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34 M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUSUnit-IThe politics of terminology : From “Non-state actors” to “Transnational actors”.Limitations of state-centric framework and emergence of transnational actors.Unit-IITheorizing different types of transnational actors in International Politics.Transnational companies; Regional economic groupings; strategic and security actors; Non-legitimategroups and liberation movements; and Non-governmental organizations.Unit-IIIPost-War Economy and the International Monetary System : International Monetary Fund and World Bank.Dynamics of Regional Integration : European experience.Beyond Europe: The global rise of regionalism (special reference to ASEAN and SAARC).Unit-IVCartelization of Natural Resources in the Age of Globalization : OPEC.Issues and challenges in international environmental politics.Suggested Readings :1. John Baylis and Steve Smith, The Globalization of World Politics : An Introduction to InternationalRelations (Oxford University Press : New York, 2001).2. R. O. Keohane and J. S. Nye (eds.), Transnational Relations and World Politics (Cambridge Mass:Harvard University Press, 1972).3. T.G. Weiss and L. Gordenker (eds.), NGOs, the UN and Global Governance (Boulder, Colo. :Lynne Rienner, 1996).4. P. Willets (ed.), Pressure Groups in the Global System : The Transnational Relations of Issue-Oriented Non-Governmental Organizations (London : Pinter, 1982).5. P. Willets (ed.), ‘The Conscience of the World’ : The Influence of Non-Governmental Organizationsin the UN System (London: Hurst and Co., 1996).6. T. Risse-Kappen (ed.), Bringing Transnational Relations Back In (Cambridge : CambridgeUniversity Press, 1995).7. J. N. Rosenau, The Study of Global Interdependence : Essays on the Transnationalisation of theWorld Affairs (London : Pinter, 1990).8. A.J.R. Groom and P. Taylor, Frameworks for International Co-operation (London : Pinter, 1990).9. Michael Nicholson, International Relations : A Concise Introduction, Second Edition (New York:Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002).10. Robert Keohane, International Institutions and State Power : Essays in International RelationsTheory (Boulder: Westview, 1989).11. John Madeley, Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations in theWorld’s Poor (London: Zed Books, 1999).12. Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (New York : OxfordUniversity Press, 1993).13. John E. Spero and Jeffery A. Hart, The Politics of International Economic Relations, 5 th ed. (NewYork, St. Martin’s Press, 1997).14. Alan C. Lamborn and Joseph Lepgold, World Politics into the Twenty-First Century : UniqueContexts, Enduring Patterns, (New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 2003).