Current Affairs Past Paper 2021

Treaties, conflicts and a pandemic shape the Current Affairs past paper 2021. Q.2 asks what the US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty means for arms control arrangements between the great powers. Q.3 compares the Nagorno-Karabakh and Kashmir conflicts and sets out their similarities and differences. Q.4 blames the rise of the right for a strong challenge to liberal democracies across the world and asks how states can answer it. Q.5 returns home: most major parties promise new provinces, so should Pakistan create them or not? Q.6 puts a label on trial, as some scholars call the Afghan Peace Deal a US Withdrawal Deal, and it walks through the Afghan peace process. Q.7 examines how the militarization of artificial intelligence and computing reshapes military affairs. Q.8 closes with Covid-19 and the shape it gives to the contemporary world order.

What this paper contains

  • This file carries Part-II (the descriptive part) of the paper.
  • Part-II — attempt four questions from Q.2–Q.8; each question carries 20 marks (Part-I holds the 20 MCQs, per the printed header)
  • Q.2 — US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty: implications for arms control between the great powers
  • Q.3 — Nagorno-Karabakh and Kashmir: similarities and differences between the two conflicts
  • Q.4 — The rise of the right as a challenge to liberal democracies: causes and the state response
  • Q.5 — New provinces in Pakistan: should they be created or not?
  • Q.6 — The Afghan Peace Deal as a US Withdrawal Deal: the contours of the Afghan peace process
  • Q.7 — Militarization of artificial intelligence and computing: the change in military affairs
  • Q.8 — Covid-19 and its effects on the contemporary world order
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