Hola Amigos !
World Affairs Section of HSEE is one section where you can easily slide through with some minimal prep and smart work. It can easily give you solid 18 marks if you apply some brains, which I was able to pull off during my attempt.
World Affairs Section of HSEE is one section where you can easily slide through with some minimal prep and smart work. It can easily give you solid 18 marks if you apply some brains, which I was able to pull off during my attempt.
What is World Affairs ?
Its not the American journal on International relations !. At least from HSEE point of view (World Affairs).
But you got might have got an idea from the title itself. It's interdisciplinary in nature, blending the fields of economics, history, and political science to examine topics such as human rights, global poverty, the environment, economics, globalization, security, global ethics, and the political environment.
That's the basic jargon...
The basic syllabus of the section is :
Emergence of the US and USSR; emergence of UN system; the Cold War and nuclear race; disintegration of Soviet Union, decline of Communism and rise of nationalism; Arab-Israel conflict; India and the World; NAM and role of India; India-China and India- Pakistan relations, China and the World, conflict and wars.
Democracy and Development; Challenges to democracy; North-South divide on issues of development; UN and its various developmental and peacekeeping operations; Nuclearisation and Non-proliferation; India in SAARC and ASEAN; International terrorism, fundamentalism and the War on Terror; Indo-US relations; New centres of power in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Hunger and Poverty; Human Rights, Democracy and Development; Environmental degradation and green politics; Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Gender; Deprived Classes and minority politics; Religion in the contemporary world; Culture and Civilization; Globalization and changing economic, cultural and political landscape; Mass media and cultural change; Emergence of various popular mass movements.
Don't Freak out, basically a quick reading is enough to gain grasp on the above stuff. And keep an eye on current affairs as some stuff creep in from there. During exam make sure you try to eliminate options to reach the answers and importantly attempt all 18 ones. I will try on posting all stuff relevant to the above themes and keep you guys updated !
Peace
Your efforts to help the HSEE aspirants are highly commendable! Your blog guides an extremely significant amount of my preparation for the HSEE. I have a query: will "Contemporary World Politics" - the class 12 Political Science textbook - by the NCERT suffice for answering questions from World Affairs, besides staying updated with current affairs?
ReplyDeleteHi HSEE blog team! Love this super-helpful blog post! Just writing to share Khan Academy's World History Project course units that are relevant to this section of the HSEE:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-7-the-great-convergence-and-divergence-1880-ce-to-the-future
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-1750