Syllabus for
Master of Arts (International Studies)
Academic Year  (2021)

Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) is an inter-disciplinary programme; students integrate and apply knowledge across disciplines in order to analyze global issues and problems. It equips students with analytical and critical skills to understand contemporary international politics and prepare them for a range of professions that require knowledge of international affairs. The Programme is designed to provide graduates the expertise and skills appropriate for a range of public and private sector careers where an advanced knowledge and understanding of contemporary international societies is integral to their work.

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: Apply the knowledge in analyzing and bringing creative solutions to complex international issues through cooperation, conflict resolution, diplomacy and creative thinking.

PO3: Demonstrate critical, analytical, research, problem-solving, self-learning and communication skills required for a range of careers in public and private sectors and also for self-employment.

PO4: Demonstrate entrepreneurship, innovativeness, and continuous learning.

PO5: Exhibit dynamism, consultative decision-making, teambuilding and such other leadership qualities.

Continuous Internal Assessment   100 marks

CIA 1   Written assignments                                                 20 marks

CIA 2   Mid Semester  Examinations                                     50 marks

CIA 3    Written assignments and presentations                     20 marks

Attendance                                                                         10 marks.

End Semester Examinations                                                 100 Marks

The course aims to help students

• To understand the concepts, meaning and theories of political science. It is designed to give an in depth knowledge about the political concepts that students will be exposed to in their study of international studies.       

• To develop an inquisitive attitude towards the current political issues and be able to connect the current issues to the prominent theories of political science.

• To be open to critically analyze and respect diverse viewpoints.

• Nature, meaning and functions of political theory
• Major approaches and methods in political theory
• Sovereignty

•  liberty
• Equality
• Justice
• Rights
• Power

• Liberalism
• Conservatism
• Socialism
• Nationalism : Anarchism, Fascism
• Gandhism

• Social Contract  
• Marxist Theory
• Behavioralism & Post Behavioralism,
• Systems theory
• Communication theory
• Post-Modernism
• Feminism 

• The economy and society
• Political culture, identity and legitimacy
• Mass media and political communication
• Groups, interests and movements

CIA-2  50 Marks 

CIA -3 20 Marks 

Final Marks  100

Course Description:

 This is a principles-level course in International Economics for non-majors. International economics is the area of economics concerning transactions and interactions between agents (consumers, firms and governments) of different countries. The main goal is to introduce students to general principles of both international microeconomics and international macroeconomics.

First part of the course deals with basic microeconomics concepts and tools like demand and supply, cost and revenue, market structure and its types (1stand 2nd unit) after learning tools of economics 3rd unit focuses on international trade and gains from trade. Initially, we will see the main theories explaining international trade: who benefits from trade, why certain trade patterns appear, how international trade is related to income distribution, etc. Then in unit 4, we will focus on international trade policy: what are the instruments to encourage or discourage trade, why trade is not as prevalent as the theory would imply, and what are the main arguments for and against free trade. Unit 5 and 6 deals with balance of payment and exchange rate system, it’s important to understand these concepts in order to frame a correct policy for the economic growth and development in the era of globalization and liberalization. The last part of the course will focus on international macroeconomics, or open economy macroeconomics. It will go over exchange rate determination, the interaction between exchange rates, interest rates, inflation, and aggregate output; and discuss international monetary systems.

 Course Objectives

•        Introduce students to principles in international economics.

•        Provide a basic understanding of the workings of international trade, foreign exchange determination etc.

•        Develop economic reasoning and approach towards international relations

Introduction to economics, Production Possibility Frontier, Basics: Supply and Demand, Market Equilibrium,. Opportunity cost, Isoquants, Indifference Curve Analysis., Types of Market structure

Cost and Revenue Analysis, types of cost, types of revenue, Price and output determination under different types of market structure.

Theories of International Trade:  Absolute & Comparative Advantage Theory, Heckscher-Ohlin Theory,  Terms of Trade, Factors affecting ToT, Economic Growth and Development, Factor Endowment growth , Prebisch-Singer Thesis, Immiserising Growth-Jadgish Bhagwati

1. Tariffs and its Effects
2. Non Tariff Trade Barriers-import quotas, voluntary export agreements, subsidies, buy national policies, product and safety standards, and content requirements.
3. Other Instruments of Trade Policy

Free Trade Vs Protection

1. Balance of Trade Vs BOP
2. Accounts in BOP
3. Disequilibrium in BOP and its effects
4. Measures to Correct BOP

1. Foreign Exchange Markets and Systems
2. Theories of Exchange Rate Determination- Mint Theory,
3. Purchasing power parity Theory
4. BOP theory

National Income,

Aggregate demand and supply,

Inflation,

Unemployment,

Fiscal policy and monetary policy,

Exim Policy.

—  International Economics – Cherunilam

—  International Economics – Dominick Salvatore

—  International Economics – H.G Mannur

—  International Economics – Raj Kumar

—  International Economics- Bo Sodersten

—  International Economics- Robert J. Carbaugh

—  International Economics: Theory and Policy - Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld

—  Textbook of Economics – William Boyes & Michael Melvin

 Deviga Vengedasalam, Karunagaran Madhavan: Principles of Economics. 3 rd Edition

Krugman, Obstfeld, Melitz. International Economics: Theory and Policy, 10th Edition, 2012. Pearson.

Rajkumar: International economics, latest edition. Excel book

—  International Economics – Dominick Salvatore

—  International Economics – H.G Mannur

—  International Economics – Raj Kumar

—  International Economics- Bo Sodersten

—  International Economics- Robert J. Carbaugh

—  International Economics: Theory and Policy - Paul R. Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld

—  Textbook of Economics – William Boyes & Michael Melvin

• CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation            – 10%

• CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                                – 25%

• CIA III – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation             – 10%

• Attendance                                                                    – 05%

• End Semester Examination                                              – 50%

                                                                                                    TOTAL 100%

The study of international relations takes a wide range of theoretical approaches. Some emerge from within the discipline itself; others have been imported, in whole or in part, from disciplines such as economics or sociology. This course introduces students to some of the most important theory and practice for studying international relations. It provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the major political developments and events starting from the twentieth century. Students are expected to learn about the key milestones in world history and equip them with the tools to understand and analyze the same from different perspectives. The aim of the course is to understand International relations and its multidisciplinary nature where the student will be accommodated with contemporary trend of multidisciplinary discourse.

International Relations: Meaning, nature, scope and importance; Meaning, elements, evaluation of national power, Approaches to International Peace: Balance of Power; Collective Security; Disarmament and arms control and War

Emmanuel Kant on perpetual peace, Hugo Grotius on International Relation, Karl Smith, Thucydides, Confucius, Arthashastra Thomas Hobbes, Aquinas.

Idealism, Realism, Liberalism, Neo-Realism and Neo-Liberalism, System theory  World Systems, Functionalism and Neo-functionalism, New-world order, Dependency theory, Game theory and Marxist approaches

Historical sociology, Normative theory, Social Constructivism, Postmodernism, post- colonialism, critical theory and Neo- Marxist Approaches in IR

Non-traditional Security threats in International Relations, Green Politics in International Relations, Globalization and new orders of non-State actors, and Feminist Theories, Language and Symbols in International Relations

Smith, M. and R. Little. “Introduction.” Perspectives on World Politics. New York: Routledge, 2000. 1-17. Print.  

Baylis, John and Steve Smith. The Globalization of World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations. 4thedn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 1-6. Print. 

Cox, M. “From the Cold War to the War on Terror.” The Globalization of World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations. Eds. John Baylis and Steve Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 141-155. Print.

Bull, H. “The Balance of Power and International Order”. Perspectives on World Politics. New York: Routledge, 2000. 1-17. Print.

Dunne, T. “Liberalism.”The Globalization of World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations. Eds. John Baylis and Steve Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 185-203. Print.

Keohane, R.O. and Joseph S. Nye. “Trans-governmental Relations and the International Organisation.” Perspectives on World Politics. Eds. M. Smith and R. Little. New York: Routledge, 2000. 229-241. Print.

Moravcsik, Andrew. “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics.” International Organisation51.4 (1997): 513-553. Print.

Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Power and Interdependence. 3rd edn., Addison-Wesley, 2000. 3-52. Print.

Snyder, Jack. Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. Print.

Tickner, Ann J. “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubles Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists.” International Studies Quarterly 41.4 (1997, December): 611-632. Print.

Peterson, Spike. Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1992. Print.

Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Print.

Cohn, Carol and Cynthia Weber. “Missions, Men and Masculinities.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 1.4: 435-451. Print. 

 Moravcsik, Andrew. “Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics.” International Organisation51.4 (1997): 513-553. Print. 

Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Power and Interdependence. 3rdedn., Addison-Wesley, 2000. 3-52. Print. 

Halliday, F. Rethinking International Relations. London: Macmillan, 1994. 147-166. Print. 

Nicholson, M. International Relations: A Concise Introduction. New York: Palgrave, 2002.120-122. Print. 

Galtung, J. “A Structural Theory of Imperialism.”Perspectives on World Politics. Eds. M. Smith and R. Little. New York: Routledge, 2000. 292-304. Print.

Wallerstein, I. “The Rise and Future Demise of World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis.” Perspectives on World Politics. Eds. M. Smith and R. Little. New York: Routledge, 2000. 292-304. Print. 

CIA II – Mid Semester Examination – 25%

CIA III – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation – 10% 

 Attendance – 05%

 End Semester Examination – 50%

 TOTAL 100%

It is essential to understand how the contemporary world, its priorities and articulations are rooted in the modern period. Broadly identified as beginning from 1800’s and lasting till 1950’s, Modernism was a conceptual movement that influenced the progress of History and Culture of the entire world. It was this pre war world that engineered the historical, political, social, economic and cultural sensibilities of Contemporary period.

a)Liberalism and Nationalism in the early 19th century

b) Social Darwinism

c) Nationalism and nation States: Unification of Italy and Germany.

d) The Romantic era: Concerns and Features- Romanticism  and Musical Nationalism of Richard Wagner – Romanticism in Art and Literature of Goya and Wolfgang von Gothe -Intellectual background of Romanticism: Kant, Hegel and Marx

a)Colonialism in Africa

b) Pre colonial and colonial Africa : European presence 

c)Scramble for Africa

d) Consolidation of colonial rule: Raw materials and markets, peasant producers, economic impact, early expressions of nationalism.

 e)The People and Cultures of Africa: Religion and Society in early Africa,  African literature and literary movements, impact of African culture on the West.           

• Ruptures in Ottomanization,and the issue of eastern question
• Arab nationalism – Arabia during the world wars.
• Western interventions and regional friction in China: Anglo Chinese confrontations, revolution and the republic-   Japan: Period of assertion 1860 to 1920.           

• USA: Formation of national identity – Struggle for nationhood: westward expansion and  the civil war – Idea of USA: i)The age of Jazz ii) Literature: Emerson and David Thoreau iii) Architecture: Frank Lyod Wright
• Early colonial empires in Latin America: Portugal, Spain and France, the age of conquistadores, Portuguese empire in the Atlantic, Plantation economy, Slave trade and its impact on Europe.
• Colonial culture and liberation movements.      

2. Kevin Shillington, History of Africa, Palgrave Macmillan 2012

3. Edited, US History, Rice University, 2017

4.Meenaxi Phukan, Rise of the Modern West, Trinity Press 1998

 1.Hobsbawm, Eric. Age of Extreme: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991. London:  Abacus, 1995.

 2.      Carr, E.H. International Relations between the Two World Wars: 1919 – 1939.NewYork: Palgrave, 2004.

 3.     Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.

 4.     Carrthuthers, S.L. “International History, 1900- 1945.”The Globalisation of World Politics. An Introduction to International Relations. Eds. John Baylis and Steve Smith.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005

 5.     Calvocoressi, P. World Politics: 1945 – 2000. Essex: Pearson, 2005.

 6.     Beat Kumin (ed), The European World 1500 – 1800 An Introduction to Early Modern History,Routledge, 2009.

 7.     Benjamin Keen, A History of Latin America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009 

 8.     Christopher Lascelles. A Short History of the World. Bloomsbury, London, 2011

 9.     Arjun Dev and Indira Arjun Dev. History of the World, From the late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty First Century, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2009.

 10.  Garthine Walker(ed). Writing Early Modern History, Bloomsbury, London, 2005.

 11.  David .S. Mason, A Concise History of Modern Europe- Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, Orient Blackswan, 2012. 

12.  Jeremy Black, The World in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, 2002 

13.  John C Corbally, The Twentieth Century World- 1914 to the Present, Bloomsbury, 2019 

14.  Daniel R. Brower, The World Since 1945 – A Brief History ( Second Edition ) Pearson Education, 2005 

CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation                     10%

CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                                      25%

CIA III – Research Topic                                                      10%

Attendance                                                                              05%

End Semester Examination                                                     50%                                        

TOTAL                                                                        100%

   Scheme of Evaluation: For all Sections     

50% of the marks for Factual writin

 40% of the marks for Interpretation, Analysis                                                             

 10% of the marks for Writing style that include  grammar, vocabulary, spelling ,presentation

Indian foreign policy reflects the perceptions and priorities of our political, economic and military leaderships from time to time in relation to the neighbourhood, middle and big powers. This is evidenced from the continuity and change in Indian national security and foreign policy.

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the mechanics of foreign policy making and the issues that influence the policy in order for them to develop a perspective on the emerging trends in Indian foreign policy

Doctrinal Aspects; Determinants: domestic and international; Evolution of Indian foreign policy, pre-Independence, post-Independence, Non Aligned Movement, Cold War and Security Politics

Institutions, Structure, and Processes:Structure of Indian Government, Political System, Ministry of External Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office, Research & Analysis Wing, Role of Think Tanks, Media,  Role of the Prime ministers

Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and South-East Asia

US, Russian Federation, PRC, Japan, and European Union

Israel, East and West Asia, African Countries, Australia and South America.

Interaction with Global and Regional Institutionsand Grouping (UN, IMF & WB, WTO, ASEAN-ARF, APEC, EU, IBSA, SAARC

Genesis, Doctrines, Evolutionary Trajectory, Emerging Dimensions.

Non-Alignment,Terrorism, Energy Security, Indian Diaspora

Bajpai, Kanti, Basit, Saira, Krishnappa, V. eds., India’s grand Stategy: History, theory, cases (2014)

Bandyopadhyaya, J,  The Making of India's Foreign Policy: Determinants, Institutions, Processes, And Personalities, Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1970.

C. Raja Mohan, Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2005.

J. N. Dixit, Indian Foreign Policy and its Neighbours, New Delhi: Gyan Publishing, 2001.

Ganguly, Sumit, ed., India’s foreign Policy (2010)

Ghosh, Anjali, Chakrobroti,Tridib,  Anindyo Jyoti Majumdar and Shibashis Chatterjee, eds.,India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Pearson, 2009.

Jetly, Nancy and Rajendra Prasad, India's Foreign Policy: Challenges And Prospects, New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House, 1999.

Kapoor A and A. J. Wison, The Foreign Policy of India and her Neighbours. 1995.

Malone, David, Rajamohan C, (Eds) Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy, Oxford university Press 2015

Bajpai, Kanti, Basit, Saira, Krishnappa, V. eds., India’s grand Stategy: History, theory, cases (2014)

Nehru,J awaharlal,  India's Foreign Policy: Selected Speeches, September 1946-April 1961, New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1961.

Nancy Jetly and Rajendra Prasad, India's Foreign Policy: Challenges And Prospects, New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House, 1999.

Muni, S.D., India’s foreign Policy, The Democracy Dimension (2009)

Tharoor, Shashi Reasons of State: Political development and India’s foreign policy under Indira Gandhi (1982)

·         CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation  – 10%

·         CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                  – 25%

·         CIA III – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation  10%

·         Attendance                                                     – 05%

·         End Semester Examination                               – 50%

                                                                     TOTAL 100%

Course Description -Comment vont les affaires? the proposed method for the I MA in International Studies programme has been conceived for real beginners or people desirous of enriching their linguistic knowledge for professional use. The immediate practice of the acquired linguistic competencies kindles in the learner the curiosity and the interest to observe, question and finally the competence to use them.

Course Objectives

·         To develop linguistic competencies and sharpen written and oral communicative skills

·         To greet, introduce oneself / others

·         To present objects and ask questions

·         To engage in telephonic conversations, answering queries, making reservations etc.

-          Professional life – Organisation of work, job profiles, identity, Europe, European

countries and different nationalities, how to introduce oneself in a French firm

-          Communication -Greeting, introducing oneself/others, speaking about

one’s profession/ nationality

-          Grammar – Presentative, definite articles, gender and number, the simple

affirmative sentence, verb ‘to be’, first group verbs, pronominal verbs ‘to call oneself’

-          Professional life -Trade and products, distribution channels, types of trade,

toiletries, forms of trade, French behaviour (purchases)

-          Communication – Greeting, you – informal and formal, showing objects, asking

Questions, counting 0 to 20

-          Grammar – The presentative -This is/these are, indefinite articles, numbers 1-20,

demonstratives, gender and number, interrogative forms with intonation and

‘is it that?’, verb ‘to have’, first group verbs (cont)

-          Professional life – Professional travel, seminars and conferences, travel and

means of transport, stations, airports French stations, airports of Paris

-          Communication – Say if it’s alright or not, speaking on the phone, answering,

wrong number, if the line is not clear, situating in space (towns and countries)

-          Grammar – contracted articles, prepositions of place, tonique pronouns, interrogative,

negative, positive and negative responses, verbs ‘to go’ and ‘to do’. immediate future

-          Professional life – Telephonic information, memo, addresses and telephone

numbers, urban transport (metro, bus, RER)

-          Communication- Speaking on the phone: asking for information, spelling, making

a reservation, looking for and giving directions, thanking

-          Grammar – Numbers (20-60), localising, interrogation with where, how and how much, verbs ‘to wish’ and ‘to be able’

-          Professional life – Work timings and weekends, lunch break, invitations and

appointments, meals, French wines and cheese

-          Communication – Speaking on the phone, automatic response, likes and dislikes,

excusing oneself, expressing certainty or uncertainty

-          Grammar – Pronoun ‘on’, indefinite pronouns, interrogatives, adverbs, qualifying

adjectives, time, ‘to be hungry/thirsty’ second group verbs, simple past tense

-          Professional life – Office supplies, company orders, shopping and orders, lunch

For employees and managers, different ways of shopping

-          Communication – expressing quantity/need, refusing, expressing surprise or irritation

-          Grammar – Partitives, numbers (beyond 60), adverbs of quantity, measurements,

Negation, third group verbs

To introduce students to the Chinese language and culture and help them develop basic speaking, listening, reading and writing skillsand prepare them for HSK (level1), an international standardized exam conducted by Confucius Institute Headquarters(Hanban, a public institution) in affiliationwith the Government of China.

• Introducing oneself(Lesson 3: What is your name?)

• Giving and getting personal details (Lesson 4: Do you study French?)

-Common Chinese greetings at different moments and in different situations (Lesson 1: Hello)

 -Getting to know each other (Lesson 2: Which country are you from?)

• Teaching Basic Strokes, Basic character writing, Measuring words

• Family: Talking about one’s family (Lesson 5: How many people are there in your family?)

  -Interacting with shopkeepers and making purchases (Lesson 6: How much is half a kilogram of bananas?)

• Days and Date

-         Asking and telling directions and location(Lesson 7: Where is the Bank of China?)

-          Discussing days, dates and events(Lesson 8: What’s the date today?)

-          Lesson 9:Discovering Chinese Culture through Autumn Festival

oral

culture

General Information

·        HSK is an international standardized exam conducted all over the world by Confucius Institute Headquarter in affiliation with the Chinese Education ministry to test and rate Chinese language proficiency. It assesses non-native Chinese speakers’ abilities in using the Chinese language in their daily, academic and professional lives. HSK consists of six levels, namely the HSK (level I), HSK (level II), HSK (level III), HSK (level IV), HSK (level V), and HSK (level VI) just like DELF/DALF exams for European languages.

·         This international certificationserves as a reference for educational institutions and multinational companies requiring the knowledge of Chinese language

CIA II 50 

CIA III 20

End Sem 100

This course is an introduction to International Political Economy (IPE), an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between politics and economics .The world economic system is now highly integrated, as reflected in the increased cross- border flows of goods and capital and in the sustained activity of institutions like the World Trade Organization, European Union and SAARC. International Political Economy can act as either the make or break factor in the prosperity of nation-states. Invariably nation-states operate in a global context with an economic dimension which explains the importance of this paper. The dynamics of  interdependence which characterizes the web of economic activities like political decisions to join a monetary union or commit to economic policies that dilute political authority and power has the tendency to impact national economies with unforeseen ramifications. For instance, the flow of long-term capital into a state and access to foreign trade markets can help poorer countries to develop economically and strengthen a state's authority .To that extent, the four key areas that comprise IPE are: trade, monetary and fiscal policies, foreign direct investment and development.

Introduction to IPE, Types of Economic System, Theories of IPE: Economic Liberalism, Economic Nationalism, and Economic
Structuralism, The role of markets and states in the global economy, Developing economies and its features/characteristics, The Mahalanobis Model in India, Political and Economic indicators/variables of an economy.

The post-WWII GATT trade regime; the creation and record of the WTO; The domestic politics of International Trade, Trade theories: absolute and comparative in short, International trade relations.

Gold Standard Era, The Bretton Woods monetary regime; The collapse of Bretton Woods in the 1970s;East Asian crisis 1998, The road to the financial crisis of 2008, IMF, World Bank

What is Regional Integrations? , Different forms of regional integration;The costs and benefits of regional integration; The evolution and record of; G-7, G-77, ASEAN, SAARC, EU, NAFTA etc.

Business/trade cycle theories,Strategies of Development;Sustainable Development, Globalization: concepts of globalization, Waves of Globalization, The future of Globalization; Globalization & Poverty.Prospects of Global Governance, Multi-National Corporations

China’s development strategy since the 1970s; Chinese economic accomplishments and challenges; Implications of China’s economic development for the US

The evolution of international oil politics and oil prices since WWII;The role of OPEC; Asia’s growing thirst for energy; The debate over peak oil.

1. Mankiw,G–Principles of Economics-2ndEdition (2004)- South-Western  Publishers.

2. Beard, Jennifer. The political economy of desire: international law, development and the nation state. New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006. Print.

3. Watson, Alison M S. Introduction to International Political Economy.2004. Print.

4. Goddard C Roe. International Political Economy: State Market Relations in a changing global order. New Delhi: Viva Books, 2005, Print.

5. Goddard Roe.C. International Political Economy. New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited. 2005. Print.

6. Carbaugh, Robert J. International Economics, Thomson, South- Western Publishers

7. Sridharan, E. International Relations Theory and South Asia: Security, Political

Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011.

Print.

1. Mankiw,G–Principles of Economics-2ndEdition (2004)- South-Western  Publishers.

2. Beard, Jennifer. The political economy of desire: international law, development and the nation state. New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006. Print.

3. Watson, Alison M S. Introduction to International Political Economy.2004. Print.

4. Goddard C Roe. International Political Economy: State Market Relations in a changing global order. New Delhi: Viva Books, 2005, Print.

5. Goddard Roe.C. International Political Economy. New Delhi: Viva Books Private Limited. 2005. Print.

6. Carbaugh, Robert J. International Economics, Thomson, South- Western Publishers

7. Sridharan, E. International Relations Theory and South Asia: Security, Political Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images. Oxford: Oxford University, 2011. Print.

1.     CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation – 10%

2.     CIA II – Mid Semester Examination – 25%

3.     CIA III – Research Topic – 10%

4.     Attendance – 05%

5.     End Semester Examination – 50% 

1.     CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation – 10%

2.     CIA II – Mid Semester Examination – 25%

3.     CIA III – Research Topic – 10%

4.     Attendance – 05%

5.     End Semester Examination – 50% 

• To familiarize students with the basic concepts and approaches to the study of research methodology.
• To acquaint students with the basics of research methods, techniques, and approaches and to assist in the accomplishment of exploratory as well as result oriented research studies.
• To help students to identify the research problem and start asking the right questions with a goal of improving their ability to make a logical argument. 
• To assist students to learn various research techniques (qualitative and quantitative).
• To train students in the process of writing various academic and popular writings.
• To sensitise students of research ethics.

•  Human Inquiry and Science
• Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research
• The Ethics and Politics of Social Research
•  Characteristics of scientific method

• Explanation and Causation
• Research Question 
• Literature Review
• Hypothesis:  Importance, logic, and testing

• Qualitative and quantitative research
• Policy oriented, problem specific research in IR.
• Experimental and Formal Research Methods
• Case studies and comparative research
•  Content analysis and historical analysis
•  Direct observation, field studies and archival research
•  Questionnaire, interviewing and Survey

• Analyzing primary and secondary documents
• Data presentation and preliminary analysis, interpretation of data
• Research Design and writing the report
• Organizing and Mapping Arguments
• Presenting the Material: citation, references, notes

• Institutional and Organizational Theories
• Introduction to  study of Karl Popper, Paul Feyerband and Imre Lakotas
• The English School, Critical Theory:
• Frankfurt School and Marxist Approach
•  Normative and Postmodernist Approaches

Ahuja, Ram. Research Method, Rawat Publication, New Delhi, 2001

Art, Robert J. and Jervis, Robert International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Longman, 2010

Dhiman, AK and  SC Sinha. Research Methodology, Ess Ess Publication, New Delhi, 2002

Fowler, Flyod J. (Jr). Survey Research Methods, Sage, Beverley Hills, 1984.

Gerring, John 2004. “What is a Case Study and What is it Good for?”American Political Science Review 98, pp. 341-354

Lantis, Jeffrey S, Lynn M. Kuzma and John Boeher, eds. The New International Studies Classroom: Active Teaching, Active Learning, Lynne Rienner,Publishers, Boulder,2000.

Misra, Rabi  N and Sharma, R. P. Research Methodology and Analysis, Discovery Publishing, New Delhi, 2006

Morgan, David L. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Pragmatic Approach, Sage, New Delhi, 2014

Paul, K. Hatt and William J. Goode. Methods in Social Research, McGrawHill-Koga-Kausha, Tokyo, 1982

Phophalia, AK.  Modern Research Methodology: New Trends and Techniques, Paradise Publishing, 2010

Silverman, David (Ed). Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, Sage, New Delhi, 2004

Sprinz, Detlef F. and Wolinsky, Yael, Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations Research Methods

Ahuja, Ram. Research Method, Rawat Publication, New Delhi, 2001

Art, Robert J. and Jervis, Robert International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, Longman, 2010

Dhiman, AK and  SC Sinha. Research Methodology, Ess Ess Publication, New Delhi, 2002

Fowler, Flyod J. (Jr). Survey Research Methods, Sage, Beverley Hills, 1984.

Gerring, John 2004. “What is a Case Study and What is it Good for?”American Political Science Review 98, pp. 341-354

Lantis, Jeffrey S, Lynn M. Kuzma and John Boeher, eds. The New International Studies Classroom: Active Teaching, Active Learning, Lynne Rienner,Publishers, Boulder,2000.

Misra, Rabi  N and Sharma, R. P. Research Methodology and Analysis, Discovery Publishing, New Delhi, 2006

Morgan, David L. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Pragmatic Approach, Sage, New Delhi, 2014

Paul, K. Hatt and William J. Goode. Methods in Social Research, McGrawHill-Koga-Kausha, Tokyo, 1982

Phophalia, AK.  Modern Research Methodology: New Trends and Techniques, Paradise Publishing, 2010

Silverman, David (Ed). Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, Sage, New Delhi, 2004

Sprinz, Detlef F. and Wolinsky, Yael, Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations Research Methods

CIA II – Mid Semester Examination – 25%

CIA III – Research Topic – 10%

 Attendance – 05%

End Semester Examination – 50%

TOTAL 100%

South Asia is home to the world’s most populous nation states, characterized by religious diversity and one of the fastest-growing regional economies. The vast peninsula is situated at the crossroads of West Asia and East Asia, and dominates the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean. As international attention shifts to Asia, the states of South Asia are expected to play a more prominent role in shaping the affairs of this huge continent.

This paper provides a foundation to understand the dynamics of this crucial region and offers students the opportunity to concentrate on a part of the world whose importance in international affairs is increasingly recognized by the policy and corporate communities. It includes studying land use systems, political ecology, utilization of and access to natural resources, health issues, food security, ethnic conflicts, wars and migration studies. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of human-environment interactions at the interface between local and global processes, it gives an insight into the central dilemmas of modern politics, economic development and social change present in the region.

Geology, Landforms, Climate,Settlement, Population, Historical Geography

• South Asian civilization
• Evolution of power, authority and institutions,
• Ethnicity and Identity.
• Culture and Identity in Modern South Asia 1800-2000

Governance: State Formation, Political Elite, Insurgency and Terrorism, Civil War, Militarization: Civil-Military Relations, Introduction of Nuclear Weapons, Territorial Disputes: Role of Super Powers:  Political, Economic, Military, Social Dimensions   

a. Kashmir

b. Rann of Kutch

c. Farakka

d. Ethnic conflicts

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, creation and evolution, trade flows and treaties, barriers to intra-regional trade, challenges and opportunities

2)      South Asia:  Political and Economic Region, DrNitasha Malhotra, Kamala Nehru College, University of  Delhi

3)       South Asia in a Globalising World: A Reconstructed Regional Geography, 2002, Prentice- Hall, Bradnock, RW & Williams, G

4)      The Changing Map of Asia: A Political Geography, 2007, East, W Gordon

5)      Countries in Transition :A Brief Review of the Emerging Political Economy of Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Nepal, South Asia Occasional Paper Series 3, Asian Development Bank, Manila    

6)      Foreign Assistance and its Impact on Civil-Military Relations: A Case Study of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (Thesis) by Bobby Chand, March 2014 , Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, US

7)      Government and Politics in South Asia, Boulder, Col.: Baxter, C., Kennedy, C., Malik, Y., &Oberst, R. (2002)  Westview Press.

8) Mutual Suspicions, Murthy, Padmaja,   (2000) Knowledge World, NewDelhi

Basham, Arthur L. 1954. The Wonder That Was India; a Survey of the Culture of the Indian SubContinent Before the Coming of the Muslims. London: Sidgwick and Jackson.

Chandra, Bipan. 1989. India's Struggle for Independence. New York: Penguin Books.

 Keay, John. 2000. India: A History. London: Harper Collins.

Sarkar, Sumit. 1989. Modern India, 1885-1947. New York: Macmillan Press.

 Wolpert, Stanley A. 2004. A New History of India. New York: Oxford University Press.

·         CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation            – 10%

·         CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                                  – 25%

·         CIA III – Research Topic                                                     – 10%

·         Attendance                                                                            – 05%

·         End Semester Examination                                                – 50%

                                                                                                    TOTAL 100%

Description – Comment vont les affaires? is a method meant for adult beginners. Conceived purely for the Business world, it exposes the student who will be working in the industry to all the situations he is likely to come across. From receiving a client at the airport to checking into a hotel, serving as a guide at places of touristic interest and giving information etc. it covers all the aspects so essential to the industry requirements. 

Course Objectives

·         To enhance linguistic competencies and sharpen written and oral communicative skills

·         To ask and quote prices, describe and categorize

·         To express opinion, to negotiate

·         To indicate time

·         To draft commercial letters

·         To give orders and instructions

-          Professional life – Computer equipment, corporate purchases, clothes shopping,

car rentals, breakdowns, repairs and technical problems, department stores and

gas stations, invoices, taxes

-          Communication – Asking and quoting prices, describing and categorising,

-          giving appreciation, making objections, advising, proposing

-          Grammar – Adverbs, adjectives -place, feminine and plural, interrogation with

subject inversion, negation, colours, verbs in ‘dre’ ‘to be able+ infinitive

-          Professional life – Market, competition, at the restaurant (business meals and

outings with friends), gastronomy

-          Communication – Expressing obligation, ordering drinks, expressing opinion,

arguing, convincing, negotiating

-          Grammar – Possessives, comparison, frequency, negation with ‘never’, imperative

must + infinitive

-          Professional life – Professional travels, reserving a flight ticket, SNCF, travel

Agencies and tourist information bureaus, weekend tourism, regions of France,

Touristic and cultural attractions, air traffic 

-          Communication – Asking and seeking to know, proposing, indicating date, time

and the moment

-          Grammar – Revision of ‘It is’ and ‘there is’, time, day, evening, interrogation, construction with infinitive, ‘to come’, immediate future and recent past

-          Professional life – Professional travel, reserving a hotel room, house-rooms and

Furniture, hotels and location, habitats in different regions of France, hotels

-          Communication – Expressing finality, opposing, being indignant

-          Grammar – Comparatives, superlatives, aim, opposition and cause, verb ‘to know’

-          Professional life - Professional travel: subscription settling bills, money and checks

City taxis, outings and shows

-          Communication – Requesting to do and not to do, making assumptions, exclaiming,

drafting commercial letters

-          Grammar – Restriction, negation, imperative negative, simple future, conditional

-          Professional life – Handling mails, letters and fax, errors and excuses, post cards

Greeting cards, festivals and celebrations, holidays in France

-          Communication – Giving orders and instructions, excusing oneself, formal letters

-          Grammar – the use of ‘each’, indefinite pronouns, imperative, simple past tense

Semester 2 Chinese course will be a continuation of the previous course to help students consolidate the basics and further develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and prepare for HSK (level 2), an international standardized exam conducted by Confucius Institute Headquarters(Hanban, a public institution) in affiliation with the Government of China.

Time and daily activities

discussing activities and planning outings

(discussing different meals

discussing preferences and hobbies

communicating the need, ability, capacity, possibility and impossibility

 discussing the  intensity/ degree of something, communicating the continuity and sequence of actions

Revision exercises for all the concepts learnt

 communicating the completion or the change of a situation

introduction of the HSK2 vocabulary and syntax

practice tests to prepare for HSK2

-introduction to the examination procedure and pattern

- the HSK vocabulary and grammmar

- mock tests

- Midterm exam (50 marks)

- CIA3 (20 marks)

- Endsemester exam (100 marks)

The goal of this course is to help the students develop a theoretical understanding of international organizations (IOs) and the global problems they attempt to address. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to articulate the leading explanations within political science for why IOs exist, controversies surrounding IOs in the context of international relations theory, why they are thought to help solve global problems, and the major challenges IOs face in meeting their objectives.

Definition, Characteristics and Classification of international organizations, Theories of International Organizations

Origins of International Institutions; Treaty of Westphalia, Congress of Vienna, League of Nations, Evolution of Bretton wood Institutions.

United Nations, Principle structures of United Nations, Reform of United Nation.

EU, BRICS, SCO, GCC, SAARC ASEAN, BIMSTEC.

Politics of Foreign Aid and Development by International Financial Institutions, WTO: Issues and Reforms.

Issues of Global Governance: Peace and Security, Human Rights, Environment. Role of Non- State Actors. Challenges to global governance- Legitimacy, Accountability, Effectiveness

1. Margaret Karns and Karen Mingst, International Organizations: The Politics and Process of Global Governance. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers. 2009

2. Clive Archer, International Organizations, 3^rd edn.London.Routledge.2011

3. Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. Ithaca: Cornell UP. 2004

4. Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. Toronto: Harper Collins. 2006

5. Thomas D. Zweifel, International Organizations and Democracy: Accountability, Politics, and Power, Lynne Rienner Publishers.2006.

6. Inis Claude Jr. From Swords into Ploughshares: The Problems and Progress of International Organization, 4^th edn, New York Random House.

7. Thomas G Weiss and Sam Daws (eds) The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, New York, Oxford University Press.2007.

1. Margaret Karns and Karen Mingst, International Organizations: The Politics and Process of Global Governance. Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers. 2009

2. Clive Archer, International Organizations, 3^rd edn.London.Routledge.2011

3. Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore, Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. Ithaca: Cornell UP. 2004

4. Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations. Toronto: Harper Collins. 2006

5. Thomas D. Zweifel, International Organizations and Democracy: Accountability, Politics, and Power, Lynne Rienner Publishers.2006.

6. Inis Claude Jr. From Swords into Ploughshares: The Problems and Progress of International Organization, 4^th edn, New York Random House.

7. Thomas G Weiss and Sam Daws (eds) The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, New York, Oxford University Press.2007.

1.     CIA I – Class Test / Assignment / Presentation – 10%

2.     CIA II – Mid Semester Examination – 25%

3.     CIA III – Research Topic – 10%

4.     Attendance – 05%

5.     End Semester Examination – 50% 

Rampant exploitation of natural resources, increasing levels of pollution, intensifying human-animal conflicts, climate emergency, etc. have made ecology one of the prime subjects of discussion in recent decades. While engagements with ecology are most often taken up from a life sciences perspective, there is a felt need to approach ecology from a humanities and social sciences perspective. This course addresses that need. After laying the terms and concepts in the field as the foundation, the course progresses to engage with some of the key issues in the domain and ends with some of the media texts on ecology.

1. Glossary: Ecology, Environment, Ecosystem, Biosphere, Biome, Habitat, Niche, Vegetarianism, Anthropocentrism, Speciesism, Conservation, Biocentrism, Gia Theory, Deep Ecology, Bioregionalism, Ecopsychology, Virtual Water

2. The Ecology of Affluence and the Southern Challenge (Excerpts from Environmentalism: A Global History)

This unit is a platform that enables the entrant to pick up key vocabulary, and attain conceptual clarity regarding the discourse of ecology.

1. Four Frames of Relating to Nature: Nature for Itself, Nature despite People, Nature for People, People and Nature 

2. William Cronon's The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature

3. Changing Natures: A Democratic and Dynamic Approach to Biodiversity Conservation by Kartik Shankar, Meera Anna Oommen and Nitin Rai

4. Excerpts from Nature in the City by Harini Nagendra

This unit presents some of the key discourses on nature that circulate both in the popular and in the theoretical domains.

1. The Food Crises: Hunger via Corporate-Controlled Trade chapter from Making Peace with the Earth by Vandana Shiva

2. Pollution: Addressing Pollution in Urban Rivers: Lessons from the Vrishabhavathy River in Bengaluru by Priyanka Jamwal and Sharachchandra Lele (excerpts from Transcending Boundaries: Reflecting on Twenty years of Action and research at ATREE)

3. Excerpts from the Madhav Gadgil and Kasturirangan Reports

This unit presents some of the prime ecological concerns that haunt our lives and a few contexts that are detrimental in deciding the course of our earth’s ecological well-being.

1. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - History (Chapter II)

2. How Much should a Person Consume? (excerpts from How much should a person consume?: Thinking through the environment. )

This unit highlights how our finite world is plundered by indiscriminate looting and infinite demands.

1. A one-day trip to a forest (Excerpts from My Husband and Other Animals to be discussed on the occasion)

2. Visit to ATREE/ Bhoomi College/ Environment specific-NGO/ Ecologically-stressed area in Bangalore 

Field visits are to enable the student to gain an experiential sense of biodiversity, forest life, eco initiatives and ecological stress.

1. Conservation Conversations E3: Science and Conservation

2. Human-Animal Conflict: Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerjee 

3. The Hunt - BBC Series

4. Mongabay Explores Sumatra: Omens and optimism for orangutans - Podcast

This Unit exhibits how the media could play a proactive role in promoting ecological awareness. 

1. ALTERNATIVE FUTURES: India Unshackled. AUTHORSUPFRONT Publishing, 2018.

2. Students should start following news that is environment-centric. One should also follow websites like conservationindia.org, mongabay.org, etc.

• I CIA: Students need to identify a local ecological crisis, document it and identify means of addressing it. (10 marks)

• II CIA- Mid Sem: Centralised exam (25 marks)

• III CIA - Students need to identify a problem in the domain of ecology and make a research proposal. (10 marks)

• End Sem: Centralised exam (50 marks)

This course introduces the idea of CSR from a conceptual, historical and theoretical perspective and also addresses the ongoing debates. Detailed analysis of the policies and frameworks related to CSR implementation in India is made considering the employability of CSR professionals. While discussing the scope of CSR for sustainable development, references will be made to SDG goals.

1.      CSR: Definition, Concepts, Elements of Social Responsibility

2.      History and Evolution of CSR (International)

3.      History and Evolution of CSR (India)

4.      CSR in Global Context - International Legal Instrument and Guidelines

1.      Normative Theories: Corporate Social Performance Theory, Fiduciary Capitalism Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Citizenship Theory.

2.      Instrumental Theories and Approaches: Maximisation of shareholder value, strategies for competitive advantage and cause-related marketing.

3.      CSR - critique

1.      CSR and Issues in Economy and Social Development

2.      CSR and Environmental Issues

3.      CSR and  Labour Related Issues

4.      Ethical and Governance Issues related to CSR

5.      Corporate Citizenship and Brand building

1.      Evolution of Indian CSR Framework -Pre Companies Bill 2012

2.      Companies Act 2013

3.      CSR implementation – Agencies, Models & Best practices

4.      Case Studies (Field Exposure /workshop)

Crane, A. (ed.). (2008). The Oxford handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility.Oxford Handbooks Online.

Crowther, D., &Guler A. (2008).Corporate Social Responsibility.Ventus Publishing House.

GoI (2011).National Voluntary Guidelines. New Delhi: Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

GoI (2013).Companies Act. New Delhi: Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Maira, A.(2013). India’s 2% CSR Law.Economic and Political Weekly, 48 (38)

Mele, D., &Garriga, E. (2004).Corporate Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory. In Journal of Business Ethics. 51-71. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Bob &Hartsuikar. (2007). Theory of CSR:  Its Evolutionary Path and Road Ahead.Oxford :Blackwell.

Brammer, S., Jackson &Matton. (2012). Corporate Social Responsibility And Institutional Theory: New Perspectives On Private Governance. Socio-Economic Review.3-28.

Burchell, J. (2008). The Corporate Social Responsibility Reader. New York: Routledge.

Mullerat, R. (2010).  International Corporate Social Responsibility: the role of corporations in the economic order of the 21^st century. Austin: Aspen Publishers

Prasad, K. (2009).  Corporate Governance. New York: Prentice Hall India.

Rodrigues &Branco. (2007). Positioning Stakeholder Theory within the Debate on Corporate Social Responsibility. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and OrganisationalStudies.12(1).

Steiner, J. F & Steiner, G. A. (2009).Business, Government and Society (12^thed.). New York: McGraw Hill.

Sundar, P. (2013). Business and community: The Story of Corporate Responsibility in India. New York: Sage

CIA 2 -25 Marks Mid Sem Exam

CIA 3 -10 Marks

Attendance - 5 Marks

End Semester Exam 50 Marks

The Problems of International Relations is a combination of interdisciplinary and disciplinary courses to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the interrelationships among people as they function in different cultural, economic, and political settings. Due to the rapid pace of globalization, traditional boundaries are blurred within the international system. Transnational flows of goods, finance, ideas, communications, images, crime, and terrorism operate in an environment of connectedness and interdependence.

EH Carr

  Hans. J. Morganthau

  Kenneth Waltz

Robert Gilpin

John J. Mearsheimer

1.    Hedley Bull

2.    Barry Buzan

3.    Ken Booth

4.    David Mutiner

5.    Robert Jervis

1.    The End of History; Francis Fukuyama,

2.    Jihad vs. World; Benjamin R. Barber,

3.    The Class of Civilization; Samuel P. Huntington

1.    Environmental issues

2.    Terrorism

3.    Human Rights

4.    Maritime Security

5.    Other Non-traditional security issues

6. Gender In International Relations: Ann Tickner

International Politics of Pre-War Era.

Cold War: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons.

Post Cold War IR

John Baylis and Steve Smith and Patricia Owens,  The Globalisation of World Politics : An Introduction to International Relations, London, OUP, 2015

Buzan, Barry, ‘The Timeless Wisdom of Realism?’ in Smith, Steve, Booth, Ken and Zalewski, Marysia, eds., International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Carr, E.H., The Twenty Years Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the study of International Relations, (London: Papermac, 1995).

Mearsheimer, John, ‘Structural Realism’ in Tim Dunne et al, eds., International Relations Theories, Oxford, 2007

Mearsheimer, John, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, New York, W.W. Norton,2001

Morgenthau, Hans, ‘A Realist Theory of International Politics’ in Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace , (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 5ed 1973).

K N Waltz, ‘The Origins of War in Neo - Realist Theory’, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, , Vol. 18, No. 4, (Spring, 1988), pp. 615-628

Waltz, Kenneth N., ‘The Continuity of International Politics’, in Ken Booth and Tim Dunne.eds., Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order , (London, Palgrave, 2002)

John M.   Keyens, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics, New York, Waveland Press, 2010 (Revised Ed)

E H Carr,The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations,

Andrew Futter, Politics of Nuclear Weapons

Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Thierry Balzacq (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Security Studies, Routledge,  New York, 2010.

Columba Peoples, Nick Vaughan-Williams (Eds),  Critical Security Studies: An ntroduction, Routledge, New York, 2015.

 D avid C. Gompert, Michael Mandelbaum, Richard L. Garwin, and John H. Barton, Nuclear Weapons and World Politics: Alternatives for The Future

 Paul Bracken, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

Ward Wilson,  Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons

Joseph Nye Jr, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, Public Affairs, 2006

Robert Jervis, “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma”, World Politics, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jan., 1978), pp. 167-214

CIA II- 50 marks

CIA III- 20 marks

1.      To understand and appreciate the scope of principles and concepts of Public International Law and the issues concerning legal status and relations of States and

2.      To appreciate the contribution of International Law in conducting such relations with special regard to functional areas and dispute settlement.

·         Nature, Scope, Basis and Binding Nature of International Law

·         Origin, History and Progressive Development

·         Distinction between Public and Private International Law

·         Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law and State Practices

 Cases for reference

1.      The Paquete Habana (1899) 115 US 677

·         Sources of International Law and States Practices

·         Subjects of International Law

Cases for Study:

1. Case concerning the right of passage over Indian territory Case India v Portugal (1960)ICJ6
2. Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v United States) (Provisional Measures) ICJ Rep 1984, P 169; (Merits) ICJ Rep 1986 P 14

·         Essentials of State and Modern Developments

·         State Recognition

·         State Jurisdiction

·         State Responsibility

·         Succession to Rights and Obligations

·         Diplomatic Immunity

·         Nationality and Statelessness

·         Extradition and Asylum

·         Privileges and Immunities of Internationally Protected Persons

Cases for Study

Essentials of State

·       Island of Palmas Case (Netherlands v US) (1928) 2 RIAA 829

• Western Sahara Case Advisory Opinion ICJ Reports 1975 P 12

State Recognition

·         Jurisdiction of the Courts of Danzig (1928) PCD, Series B No 15

·         Luther Co v James Sagar and Co (1921) 3 KB 532

·         Mavromattis Palestine concessions Case (Jurisdiction) PCIJ Series A, No 2 (1924), (Merits) PCIJ Series A No 5, (1925)

State Jurisdiction

•          Amoco International Finance v Iran 15 Iran-US, CTR 189

•          Barcelona Traction Power and Light Company Case (Preliminary Objections) ICJ Rep 1964 p 44, Final Verdict (1970) ICJ 3

State Responsibility

•          Nuclear Test Cases (Interim Protection) (ICJ Rep 1973 99); (Judgment) (1974) ICJ 253

•          Rainbow Warrior Arbitration (New Zealand v France) 1990 20 R.I.A.A.A 217

Succession to Rights and Obligations

·         International Status of South West Africa (1950) ICJ 79

Diplomatic Immunity

·         The Teheran Hostages Case ICJ Reports (1980), 3

·         DRC v. Uganda ICJ Reports (2005) p168

Nationality and Statelessness in International Law

•         Nottebohm's Case ICJ Reports (1955), 4

Extradition and Asylum

•         Attorney General of Government of Israel v Alfred Eichmann Case (1962) 36 ILR 277

•         Haya De la Torra Case, (Columbia v Peru) (1951) ICJ 71

Privileges and Immunities of Internationally Protected Persons

·       U.S. Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran Case ICJ Rep 1980 pp3.

·       Territorial sea

·       Contiguous zone

·       Exclusive economic zone

·       Continental shelf

• Maritime delimitation 

Cases for Study

1.     Qatar v. Bahrain, ICJ Reports, 2001

2.     North Sea Continental Shelf cases, ICJ Reports, 1969

3.     The Fisheries jurisdiction (UK v. Iceland) case, ICJ Reports, 1974

1.  Malcolm N Shaw, "International Law" Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,- 6th Edition 2008
2. Sir Robert Jennings and Sir Arthur Watts, Oppenheim's International Law, Volumes 1 and 2, 9th Edition, Universal Law Publishing Company Private Limited, New Delhi, First Indian Reprint 2003
3. Antonio Cassese, "International Law," Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, 2001
4. J G Starke, "International Law", 11th Edition, Aditya Books/Butterworth's Publications, London, 2003
5. Martin Dixon, "International Law", Universal Law house, New Delhi, 4th Edition, 2nd Indian Reprint, 2001
6. Ian Brownlie, ""International Law", Oxford University Press, Oxford, 6th Indian Edition,2004
7.   Armstrong, Farrell & Lambert, “International Law and International Relations”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2nd Edition, 2012
8.   Andreas Lowenfeld, “International Economic Law”, Oxford  University Press, 2008, 2nd Edition\
9. World Trade Organization, “Understanding the WTO”, WTO, Geneva, 5th Edition, 2010 available at www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/understanding.e.pdf

CIA II – Mid Semester Examination – 25%

CIA III – Research Topic – 10%

 Attendance – 05%

End Semester Examination – 50%

TOTAL 100%

Central Asia, the home of some of the world's greatest art, epic literature, and empires, is the vast heartland of Asia extending from Central Europe to East Asia and from Siberia to the Himalayas. This course provides students a comprehensive understanding of the region a multidisciplinary approach.   The paper explores transitions that characterized the region and focuses on the former Soviet Central Asia or the "Orient" of the Russian Empire. It examines five distinct experiences: Muslim society and tradition, the epoch of the emirates, the annexation of the region into the Russian empire, Central Asians under Soviet rule, and the new states of Central Asia after independence in 1991. Central Asia has been a crossroads for commerce and conflict for centuries which gave rise to the expression the “Great Game”. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the current “War on Terror” lend contemporary relevance to the region. The course also studies the challenges that face the transition societies of Central Asia Moreover the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Shanghai-5) shapes the strategic environment of and adds the importance to region. Contemporary issues in the region include: ethnicity and nationalism, political development, terrorism, economic reform and post-independence foreign policy formulation. This course will help the students to comprehend the Russia’s relations across the globe with special emphasis upon the foreign policy doctrine and it’s making vis-a- vis global issues and challenges.

1. What is Central Asia and what is its ‘place’ in the world? 

2.      Geopolitical importance of Central Asia (Machinder Heart Land Theory)

1. History of Central Asia from prehistory era to Islamic empires

2. History of Islam in Central Asia Region

3. Russian presence in Central Asia, Great game

4. The Sovietization of Central Asia and the Creation of Nationalities

1.      State formation and Nation Building process in Central Asia region

2.      Shanghai Cooperation Organiation (Shanghai-5)

3.      Economic Reforms since independence

4.      New-Great Game

1.      General history of Silk Road

2.      Silk Road and India

3.      Concept of Maritime Silk Road

1.      The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the current “War on Terror” lend contemporary relevance to    the region.

2.      Ethnicity and Nationalism, the core issues in all Central Asian countries

3.      Problems of building Democracy

4.      Xinjiang Problem

5.      Foreign Policy of Central Asian Countries

6.      India and Central Asia relations

7. Climate change and its impacts on Central Asian water resources

1.      The Soviet Legacy.(Changing relationship between Russian State and society)

2.      Contemporary Russian Policy Perceptions and Postures to Global and Regional Issues: Global Terrorism, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Energy Security, NATO Expansion and EU Enlargement, etc.

3.      Russian Foreign Policy after the collapse of the Soviet Union

 Elizabeth E. Bacon, Central Asians under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966, pp.xxxv-91 (‘Preface,’ ‘The Land and the People,’ ‘Before the Conquest: The Pastoral Nomads,’ ‘Traditional Oasis Culture’)

 Olivier Roy, The New Central Asia: the Creation of Nations, New York: New York University Press, 2000, pp.25-34 (ch.2 ‘The Russian Conquest’)

 Adeeb Khalid, The politics of Muslim cultural reform: Jadidism in Central Asia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp.45-113 (‘The Making of Colonial Society ‘and ‘The Origins of Jadidism’)

 Gail Lapidus, “From Democratization to Disintegration: The Impact of Perestroika on the National Question,” in From Union to Commonwealth: nationalism and separatism in the Soviet Republics, Gail Lapidus, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp.45-70

 Gregory Gleason, Central Asian States: Discovering Independence. London: West view 1997. Chapter1.

 Martha Brill Olcott, Central Asia’s New States: Independence, Foreign Policy and Regional Security (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996): 3-20.

Mark R. Beissinger, "State Building in the Shadow of an Empire-State," in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott (eds.), The End of Empire? : The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative Perspective (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), pp. 157-185.

 Martha Brill Olcott, “Central Asia’s Catapult to Independence,” Foreign Affairs 71 (3) (1992): 108-130.

 Bruce Parrott, “Perspectives on post communist democratization,” in Conflict, Cleavage and Change: 1-39.

 Martha Brill Olcott, “Emerging Political Elites” in Ali Banuazizi and Myron Weiner (ed.s) The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and its Borderlands (London: I.B. Taurris 1994): 44-67.

 Martha Brill Olcott, “Democratization and the Growth of Political Participation," in Conflict , Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrot, eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 201-241.

 Cummings, S., “Understanding Central Asia: Politics and Contested Transformations” (Routledge, 2012)

 Cooley, A., Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (OUP, 2012)

 Dina Rome Spechler, “Russian Foreign Policy During the Putin Presidency: The Impact of Competing Approaches,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 57, No. 5

(September/October 2010), pp. 35-50.

 Edwards, M., "The New Great Game and the New Great Gamers: Disciples of Kipling and Mackinder," Central Asian Survey, 22, 1 (2003), pp.83-102.

 Levi, S.C.,"Early Modern Central Asia in World History," History Compass, 10, 11 (2012), pp.866-878

 International Crisis Group, “Central Asia: Decay and Decline," Asia Report, no. 201 (3 Feb.2011) Available on Internet

 Yemelianova, G.M. "The Rise of Islam in Muslim Eurasia: Internal Determinants and Political Consequences," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 5,2(2007), pp.73-91. Available on Internet

 Peter B. Golden, “Central Asia in World History (The New Oxford World History)”, (Oxford University Press 2011)

 Zehra Akbar, “Central Asia: The New Great Game” The Washington Review, October 2012

 Canfield, Robert and Gabriele Paleczek. 2011. Ethnicity, authority and power in Central Asia. London: Routledge.

  Morgan, Gerald. 1973. “Myth and Reality in the Great Game.” Asian Affairs 64:55-65.

 Warikoo K., “Central Asia and South Asia: Energy Cooperation and Transport Linkages” Published by Pentagon Press, 2011

 Dash, P.L, “India and Central Asia: Two Decades of Transition” October 18, 2012

 Donaldson, Nogee, and Nadkarni, The Foreign Policy of Russia, 5th ed., ch. 5.

 Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Christopher Marsh, Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors, and Sectors (Los Angeles, CA: CQ Press, 2014), ch.2.

CIA2-writing skill

CIA 3- writing skill+ analytical skill

Course Objectives:

·        To familiarize students with the basic concepts and approaches to the study of comparative politics.

·        To critically examine politics in historical and contemporary perspectives while engaging with various themes of comparative analysis in developed and developing countries.

·        To understand governmental systems of US, UK, China and Japan in comparative perspective.

Nature and scope of Comparative Politics

Why compare?

Going beyond Eurocentrism

Comparative methods: An overview of the field of Comparative Political Analysis

b. Approaches to Comparative Political Analysis

i. Formal – Institutional

ii. Political Systems and Structural Functional Approach

iii. Culture-centric

iv. Political Economy v. New Institutionalism

a. Theories of Modernisation

b. Underdevelopment

c. Dependency

d. World System

 e. Post Development 

 f. Theories of Movements

a. a. Constitutionalism

b  b. Executive

c  c. Legislature

d. d. Political parties

J. Blondel, (1996) ‘Then and Now: Comparative Politics’, in Political Studies. Vol. 47 (1), pp. 152-160.

M. Mohanty, (1975) ‘Comparative Political Theory and Third World Sensitivity’, in Teaching Politics, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 22-38

N. Chandhoke, (1996) ‘Limits of Comparative Political Analysis’, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31 (4), January 27, pp.PE 2-PE2-PE8

Todd Landman and Neil Robinson, Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, London, Sage Publications, 2009.

Blondel, J., ‘Then and Now: Comparative Politics’, in Political Studies. Vol. 47 (1), 1996, pp. 152-160.

Rod Hague, Martin Harrop, John McCormick, Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction, London: Palgrave, 2016

Mohanty, M., ‘Comparative Political Theory and Third World Sensitivity’, in Teaching Politics, Nos. 1 and 2, 1975, pp. 22-38

Chandhoke, N., ‘Limits of Comparative Political Analysis’, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31 (4), January 27, 1996, pp.PE 2-PE2-PE8

Landman, Todd and Neil Robinson, Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, London, Sage Publications, 2009.

Stone, Lawrence, ‘Theories of Revolutions,' World Politics, Vol. 18, No. 2, Jan., 1966, pp. 159-176.

Additional Readings:

Adil Khan, Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State in Pakistan. Sage, New

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist Papers (edited with Introduction and notes by Max Beloff) New York, Basil Blackwell Inc. 1987

Angelo Panebianco, Political Parties, Organisation and Power, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998.

Arend Lijphart, Thinking About Democracy, Routledge, London, 2008

Barrington Moore Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Penguin 1967

Daniel Caramani, Comparative Politics, OUP, Oxford, 2008

Gerado L. Munck and Richard Snyder, Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics, John Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Giovanni Sartori, Parties and Party System: A Framework for Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976.

Hamza Alavi and Teodor Shanin eds. Introduction to the Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’, Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1982.

Howard J. Wiarda (ed.), Comparative Politics, Vol. I-V, Routledge.

Timothy Lim, Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches and Issues (Second Edition), Lynne Reiner, Colorado, 2010.

Almond, Gabriel A. ‘Comparative Political Systems,’ Journal of Politics, Vol. 18, 1956, 391–409.

Almond, Gabriel A.; and Coleman, James, The Politics of the Developing Areas. Princeton Univ. Press. 1960. 

Almond, Gabriel A.; and Verba, Sidney, The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton Univ. Press, 1963 .

Apter, David E. Ghana in Transition. Rev. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

Apter, David E. ‘A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics,’ American Journal of Sociology, 1958, Vol. 64, 221–237.

Apter, David E. 1965 The Politics of Modernization. Univ. of Chicago Press.

Benedict, Ruth (1934) 1959 Patterns of Culture. 2d ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. → A

Berelson, Bernard; Lazarsfeld, Paul F.; and Mcphee, William N. 1954 Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign. Univ. of Chicago Press.

Bryce, James 1921 Modern Democracies. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan.

Dahl, Robert A. 1963 Modern Political Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Deutsch, Karl W. 1963 The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control. New York: Free Press.

Duverger, Maurice (1951) 1962 Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. 2d English ed., rev. New York: Wiley; London: Methuen. → First published in French.

Easton, David 1953 The Political System: An Inquiry Into the State of Political Science. New York: Knopf.

Easton, David 1965 A Systems Analysis of Political Life. New York: Wiley.

Eckstein, Harry; and Apter, David E. (editors) 1963 Comparative Politics: A Reader.New York: Free Press.

Finer, Herman (1932) 1949 The Theory and Practice of Modern Government. Rev. ed. New York: Holt.

Friedrich, Carl J. (1937) 1950 Constitutional Government and Democracy: Theory and Practice in Europe and America. Rev. ed. Boston: Ginn.

Heckscher, Gunnar 1957 The Study of Comparative Government and Politics. London: Allen & Unwin.

Herring, E. Pendleton 1940 The Politics of Democracy: American Parties in Action. New York: Norton.

Herring, E. Pendleton 1953 ‘On the Study of Government,’ American Political Science Review 47:961–974.

Kahin, George Mct.; Pauker, Guy J.; and Pye, Lucian W. 1955 ‘Comparative Politics of Non-Western Countries’. American Political Science Review 49: 1022–1041.

Key, V. O. Jr. (1942) 1964 Politics, Parties, and Pressure Groups. 5th ed. New York: Crowell.

LaPalombara, Joseph G.; and Weiner, Myron (editors) 1966 Political Parties and Political Development. Studies in Political Development, No. 6. Princeton Univ. Press.

Lasswell, Harold D. 1948 Power and Personality. New York: Norton.

Lazarsfeld, Paul F.; Berelson, Bernard; and Gaudet, Hazel (1944) 1960 The People’s Choice: How the Voter Makes up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign. 2d ed. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

Leites, Nathan 1948 Psycho-cultural Hypotheses About Political Acts. World Politics1:102–119.

Linton, Ralph 1945 The Cultural Background of Personality. New York: Appleton.

Macridis, Roy C. 1955 The Study of Comparative Government. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

Michels, Robert (1911) 1959 Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. New York: Dover.

Michigan, University Of, Survey Research Center 1960 The American Voter, by Angus Campbell et al. New York: Wiley.

Neumann, Sigmund 1957 Comparative Politics: A Halfcentury Appraisal. Journal of Politics 19:369–390.

Pye, Lucian W. 1966 Aspects of Political Development: An Analytic Study. Boston: Little.

Pye, Lucian W.; and Verba, Sidney (editors) 1965 Political Culture and Political Development. Princeton Univ. Press.

Riggs, Fred W. 1964 Administration in Developing Countries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Rustow, Dankwart A. 1957 New Horizons for Comparative Politics. World Politics9:530–549.

nd History.

Tocqueville, Alexis De (1835) 1945 Democracy in America. 2 vols. New York: Knopf.

Truman, David B. (1951) 1962 The Governmental Process: Political Interests and Public Opinion. New York: Knopf.

Weiner, Myron 1962 The Politics of Scarcity: Public Pressure and Political Response in India. Univ. of Chicago Press.

                  TOTAL                                          - 100%

A perception has increasingly become commonplace that the world politics is decisively shifting to Asia where the location of East and Southeast Asia adds strategic dynamisms in significant ways to this global shift. As we know, Southeast Asia is a home of 600 million people (almost 10 percent of the world’s population) living in its 10 constituting countries namely: Cambodia, East Timor, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. Moreover, again the location of this region between India and China is particularly important as these two countries are among the recognised ‘emerging powers’ in the Global South. Further east, Koreas and Japan have had similar economic and political importance that has impacted the international relations of the region to a great extent.  What is the evolving East and Southeast Asian modality to engage with these powers as well as the established powers of the world? How does Japan figure in the emerging political scene? These are among the important questions which this course aims to engage with during this semester. 

Course objectives:

The main objectives of the course are to:

• present an overview of the major trends and historical changes that took place in East and Southeast Asia;
• create a foundation for the students to pursue further research in various aspects of East and Southeast Asia, such as economy, politics, culture, society and foreign relations
• make aware various career opportunities available through this area studies course.

• Geopolitical relevance of the region.

• Anti-colonial movements  and Post-Colonial changes in the region

• Rise of Japan and its economy
• Economic Growth-Asian Economic Miracle
• Financial Crisis: Special reference to South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.     
• ASEAN and other regional organizations

• Korean War and Rise of South Korea, North Korea in international politics
• China’s approach to its East Asian neighbors.
• Major Power Interests in the Region-United States, Australia Japan and India                                     

• Southeast Asian economic and security matters
• Demographic challenges
• Climate Change and Southeast Asia
• Religious and ethnic tension

1.    Acharya, A. (2000), The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia, Singapore: Oxford University Press.

Beeson, Mark (ed.) (2009), Contemporary Southeast Asia, Second Edition, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

d’Cruz, J. V. (1965), “Japanese Foreign Policy and the Cold War,” The Australian Quarterly, vol. 37(3), September: 35-48. (Available at jstore)

Gopal, D. and Dalbir Alhawat (eds.) (2017), India-Australia Relations: Evolving Polycentric World Order, New Delhi: Pentagon Press.

HW (1946), “The Outlook in Japan: Social and Political Developments since the Surrender,” The World Today, 2(11) November: 512-523. (Available at jstor)

Kohno, M. and F. Rosenbluth (eds.) (2008), Japan and the World: Japan’s Contemporary Geopolitical Challenges – In Honor of the Memory and Intellectual Legacy of Asakawa Kan’ichi, CEAS Occassional Publication Series. Book 2, Connecticut: Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University. (Availabe at http://elischolar.libraryyale.edu/ceas_publication_series/2).

Legge, J. D. (1992), “The Writing of Southeast Asian History,” in Nicholas Tarling (ed.) The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, vol I, From Early Times to c. 1800, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. (Available at https://www.researchgate.net/).

Mohan, C. Raja (2013), Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Tellis, Ashley, Foundations of National Power in the Asia-Pacific, National Bureau of Asian Research

Every student of MA International Studies programme will have to write a research paper as part of the course. The research paper must be related to any aspects of international politics. The paper will have to be published in one of the journal/magazine before completing the course. Students will be allocated guides from the faculty of the department according to their area of research.

The research paper can be based on theoretical analysis or a case study. It should be innovative and relevant to the contemporary issues of international politics. The paper must be analytical and descriptive.

The research paper will have two parts; a 1000 research proposal   and a final paper of 5000 - 7000 words.

The research proposal shall have an introduction, statement of the problem, literature review, methodology and bibliography. It should also have research questions and the methods of collecting and analyzing the data. The proposal must be submitted as CIA III of the Research Methodology paper (*).

The basic structure of the final paper will be

·        Formal title, structure including a bibliography, and

·        Follow in-text citation in APA style.

·        Introduction, basic literature review and analysis of the problem and conclusion/Summary.

·        The paper must have minimum 5000-7000 words in length excluding bibliography.

·         The research paper can be based on a existing problem or arriving a new argument logically and reasonably explained. The problem must be stated clearly and concisely.

·        The structure of the paper may later be changed to suit the publication criteria of the journal it has been accepted in to.

All research paper shall lead to a publication.

If the paper is published in any of the Scopus indexed journal, then the paper will get 80 percent of the marks, 

if it is in non-Scopus but UGC accredited journal the weightage is 70per cent,

non-UGC journal 60 percent.

Papers that are not published will be evaluated by a research committee constituted by the department and evaluated on the basis of Structure, content and bibliography and the marks for such paper is 50 per cent.

The dissertation is meant to enhance the academic skill of advanced learners of the programme. Students may opt for dissertation to hone their academic research and writing skills. 

Introductory chapter will include the entire introduction to the dissertation. It will include the relevance of the study, scope of the topic, limitatons or frame work, literature survey, field studies, bibliographiy details.

Second chapter will be introductory chapter for the selected theme itself.

Third chapter will be the core part continuation, providng the details of the topic.

Fourth chapter is a continuation of the core parts of the disserattion.

Fifth chapter will be the conclusion, drawing inferences and providing justifications to it.

• Henn, M, Weinstein, M & Foard, N, A Short introduction to social research, 2nd edn, London UK: Sage.2006,
• Paul, K. Hatt and William J. Goode. Methods in Social Research, McGrawHill-Koga-Kausha, Tokyo, 1982
• Phophalia, AK.  Modern Research Methodology: New Trends and Techniques, Paradise Publishing, 2010
• Silverman, David (Ed). Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice, Sage, New Delhi, 2004
• Sprinz, Detlef F. and Wolinsky, Yael, Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations Research Methods

Morgan, David L. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Pragmatic Approach, Sage, New Delhi, 2014

Dissertation is for 60 marks and viva is for 40 marks.

At the end of the internship period students must complete a research paper of around 2500 words which is to be submitted to the Department when they rejoin for the third semester which they can, either independently or with faculty, publish anywhere they want.  They also have  to submit an internship report to the Department explaining the nature and functioning of the organization, work culture, their own work, and seminar participated, if any, and their contribution. 

The student can use the following structure while preparing the internship report:

. Executive Summary
. Introduction
. Organization Profile
. Area of the research work
. Findings from the work
. Learning outcome from the study and during the period of work at the oganization.

The report should be carried out with the following specifications:

Students should strictly adhere to the format given below while preparing the summer intern project report to have uniformity. Please make only the changes that are required and not anything else.

Weekly reports

·         Size -  one to one and half pages

·         Content- nature of the work, name of the articles/book and a brief summary, details of the conference and summary, if it happened, and the progress of the internship report

Final Reports

·         Size 3-4  pages (indicative including tables etc)

·         Font size for the body should be 12 with 1 ½ line spacing with headlines in 14

·         A4 size executive bond paper

·         Font style is Times New Roman

·         End notes and References can be added at the end of the report

·         Bibliography can be added at the end of the report if necessary

Intern at an organization and submit weekly reports and a final report with a research paper that they can write either independant reasearch or while helping the organisation.

Internship report presentation- 25 marks

Final report- 50 marks

This interdisciplinary course addresses these fundamental questions of geography, society and identity by tracing the history of ‘Europe’ as a cultural and political idea and the cultural, political and economic factors that have shaped modern Europe. Such issues have been brought into close focus by the implications of European integration, destabilizing assumptions about the territorial extent of Europe and the scales at which government, sovereignty and citizenship should operate. It examines the various processes that have made Europe such a distinctive, dynamic and highly varied region and looks at the historical roots of current tensions between and within the nation states of Europe, such as ethnic nationalism and economic crises.

·         Introduction and Idea of Europe

·         Modernity: Key features – The Non European World and Modernity – Limitations of Modernity

·         Nationalism and Imperialism

·         The Romantic era: Concerns and Features- Intellectual background – Towards the Modern World – Art: as Escape Dada - as Protest, Guernica – as Propaganda, Film

·         First  World War – Causes, Course and Impact -Enter war Era in Europe

·         Second World war and Europe

·         Jews in Central Europe: the Holocaust and its Aftermath,

·         Colonialism and Nationalism – end of European empires.

·         Cold War – West and Eastern block – Global Cold war – end of Cold War

·         Ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia – European Union.

·         Globalization and its Implications – 1980’s Neolibearalism – Globalization since 1990’s.

·         Feminist Movement – Definition, origin – Feminist movement in the west till 1960’s

·         Feminist movement in the west from late 1960’s –The Communist States – Eco feminism – Women and ecology – Globalization and Women .

2.      Becker, Uwe. The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries (Changing Welfare States). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. Print.

3.      Eichengreen, Berry. The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 2008. Print.

2.      Becker, Uwe. The Changing Political Economies of Small West European Countries (Changing Welfare States). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. Print.

3.      Eichengreen, Berry. The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 2008. Print.

·         CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                                     – 25%

·         CIA III – Research Topic                                                       – 10%

·         Attendance                                                                             – 05%

End Semester Examination                                                   – 50%                                                                                                   

This course is both theory and skills-based. Theories useful for understanding the root causes, dynamics and the resolution of the conflict (primarily inter-state conflict) will be examined. Students will also focus on developing skills (primarily negotiation, mediation and facilitation) as third-party interveners. Students will be encouraged to find their style of intervention, analyze complex conflict situations, develop intervention strategies and suggest methods and processes for implementing agreements reached.

The main objectives of the course are:

·       To explore concepts such as conflict, peace, violence, justice, reconciliation, non-violence and peace-building.

·       To provide a thorough grounding in the areas, institutions and processes of conflict resolution.

·       To equip students with the tools for resolving conflicts, from conflict prevention and peace settlements to conflict transformation and post-conflict reconstruction.

·       To inculcate better communication skills in students.

·       To both study and promote conflict resolution in interpersonal, institutional, societal, and global contexts. 

• Examines Root of War- that is the thought and action.

• Surveys early Christian and secular attitudes to war.
  
• The five stages: Latent,Perceived,Felt, Manifest and Aftermath.

• Survey of contemporary conflict management and resolution: negotiation, mediation, conciliation, ombudsman, fact-finding, facilitation techniques, arbitration, and litigation.
  
• Also basic concepts, relationships, methods, and debates in modern peace research and conflict resolution studies.