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M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUS 3910. Jan Nederveen Pieterse, World Orders in the Making : Humanitarian Intervention and Beyond, Houndmills,Macmillan, 1998.11. Jan Nijman, The Geopolitics of Power and Conflict : Superpowers in the International Systems, London andNew York : Belhaven Press, 1993.12. John, Agnew and Stuart Corbridge, Mastering Space, Hegemony, Territory and Political Economy, London,New York : Routledge, 1995.13. John, Agnew, Geopolitics : Revisioning World Politics, London and New York : Routledge, 1998.14. Klaus, John Dodds, "Geopolitics, Cartography and the State in South America," Political Geography 12 (4),July 1993 : 361-381.15. Kurt Mills, Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order, A New Sovereignty, Houndmills : Macmillan PressLimited, 1998.16. Mathew, B. Fielden, "The Geopolitics of Aid : The Provision and Termination of Aid to Afghan Refugees inNorth West Frontier Province, Pakistan," Political Geography, 1998, 17 (4) : 459-487.17. Simon, Dalby, Creating the Second Cold War, London : Pinter, 1990.Journals :1. Geopolitics (see Special Issue on “11 September and its Aftermath : The Geopolitics of Terror”, Volume 8,Number 3, September 1998.2. Agnew, J., “American Hegemony into American Empire”, Antipode, 35(5) : 871-885, 2003.3. Gregory, D., The Colonial Present, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.4. Kelly, P., “A Critique of Critical Geopolitics”, Geopolitics, 11 (1) : 24-53, 2006.Option (f) : THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENTINSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER-SETTERS AND CANDIDATES :(i)(ii)The theory question paper will be of 80 marks and 20 marks will be for internal assessment.For private candidates, who have not been assessed earlier for internal assessment, the marks secured by them intheory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu of internal assessment.The paper setter must put note (ii) in the question paper.The syllabus has been divided into four units.There shall be 9 questions in all. The first question is compulsory and shall be short answer type containing 15 shortquestions spread over the whole syllabus to be answered in about 25 to 30 words each. The candidates are required toattempt any 10 short answer type questions carrying 20 marks i.e. 2 marks for each. Rest of the paper shall contain 4units. Each unit shall have two questions, and the candidates shall be given internal choice of attempting one questionfrom each Unit – 4 in all. Each question will carry 15 marks.Objective : This Course introduces students to the significant ways in which development has been conceptualised. Ittracks the main grounds on which mainstream models of development have been critiqued and the key issues facingcontemporary development theory.Unit-IDevelopment as economic growth–capitalist and socialist models.Theories of modernisation.Neo-liberalism and globalisation.Role of the state, welfare and redistribution.Unit-IIDependency, Underdevelopment and world system analysis.Human development–Basic Needs, capability approach, rights based approaches.Notion of social capital.