GLOBALISATION

PSIR Optional Globalisation Previous Year Questions are a crucial resource for UPSC aspirants preparing Political Science and International Relations as an optional subject. This section compiles PSIR Optional Globalisation PYQs asked in UPSC Mains, helping candidates understand question trends, recurring themes, and the analytical depth expected in answers on globalisation.

 

1. GLOBALISATION  

Responses from developed and developing societies

A. Conceptual & Theoretical Perspectives

1. Comment: Rethinking on sovereign state. (2000)
2. Critically examine globalisation from a Third World perspective. (2010)
3. Examine the nature and dynamics of contemporary globalization. (2011)
4. How would you describe the contemporary worlds beyond the languages of ‘North/South’ and ‘Developed/Developing’? Is the present transformation driven by domestic compulsions, or external overall crisis of the global economy? (250 words) (2012)
5. What is ‘global village’? Elaborate its main characteristics and also the factors that contributed to its growth. (2014)
6. Is globalization essentially a process of ‘universalisation’ of capitalist modernity? (2015)
7. What is globalisation? Why is there an intense debate about globalisation and its consequences? (2021)

B. Globalisation in Developed Countries

1. How is it that economic and neo-liberal globalization is being interrogated from inside even in developed countries? What are the economic consequences of such globalization? (2015)
2. Critically examine the Globalisation in the past 25 years from the perspective of the Western world. (2017)

C. Globalisation in Developing Countries (Global South)

1. Discuss the impact of globalization on the internal functioning of the state. (2016)
2. Critically examine the impact of the process of globalization from the perspective of the countries of the Global South. (2020)
3. What are the main challenges faced by the developing countries in the era of globalisation? (2022)
4. Critically examine the impact of globalization on the developing countries of the world. (2023)

D. Contemporary Shifts

1. “Deglobalisation is displacing globalisation.” Comment. (2024)