Universität Wien

140188 VO From nonalignement to nuclear power: the foreign policy of independent India (2018S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
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Language: German

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  • Monday 07.05. 14:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 08.05. 12:00 - 14:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Wednesday 09.05. 14:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Monday 14.05. 14:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Tuesday 15.05. 12:00 - 14:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Wednesday 16.05. 14:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Wednesday 23.05. 13:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Thursday 24.05. 10:15 - 12:45 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Friday 25.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Aussenpolitik des British Raj und ihr Einfluss auf das neue Indien
Einfluesse auf die Formung der indischen Aussenpolitik bei Unabhaengigkeit
Ausganslage 1947, Herausforderungen (Fuerstenstaaten, Partition, Pakistan, China-Tibet)
Grundsaetzliche Weichenstellung – Blockfreiheit
Phasen der indischen Aussenpolitik – von Nehru bis heute
Beziehungen zu den Grossmaechten und Regionen: USA, Sowjetunion/Russland, China, Europa, Westasien, Afrika
Nachbarschaftspolitik
Pakistan, Kaschmir
Sicherheitspolitik, Abruestung, nukleare Frage
Indien heute: Herausforderungen an das moderen Indien, globale Aspirationen, Neupositionierung, 'soft power'.

Assessment and permitted materials

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Reading list

Bibliographie
Akbar, M.J., Nehru-The Making of India (Roli Books New Delhi, 2002)
Cohen, Stephen P., India Emerging Power (Bookings Institution Press, Washington D.C., 2001)
Cohen, Stephen P., Shooting for a century-Finding answers to the India-Pakistan conundrum (HarperCollins India 2013)
Dixit, J.N., India’s Foreign Policy 1947-2003 (Picus Books New Delhi, 2003)
Dixit, J.N.; Makers of India's Foreign Policy (HarperCollins India 2004)
Ganguly, Sumit (editor); India's Foreign Policy – Retrospedt and Prospect (OUP 2010)
Guha, Ramachandra, India after Gandhi: The History of the World largest Democracy (Picador 2007)
Jha, Prem Shankar, Kashmir 1947, The Origins of a Dispute (Oxford University Press 2003)
Kaplan, Robert D.,Monsoon-The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House New York 2010)
Khilnani, Sunil, The Idea of India (Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1998)
Malone, David. M.; Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy (OUP 2011)
Malone, David M., Mohan, C. Raja, Raghavan, Srinath; The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (OUP 2015)
Mohan, C.Raja, Crossing the Rubicon-The Shaping of India痴 New Foreign Policy (Penguin Books, New Delhi 2003)
Mohan, C.Raja, Samudra Manthan- Sino Indian rivalry in the IIndo-Pacific (Oxford University Press 2013)
Panagariya, Arvind, India: The Emerging Giant (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Preisendanz, Karin und Rothermund, Dietmar (Hg.); Suedasien in der Neuzeit-Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 1500-2000 (Edition Weltregionen, Wien 2003)
Ray, Jayanta Kumar; India's Foreign Relations 1947 – 2007 (Routledge 2011)
Saran, Shyam; How India sees the World (Juggernaut 2017)
Sen Amartya, The argumentative Indian (Allan Lane/Penguin 2005)
Sinha, Atish and Mohta, Madhup, Editors, Indian Foreign Policy (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2007)
Wolpert, Stanley, Shameful Flight, The last Years of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press 2006)

Association in the course directory

BA13, IMAK5A, EC1-1;

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