17. Why foreign policy is important why not we focus on governance
? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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18. Why did you take Political Science? - Shri Bharat Bhushan Vyas /
2020 / Soumith Raju
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19. What are the Principles of Natural Justice? - Shri Bharat Bhushan
Vyas / 2020 / Soumith Raju
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20. Tell us about Human Rights Organisations politics . - Shri Bharat

Bhushan Vyas / 2020 / Soumith Raju
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21. Tell me what Chanakya said about Politics? - Shri TCA Anant Sir /
2020 / Anshuman
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22. Can you compare Machiavelli and Chanakya? - Shri TCA Anant Sir
/ 2020 / Anshuman
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23. Tell me the evolution of political science over history and its
contributions country wise. - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 / Aniket
Sachan
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24. Which Indian political scientist you believe has given the most
original contribution to the field. Why? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
Aniket Sachan
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25. What is the difference between thoughts of Machiavelli and
Gandhiji - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 / Aniket Sachan
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26. We often talk only of economic reforms in China . Tell me about
the Social and administrative reforms in China, apart from economic
reforms? - Air Marshal Bhonsle / 2020 / Unknown
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27. What is the difference between bail and parole ? - Air Marshal
Bhonsle / 2020 / Unknown
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28. What was Machiavelli's main theory ? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
unknown

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29. Tell us about his book & his theory? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
unknown
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30. Are we following Machiavelli or Gandhi? - Shri TCA Anant Sir /
2020 / unknown
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31. Whom should we follow? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 / unknown
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32. Are means really important ? Should not we focus just on ends? -
Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 / unknown
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33. What was Glorious revolution? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
unknown
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34. Name some books of R K Narayan? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
unknown
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35. Name his book which was made into a movie? - Shri TCA Anant Sir
/ 2020 / unknown
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36. Name the Famous books of Jane Austen? - Shri TCA Anant Sir /
2020 / unknown
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37. What do you know about Social Contract Theory ? And who gave
it? - Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 / Anchika
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38. What is the end of the ideology thesis and multipolarity? - Smt
Sujata Mehta / 2020 / ABINAYA
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39. Communism or capitalism, which one is best and why? - Smt
Sujata Mehta / 2020 / ABINAYA
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40. Is NAM dead? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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41. Tell about political philosophy of Aurobindo Ghosh? - Shri PK Joshi
/ 2020 / Unknown
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42. Is Plato's republic relevant in modern times? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020
/ Unknown
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43. Is trade political or economical? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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44. On what commodities India recently increased tariff ? - Shri PK
Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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45. Is invading countries on the pretext of Human Right good? What
about India's 1971 intervention? So are you saying HR is a myth? -
Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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46. What is Paradiplomacy? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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47. Tell us about the US Taliban deal. - Smt Smita Nagraj / 2020 /
Unknown
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48. How many US forces are there in Afghanistan? - Smt Smita Nagraj
/ 2020 / Unknown
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49. What are the dual enemies they are fighting ? - Smt Smita Nagraj
/ 2020 / Unknown
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50. What would happen after the deal ? - Smt Smita Nagraj / 2020 /
Unknown
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51. China vs India in terms of giving market access - What do you
think of it ? - Smt Smita Nagraj / 2020 / Unknown
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52. Tell us about Capitalism with Chinese characteristics. - Smt Smita
Nagraj / 2020 / Unknown
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53. Bhutan has been able to take advantage of proximity with India in
the Hydro power sector but not Nepal, Why? - Smt Smita Nagraj /
2020 / Unknown
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54. Is China building any hydro project in Nepal ? - Smt Smita Nagraj /
2020 / Unknown
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55. If India refuses to buy power from the projects built by China in
Nepal whom would it sell ? - Smt Smita Nagraj / 2020 / Unknown
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56. Tell us about Doklam crisis. - Smt Smita Nagraj / 2020 / Unknown
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57. Despite numerous policies like the Act East why our relations with
south East Asian nations have not realized the potential ? - Smt
Smita Nagraj / 2020 / Unknown
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58. Tell about the three PSIR Scholars: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli ? -
Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 / Unknown
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59. Tell me the importance of Machiavelli . - Shri Bhim Sen Bassi /
2020 / Unknown
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60. Can you make comparison between Machiavelli and Kautilya ? -
Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 / Unknown
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61. Why did you opt for PSIR ? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
Mohammad Nadeem
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62. What is your favourite topic in PSIR ? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020 /
Mohammad Nadeem
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63. Why PSIR? Why not engineering? Why not other optional? - Shri
Bharat Bhushan Vyas / 2020 / Ramkumar G
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64. Why is political science called science and history is not? - Shri PK
Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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65. Tell us about ICJ? Explain binding vs enforceable rulings? - Shri PK
Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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66. You have PSIR as an optional, Tell me what will be the impact of
CAA on our Act East Policy? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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67. Why India has not been successful in establishing good relations
with our neighbouring countries? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown

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68. Tell me about India's Refugee policy. And what is the significance
of giving asylum to Dalai Lama? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / S Manjunath
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69. What is the Role of G-20, BRICS, SCO.? Why they are formed? -
Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / S Manjunath
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70. Tell me about communist manifesto and its author. - Air Marshal
Bhonsle / 2020 / Manish Kumar
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71. Tell me about Friedrick Engels? - Air Marshal Bhonsle / 2020 /
Manish Kumar
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72. Tell me name of some communist countries in the world? - Air
Marshal Bhonsle / 2020 / Manish Kumar
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73. What is Constitution? - Air Marshal Bhonsle / 2020 / Manish
Kumar
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74. Can a country not be run if Constitution is not there? - Air Marshal
Bhonsle / 2020 / Manish Kumar
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75. Tell me about Physics and PSIR - Are both sciences? - Shri Bharat
Bhushan Vyas / 2020 / Unknown
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76. Tell me about UNSC. There are some countries which are
demanding changes in UNSC. Can you name them? Why they are
demanding the changes? - Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 / Unknown
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77. You are a student of Political Science, What is politics of foreign

companies (especially USA) in the generic pharma sector ? - Shri
Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 / Unknown
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78. How India is responding to it? - Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 /
Unknown
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79. Can you give some examples? - Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 /
Unknown
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80. Why we call it Political Science? Where is science in it? - Shri PK
Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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81. How International Relations help a country in Economic
development? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 / Unknown
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82. What is BRI? Why India is opposing it? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 /
Unknown
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83. You have political science as an optional, what were the
constitutional changes made for introducing GST? - Smt Sujata
Mehta / 2020 / Anjali Birla
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84. What changes were made and with which article ? - Smt Sujata
Mehta / 2020 / Anjali Birla
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85. What is 'state' in political science? - Shri PK Joshi / 2020 /
Unknown
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86. Why political science is called science ? - Shri TCA Anant Sir / 2020
/ Unknown
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87. Who is called father of political science ? - Shri TCA Anant Sir /
2020 / Unknown
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88. Who is teacher of Aristotle ? Difference between Plato and
Aristotle. Why Plato is said to have communist tendencies ? Why
Plato is called radical ? What is Plato's communism of wives ? - Shri
TCA Anant Sir / 2020 / Unknown
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89. Who is your favorite thinker in PSIR? What views influenced you
the most? - Smt Smita Nagraj / 2020 / Naveen Yadav
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90. Tell us about the role of Bismarck and Sardar Patel. - Smt Smita
Nagraj / 2020 / Naveen Yadav
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91. Which area of PSIR fascinates you? - Shri Bhim Sen Bassi / 2020 /
Unknown
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92. Is voter behavior in India prejudiced? - Smt M Sathiyavathy / 1970
/ MR
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93. If you are the protagonist of the movie "Article 15". What would
you have done differently? - Smt M Sathiyavathy / 1970 / MR
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