Lecture Notes

Part A: Contemporary World Politics

  • Disintegration of Soviet Union, Unipolar World, Middle East Crisis – Afghanistan, Gulf
    War, Democratic Politics and Democratization – CIS and the 21st Century (Arab Spring)

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      • Organizations: European Union, ASEAN, SAARC, BRICS. Nations: Russia, China, Israel, India, Japan and South Korea.

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  • Conflicts and efforts for Peace Democratization in South Asia: Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives.

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  • Principal Organs, Key Agencies: UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, ILO, Security Council and the Need for its Expansion

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  • Security: Meaning and Type; Terrorism.

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  • Environmental Movements, Global Warming and Climate Change, Conservation of Natural Resources Degradation

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  • Globalization: Meaning, Manifestation and Debates

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Part B: Politics in India since Independence

  • Nation and Nation Building. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and Integration of States. Nehru’sapproach to nation-building; Legacy of partition: challenge of ‘refugee’ Resettlement, the Kashmir problem. Political conflicts over language. Linguistic Organisation of States.

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      • Changing nature of India’s Economic Development Planning Commission and Five Year Plans, National Development Council, NITI Aayog.

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  • Principles of Foreign Policy; India’s Changing Relations with Other Nations: US, Russia, China, Israel; India’s Relations with its Neighbours: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar; India’s Nuclear Programme.
  • One Party Dominance, Bi-Party System, Multi-Party Coalition System.

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  • Jaya Prakash Narayan and Total Revolution, Ram Manohar Lohia and Socialism, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya and Integral Humanism, National Emergency, Democratic Upsurges – Participation of the Adults, Backwards and Youth.

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  • Rise of regional parties. Punjab Crisis. The Kashmir Issue, Movements for Autonomy.

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  • Era of Coalitions, National Front, United Front, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) – I & II, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) I, II, III & IV, Issues of Development and Governance.

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