CHRIST (Deemed to University), Bangalore

DEPARTMENT OF international-studies-and-history

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Syllabus for
Master of Philosophy (International Studies)
Academic Year  (2018)

 
1 Semester - 2018 - Batch
Course Code
Course
Type
Hours Per
Week
Credits
Marks
RIS131 RESEARCH METHODS - 4 3 100
2 Semester - 2018 - Batch
Course Code
Course
Type
Hours Per
Week
Credits
Marks
RIS231 ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AND GLOBALIZATION - 3 3 100
RIS241A INDIAN FORIEGN POLICY - 3 3 50
RIS241B CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES - 4 3 100
    

    

Introduction to Program:
The MPhil in International Studies is attributed to our multi-disciplinary faculty that draws members from the humanities, social sciences law and management. 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. It offers diverse fields of study: International Relations, International Law, International Political Economy, International Economics, World History, Strategic Studies, Areas Studies ? Europe, South East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Africa; besides research methodology. The program aims to add knowledge through research to the contemporary developments that impact the governance of societies across the globe, from terrorism to public sector reform. It covers a spectrum of areas that include the study of globalization, development, democracies, and processes of state formation, International Organizations, Theories of International Relations, International Political Economy, International Security, Global Environmental Politics, and area studies specifically South Ais, South East Asia, Central Asia, US, China, Europe and Indian Foreign Policy.
Assesment Pattern

Continues internal assessments for theory course 50%, end semester examination 50%

Examination And Assesments

Continues internal assessments for theory course 50%, end semester examination 50%

RIS131 - RESEARCH METHODS (2018 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for Semester:20
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

  • 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Outcome

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

  • familiarise with the basic concepts of research methodology. 
  • acquaint with the basics of research methods, techniques and approaches of research.
  • identify the research problem and formulate reserach questions and hypothesis. 
  • the process of writing various academic and popular writings.
  • fundamentals of research ethics.

 

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:2
Foundations of Research
 

·        Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research

·        The Ethics and Politics of Social Research

 

Unit-2
Teaching Hours:4
Problem Identification & Formulation
 

·        Explanation and Causation

·        Research Question 

·        Literature Review

 ·        Hypothesis:  Importance, logic, and testing

Unit-3
Teaching Hours:4
Research Techniques
 

·        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

Unit-4
Teaching Hours:5
Research Design and Report
 

·        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

Unit-5
Teaching Hours:5
Approaches and Theories
 

·         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

Text Books And Reference Books:

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

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

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

Evaluation Pattern

Assessment

Submission/Exam  Date

Marks (in percentage)

CIA1

 

10 %

Mid-Semester Exam

 

25 %

CIA3

 

10 %

End-Semester Exam

 

50 %

Attendance

-

05 %

RIS231 - ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AND GLOBALIZATION (2018 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The major purposes of this course are to provide the students with theopportunity to explore international relations in a variety of ways, and tofamiliarize them with the major theoretical traditions, which explain theworld politics. It would enable the students to grasp the main themes ofthe theories that have been most influential over the past two centuries.It would also explain the recent theoretical work in world politics by providing an up-to-date survey of the foundational and anti-foundationaltheoretical literature. Thus the learners will be able to understand themain themes of the various theories and be able to assess theircomparative strengths and weaknesses.

Course Outcome

Enhances Comprehensive theoretical understonding of the subject before writing the dissertation.

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:3
1. Introduction to Theories, (3 hours)
 

Paradigms, Concepts in International Relations 

Unit-2
Teaching Hours:13
2. Foundational Theories (13 hours)
 

Realism

a. Timeless wisdom of Realism

b. Essentials of Realism: State, survival and self help

c. Kinds of Realism: Structural Realism, Historical and

Practical Realism, Liberal Realism

d. Neo-Realism

• Liberalism

a. Liberal Debate

b. Varieties of Liberalism: Idealism, Liberal Institutionalism

and Liberal Internationalism

 

c. Crisis of Liberalism

Unit-3
Teaching Hours:9
New theories
 

• Marxist Theories

a. Essential Elements of Marxist Theories

b. World System Theory

c. Dependensia

d. Gramscianism

e. Critical theory

 

f. Neo-Marxism

Unit-4
Teaching Hours:5
Feminist Theory
 

 

a. Liberal feminism

b. Marxist / Socialist feminism

c. Post-modern feminism

 

d. Stand-point feminism

Unit-4
Teaching Hours:5
Anti-Foundational Theories (5hrs)
 

• Normative Theory

a. Cosmopolitanism

 

b. Communitarianism

Unit-5
Teaching Hours:15
Post-Modernism
 

 

a. Double-reading

b. Deconstructionism

• Historical Sociology (2 hours)

 

• Social Constructivism (2 hours)

Text Books And Reference Books:

1. Griffiths, Martin Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, London: Routledge 1999

2. Robert Owen Keohance, Neoliberalism and its Critics, NY: Columbia University Press, 1986

3. Scott Burchill, Theories of International Relations, NY: Palgrave, 2005

4. Dougherty Jones and and Robert Pfaltzgraff L Jr., Contending Theories of Intentional Relations, NY: Harper & Row,1981

5. Barry Buzan, Ule Waever and Jappe de Wilde, Security: A newFramework for Analysis, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc 1988

6. Emma Rothschild, What is Security? Daedalus, Vol. 124, NO. 3 (Summer 1995)

7. Art, Robert. nd Kenneth Waltz (eds), The Use of Power: Military Power and International Politics, Lanham: Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 1999/2004

8. Jervis, Robert “Theories of War in an Era of Leading Power Peace, American Political Science Review 96, 1 March 2002): 1-14

9. John Mewsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, NY: W.W. Norforvi and Company 2002 (Chs 9 and 10)

10. Baylis, J., Smith, S., & Owens, P. (Eds.). (2013). The globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations. Oxford University Press.

11.Wallerstein, I. (1976). Semi-peripheral countries and the contemporary world crisis. Theory and Society, 3(4), 461-

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Baylis, J., Smith, S., & Owens, P. (Eds.). (2013). The globalization of world politics: An introduction to international relations. Oxford University Press.

Heywood, Andrew, Global Politics

Evaluation Pattern

SCHEME OF VALUATION

·         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%

RIS241A - INDIAN FORIEGN POLICY (2018 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:50
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

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 powers and superpowers. This is evidenced from the continuity and change in Indian national security and foreign policy from the Cold War period to the post-Cold War phase that manifests in various ways from encouraging FDI to joint military exercises with Western powers.

 

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

Course Outcome

  • Students will understand the influences on the basic features of Indian foreign policy that have evolved over six decades of nationhood. This module provides students the necessary perspectives to comprehend the emerging trends in Indian foreign policy
  • Students will be able to understand of the mechanics of policy making and appreciate the complexities involved in policy making.
  • Students will know the challenges that India faces in its neighborhood the reasons behind the policy stances.
  • Students will gain an understanding of the history and current India’s policy with regards to our relations with important world players.

 

 

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:4
Foundations of 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

Unit-2
Teaching Hours:4
Making of India's Foreign Policy
 

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

Unit-3
Teaching Hours:6
The role of Prime Ministers
 

Jawaharlal Nehru, LalBahadurShastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Narasimha Rao, Inder Kumar Gujral, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh

Unit-4
Teaching Hours:8
India's Relations with its Neighbours
 

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

Unit-5
Teaching Hours:10
India's Relations with World Powers
 

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

Unit-6
Teaching Hours:8
India's Relations with Regional Powers
 

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

Unit-7
Teaching Hours:5
Continuity and Change in 21st Century
 

Non-Alignment,Terrorism, Energy Security, Indian Diaspora

Text Books And Reference Books:

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

J. Bandyopadhyaya, 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)

Anjali Ghosh, tridibChakrobroti, AnindyoJyotiMajumdar and Shibashis Chatterjee, eds.,

India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Pearson, 2009.

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

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

Penguin Books, 2005.

Jawaharlal Nehru, 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)

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

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

J. Bandyopadhyaya, 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)

Anjali Ghosh, tridibChakrobroti, AnindyoJyotiMajumdar and Shibashis Chatterjee, eds.,

India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Pearson, 2009.

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

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

Penguin Books, 2005.

Jawaharlal Nehru, 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)

Evaluation Pattern

SCHEME OF VALUATION

·         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%

RIS241B - CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES (2018 Batch)

Total Teaching Hours for Semester:20
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The course provides basic understanding of the Central Asian region, its land and people, natural resources, and its significance for India.  It also discusses identity issues based on religion, language, clan, and regional factors. The  course  will  enable  the  students  to  acquire  knowledge  of government  and  politics  in  Central  Asia  as well  as  Foreign  Relations  of  Central  Asian  countries  with  special  reference  to  India.

 

Course Outcome

Course  enables the students to know about the Central Asia.

 

Course enables the students to know about the society and religion of Central Asia.

 

Course enables the students to know about the Central Asia since 1991.

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:5
: Introduction to Central Asia
 

Land, People and History, Resources and Economy (Mineral resources, oil and gas and their distribution, economic situation, trade, investment and agriculture)

Unit-2
Teaching Hours:5
Central Asian Society
 

Ethnicity and Nationalism, the core issues in all Central Asian countries, Ethnic Groups (Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Turkmens, Russians, Uyghurs, and Mongols etc.), Religion (Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Shamanism).

Unit-3
Teaching Hours:5
Central Asia and the World
 

Terrorism, Human Rights and National Security Issues in Central Asia, Foreign Policy of Central Asian Countries, India and Central Asia relations and Regional Cooperation.(Intra – regional trade, transport linkages and regional cooperation and security)

Unit-4
Teaching Hours:5
: Central Asia and the World
 

Terrorism, Human Rights and National Security Issues in Central Asia, Foreign Policy of Central Asian Countries, India and Central Asia relations and Regional Cooperation.(Intra – regional trade, transport linkages and regional cooperation and security)

Text Books And Reference Books:

Olivier Roy, The New Central Asia: the Creation of Nations, New York: New York University Press, 2000, pp.1-24, (ch. 1 ‘History and Identity’)

 

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

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

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.

 

Rashid, Ahmed.  “The Two Revolutions – 1917 and 1991,” in the Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism (London: Zed Books 1994), pp. 25-48.

 

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.

 

Evaluation Pattern

CIA 1-10

CIA 2-25

CIA 3 -10

End Sem-50