PO418N: International Politics

This course highlights the transformation of nationstate system under the impact of globalisation,
international regulatory mechanisms and social movements. The inequality and conflicts inbuilt into this
system and the responses to the same are important components of this study. Power is still a major
arbitrator of relations between states in the World. Therefore, while not denying the significance of the
realistic approach to the study of International politics this course suggests the necessity of bringing in
the normative and critical approaches to the fore both to understand the world closing upon itself and
at the same time breaking loose to give place to a myriad of distinct identities. Some of the concerns
central to this course are explored by situating South Asia in the ongoing global politics today.

1. Approaches and Methods

i. Realism and Neorealism

ii.Liberalism and Neoliberal Institutionalism

iii. Critical Approaches :Constructivist, Feminist, NeoMarxist

iv. Normative Approaches: Global Justice, Cosmopolitanism

Required Readings

Enloe Cynthia, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, University
of California Press, Berkely, 2004.

John Rawls, The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited , Harvard University Press,
Cambridge: Mass., 1999

Maria L. and Jan Stefan Fritz eds., Value Pluralism, Normative Theory and International Relations,
Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, UK, 1999.

Waltz Kenneth, Theory of International Politics, Random House, New York, 1979.

2.Nation State in a Globalizing World

Required Readings

Halliday Fred, “Global Governance: Prospects and Problems” in D. Held and A. McGrew eds., The Global
Transformations Reader, Polity Press, 2000.

Lauterpacht Eli, “Sovereignty – Myth or Reality”, International Affairs, 73, No. 1 (Jan, 1997), pp. 137150.

Scholte Jan Arte, “Globalization and the State”, in Andrew Linklater, ed., International Relations: Critical
Concepts in Political Science, Routledge, New York, 2000.

Strange Susan, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
3. The Unequal World: Economy, Political Power and Cultural Dominance

i) Cold War and Its Aftermath

ii) New Imperialism Debate

iii) Unipolarity and Multipolarity

iv) Forms of Dependency and Assertions 47

Required Readings

Harvey David, The New Imperialism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Roy Sumit, “Globalisation, Structural Change and Poverty: Some Conceptual and policy Issues”,
Economic and Political Weekly, 32, nos. 33-34 (Aug. 1623, 1997) 2117-2135.

Walker R.B.J., One World, Many Worlds: Struggles for a Just World Peace, Lynne Rienner, Colorado,
1998.

4. War and Peace

i) Old and New Wars

ii) Conflicts and Conflict Resolution

iii) Global Terrorism

Required Readings

Ackermann Alice, “The Idea and Practice of Conflict Prevention”, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 46, No.
3, 2003, pp. 339-347.

Cohen Frank S, “Proportional Versus Majoritarian Ethnic Conflict Management in Democracies”,

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 30, 1997, pp. 607-630.

Dmoke W.K., War and the Changing Global System, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988.

Raldor M., New and old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1999.

Saighal Vinod, Dealing With Global Terrorism Way of Forward, 2003.

5.International / Regional Organizations

i) United Nations in a Globalizing World

ii) European Community

iii) The ASEAN

Required Readings

Diehi Paul F, The Politics of Global Convergence: International Organisation in an Interdependent World,
Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 1997.

Martin Lisa L. and Beth A. Simmons, “Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions”,
International Organization, Vol. 52, 1998, pp. 729-757.

Newhouse John, “Europe’s Rising Regionalism, Foreign Affairs, 76, No. 1 (JanFeb, 1997), 76-84.

Pevehouse J.C., “With a Little Help from My Friends? Regional Organizations and the Consolidation of
Democracy”, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2002, pp. 611-626.

6.International Regimes (on Trade, Environment, Nonproliferation and Human Rights)

“Encounters on the Frontiers of International Human Rights Law: Redefining the Terms of Indigenous
Peoples’ Survival in the World”, Duke Law Journal, 1990, Hein Online.

Baehr Peter R., “Controversies in the Current International Human rights Debate”, Human Rights
Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, October 2000, pp. 732.

Dunn J., ed., Political Studies, (Special Issue on Human Rights). 48

Hempel L.C., Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge, Island Press, Washington D.C, 1996.

Krasner Stephen D., ed., International Regimes, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, 1983. Require
Required

7. South Asia and World Politics

i) Foreign Policies of South Asian States

ii) Major Powers and South Asia

iii) Regional Cooperation in South Asia

Required Readings

Basrur M. Rajesh ed., Security in the New Millennium: Views from South Asia, India Research Press, New
Delhi, 2001.

Hewitt Vernon, The New International Politics of South Asia, Manchester University Press, Manchester,
1997.
Phadnis Urmila, S.D. Muni, Kalim Bahadur, Domestic Conflicts in South Asia, South Asia, New Delhi,
1986.

Supplementary Readings

Bajpai Kanti P. and Harish C. Shukul, ed., Interpreting World Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 1995.

Baldwin D., ed., Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate, Columbia University Press,
New York, 1990.

Baylis John and Steve Smith, The Globalisation of World Politics: An Introduction to International
Relations, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.

Bull Hedley, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, Macmillan, London, 1977.

Easterly William, “Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict?” Economic Development and Cultural
Change, Vol. 49, July 2001, pp. 687 – 706.

Goor Luc Van De, Rupesinghe Kumar and Sciarone Paul, eds., Between Development and Destruction:
An Enquiry into the Causes of Conflict in Postcolonial States, Macmillan, London, 1996.

Greenhood C., “Is there a Right of Humanitarian Intervention”, The World Today, Vol. 49, 1993.

Guicherd Catherine, “International Law and the War in Kosovo”, Survival, Vol. 41: 2, Summer 1999, pp.
19-34.

Gurr Ted Robert, “Peoples against States: Ethnopolitical Conflict and the Changing World System: 1994
Presidential Address”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3, September 1994, pp. 347-377.

Habermas J, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, MIT Press, 1998.

Harshe Rajen, Twentieth Century Imperialism: Shifting Contours and Changing Conceptions, Sage, New
Delhi, 1997.

Held David, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance,
Polity Press, Cambridge, 1995.

Hironaka Fran D J, and E. Schofer, “The NationState and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth
Century”, American Sociological Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2000, pp. 96-116.

Ignatieff M., Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Princeton University Press, 2001.

Michael Hoel, “International Environment Conventions: The Case of Uniform Reductions of Emissions”,
Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 2:2, March 1992, pp. 141-159.

Muni S D, Understanding South Asia, South Asian Pub., New Delhi, 1994. 49
Niarchos C N, “Women, War and rape: Challenges facing the International Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia”, Human Rights Quarterly, 1995, pp. 649-690.

Ohmae Kenichi, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, Harper and
Collins, New York, 1991.

Pogge Thomas, “World Poverty and Human Rights”, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 19, Issue 1,
August 2006, pp. 1-7.

Preis AnnBelinda S., “Human Rights as Cultural Practice: An Anthropological Critique”, Human Rights
Quarterly, 18, 1996, pp. 286-315.

Ramakrishnan A.K., “Neoliberalism, Globalisation and Resistance: The Case of India”, in Elvind Hovden
and Edward Keene, eds., Globalisation of Liberalism?, Macmillan, London.

Rosenau, J.N., Turbulence in World politics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1990.

UNDP, Human Development Reports.