Syllabus (POLITICAL SCIENCE)

Course Type: MAJ-14

Semester: 8

Course Code: BPLSMAJ14T

Course Title: Indian Foreign Policy

(L-P-Tu): 5-0-1

Credit: 4

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective:

Learning Outcome: Course Outcome: After successful completion of this course, • Students will be able to understand and explain the concept, nature and scope of foreign policy. • Students will be able to explain the elements influencing India’s foreign policy. •

Learning Objectives:

• To help the students to understand meaning nature and scope of foreign policy of a state.
• To help the students to understand the factors influencing the India’s foreign police.
• To help the students to understand India’s relations with neighboring countries.
• To help the students to know the special relations of India with super powers

• Course Content: 6*4= 24 Classes (6 Classes per topic)

• Evolution of Indian foreign policy: Nehru and non-alignment, post-Nehru shift to state-centrism, impact of the end of the Cold War and globalization.
• Process of making foreign policy: Role of the Executive – political and bureaucratic, Role of the Parliament, Role of political parties, pressure groups, media.
• National Security: Concept and dynamics of national security, threat perceptions, power projection, Defence preparedness: purchases, indigenization and Nuclear Policy.
• Economic Power and “Soft” Power: Trade as an instrument of foreign policy – trade blocs, FTAs, role in the WTO, Quest for Energy Security and Maritime Security, “Soft Power” in foreign policy – cultural-historical linkages, diaspora.

• Suggested Readings:

• Basrur, Rajesh Minimum Deterrence and India’s Nuclear Security, (2005: Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University Press)
• Cohen, Stephen India Emerging Power, (2002: New Delhi, Oxford University Press)
• Dash, P.L. And Andrei Nazarkin, eds. India and Russia: Strategic Synergy Emerging, (2007: New Delhi, Authors Press)
• Devare, Sudhir – India and Southeast Asia; (2006: Singapore & New Delhi; ISEAS & Capital Publishing Co.)
• Dixit, J.N. External Affairs: Cross-Border Relations, (2003: New Delhi, Lotus Collections)
• Dutt, V.P. Foreign Policy of India
• Frankel, Francine and Harry Harding, eds. The India-China Relationship: Rivalry and Engagement, (2004: New Delhi, Oxford University Press)
• Harshe, Rajen and K.M. Seethi, eds. Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign Policy, (2005: New Delhi, Orient Longman)
• Mohan, C. Raja Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India’s New Foreign Policy, (2005: New Delhi, Viking – Penguin Books)
• Nayar Baldev Raj and T.V. Paul India in the World Order: Searching for MajorPower Status, (2004: New Delhi, Foundation Books/Cambridge University Press)
• Perkovich India’s Nuclear Bomb, (2002: Berkley, University of California Press)
• Thakkar, Usha and Mangesh Kulkarni, eds. India in World Affairs: Towards the 21st Century, (1999: Mumbai, Himalaya Publishing House)