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142147 VO From nonalignment to nuclear power: the foreign policy of independent India (2021S)

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Language: German

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Die LV wird voraussichtlich digital abgehalten. Wenn Präsenzlehre möglich ist: SR 6.

Wednesday 12.05. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Friday 14.05. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Wednesday 19.05. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Friday 21.05. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Wednesday 26.05. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Friday 28.05. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Wednesday 02.06. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
Friday 04.06. 09:30 - 12:00 Digital
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Themen:
• Außenpolitik des British Raj und ihr Einfluss auf das unabhängige Indien
• Innere und äußere Einflüsse auf die Formung der indischen Außenpolitik bei Unabhängigkeit
• Ausgangslage 1947, Herausforderungen (Fürstenstaaten, Partition, Pakistan, China-Tibet)
• Grundsätzliche Weichenstellung – Blockfreiheit
• Phasen der indischen Außenpolitik – von Nehru bis heute
• Beziehungen zu den Großmächten und Regionen: USA, Sowjetunion/Russland, China, Europa, Westasien, Afrika
• Nachbarschaftspolitik, besonders Pakistan
• Problem Kaschmir
• Sicherheitspolitik, Abrüstung, nukleare Frage
• Indien heute: Herausforderungen an das moderen Indien, globale Aspirationen, Neupositionierung, 'soft power'.

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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)
• Jaishankar, S.; The Indian Way – Strategies or an uncertain World (HarperCollins 2020)
• 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, IMAK5B

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