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Prepared for CSS 2025, this review brings together nine chapters on events and debates from 2024 and early 2025. It covers Pakistan's economy and foreign policy alongside issues such as COP29, BRICS, the SCO, AI and democracy, and Trump's return to the White House. Use its chapter analysis, policy discussions and infographics to build topic notes and practise planning answers for Current Affairs and Pakistan Affairs. Read view-only through Google Drive, with permanent access and no expiry.
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Using the 2025 Global Affairs Annual Review
The background to today's debates
The 2025 Global Affairs Annual Review from CSS With A CSP covers 2024 and the first weeks of 2025. Several chapters tie a global issue to Pakistan and close with options for it, such as those on Trump 2.0, the TTP-Taliban nexus and the IMF.
Use it as the starting point for a topic. It records where each debate stood at the start of 2025, so you can trace how it has developed since, which helps when a question asks you to explain a trend.
What is inside
- Nine chapters: Trump 2.0 and Pakistan, COP29 and the climate crisis, geo-economics, Gaza and the Muslim world, BRICS and multipolarity, the TTP-Taliban nexus, the SCO and Russia-Pakistan relations, AI and democracy, and Pakistan and the IMF.
- Policy options for Pakistan, such as the four-part approach to the TTP-Taliban nexus and a path out of repeated IMF programmes.
- Infographics on the history of BRICS, China-Russia cooperation, Arab normalisation with Israel and the World Weather Attribution studies of 2024.
- Summaries of Pakistan's National Security Policy and of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy.
- Important articles and reviews from 2024 and early 2025, domestic and international, with links to read them in full.
- A closing list of ten topics the review marked for the 2025 paper.
Read it for causes, not headlines
Each chapter explains why an issue arose and what Pakistan could do about it. The TTP-Taliban chapter, for example, describes how the relationship between the two groups reversed after August 2021 and closes with policy options that run from border management to a regional security framework.
Set those options beside what has happened since: which were tried, which changed and which no longer fit. That comparison turns a chapter into the first half of a trend you can explain.
Build trend notes from each chapter
Our suggested routine for turning the review into notes you can still use.
- Pick one chapter and write its main argument in three lines.
- Note the dates and turning points it gives, and mark the latest one.
- From current sources, add what has happened on the issue since then.
- Write one sentence on what has changed and one on what has stayed the same.
- Plan an answer that uses the review for background and your update for the present, with Pakistan's options as the way forward.
- Use the closing list of ten topics as a checklist of that year's main debates, and mark which ones have developed since.
Who this review suits
Candidates who started preparing recently and want the background to current debates, and anyone building notes that follow an issue across several years. It is especially useful for Pakistan's foreign policy and economy, where 2024 is often the starting point of the story.
It shares several chapters with the Global Affairs Magazine, 2nd edition: the IMF, the SCO, the TTP-Taliban nexus, AI and democracy, BRICS, geo-economics and Gaza. What it adds is the 2024 picture: the chapters on Trump 2.0 and COP29, the climate studies of 2024 and the articles from that year.