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INDIA AND THE WORLD - The International Relations of a Rising Power |
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MAIN AIMS OF THE MODULE
The module aims to:
The module provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas:
(A) Knowledge and Understanding
Students will be able to:
(B) Cognitive (thinking) Skills
Students will be able to:
(C) Other Skills and Attributes (Practical/Professional/Transferable)
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MAIN TOPICS OF STUDY:
A geographical-conceptual framework is present, using India’s own foreign policy formulations on concentric circles, near neighbourhood, extended neighbourhood and India’s Century. Such concepts are exemplified with particular reference to India’s ‘regional’ presence in the South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and elsewhere in Asia. Such geographic (and geo-political) considerations are complemented by India’s ‘global’ relations with other Great Powers and her role in international organizations. Such avenues and venues are entwined with considerations of India’s actual ‘power’- both in terms of her ‘hard power’ (military-security and economic) and her ‘soft power’ (culture, ideology and image). General International Relations (IR) theory and paradigms are also considered
TEACHING TIMETABLE
LEARNING RESOURCES
TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS/STRATEGIES
ASSESSMENT
Titles
(1) To what extent do Raja Mohan's "neo-Curzonians" reflect the logic of Curzon's time, and how important are they for understanding India's foreign policy under post-1998 administrations?
(2) How substantial is India's rise?
(3) How far has Pakistan blocked India's natural preeminence in South Asia; and how far are other countries in South Asia starting to play a similar role?
(4) To what extent are Sino-Indian relations inside South Asia, mirrored by Sino-Indian relations outside South Asia?
(5) To what extent has India's previous closeness with the Soviet Union/Russia been replaced by more successful growing closeness with the US?
(6) To what extent has a "continentalist land mindset" been replaced for India by "Mahanian visions" of maritime power?
(7) Discuss and illustrate the relationship between military, economic and energy factors in India's 'extended neighbourhood' policy.
(8) "It is said that the logic of geography is unrelenting and proximity is the most difficult and testing among diplomatic challenges a country faces" (Saran, 2005). How far do geopolitical imperatives shape India's foreign policy?
(9) To what extent has failures in the 'immediate neighbourhood' driven India to seek success in her 'extended neighbourhood'?
(10) Compare and contrast India's relations with the EU and with Japan.
(11) In what ways does India's "swing" value practically and effectively express itself in the international system?
(12) How far has India's old and ineffective idealistic non-alignment position been swept aside by IR realism "balancing" imperatives?
ADVICE
SUBMISSIONS-LATENESS- MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES-EXTENSIONS-APPEALS
It is strongly recommended that students submit their coursework well before 3 pm, which is the last point that work can be submitted without penalty. Last minute delays with traffic can happen: it is part of your responsibility to time your work to minimise the chances that such incidents will prevent you submitting the work before the last permitted time. It is your responsibility to plan your work so that it is ready in good time. Computer or printer failure, traffic delays or public transport difficulties are not acceptable excuses for missing deadlines. Do not leave it to the last minute!!!!!!
One copy of your assignment should be submitted at the Undergraduate Office, MJ103, the other should be submitted via U-Link. It is strongly recommended that students submit their coursework well before 3 pm, which is the last point that work can be submitted without penalty. An appropriate cover sheet must be completed and attached to the paper copy, available at the Undergraduate Office. It is your responsibility to get work in on time: do not pass it to someone else to hand in! There is a sliding scale of penalties for late work: up to 1 working day late capped at 70%, 2 days late capped at 60%, 5 days late capped at 50%, 10 days late capped at 40%, 15 days late capped at 30%. Work submitted later than 15 days late will receive 0%.
Where mitigating circumstances are submitted this must be done within seven days, to the UG Assistant School Manager (UGASM), Emma Perry (MJ104). Mitigation is only given for genuine medical reasons; documentary evidence is required for illness, bereavements or family illness. If you are confined to bed or hospital by illness, you should ensure a letter postmarked before the due date is sent to UGASM. If you are ill on the due date or exam date, you must produce evidence within seven days that you were undergoing medical treatment on that day. Weddings, holidays or other voluntary commitments are not mitigating circumstances.
Any mitigating circumstances and supporting evidence (including, where appropriate self-certification forms) must be submitted to Emma Perry, the UG Assistant School Manager (MJ104)within seven days of the submission deadline/assessment date in order for them to be considered, as specified in Senate Regulation 4.
Requests for extensions are not dealt with by Module Lecturers, but are instead handed by the Undergraduate Office.
Please see Senate Ordinance 13 for information regarding appeals against the decision of the Board of Examiners. Such appeals must be made within 21 days of the notification of results.
PLAGIARISM:
Students’ attention is drawn to your Handbook and to Senate Ordinances on plagiarism (i.e. passing someone else’s words off as your own). All direct quotations must be indicated with quotation marks and accurately foot/endnoted. Plagiarism is a serious offence and will result in a grade of 0 for the coursework and possible expulsion from the University. Simply putting a reference, but not indicating by using quotation marks that wording is taken unchanged from the source is still plagiarism. Be warned
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