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60 M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (SEMESTER SYSTEM) SYLLABUSCourse XIV : FOREIGN POLICY OF INDIA (Compulsory)INSTRUCTIONS 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 securedby them in theory paper will proportionately be increased to maximum marks of the paper in lieu ofinternal 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 typecontaining 15 short questions spread over the whole syllabus to be answered in about 25 to 30 words each.The candidates are required to attempt any 10 short answer type questions carrying 20 marks i.e. 2 marksfor each. Rest of the paper shall contain 4 units. Each unit shall have two questions, and the candidatesshall be given internal choice of attempting one question from each Unit – 4 in all. Each question will carry15 marks.Objectives : The course tries to underline the changes, which the shifting nature of world order hasinduced into the more enduring elements and themes of Indian foreign policy. At the same time, India’sgrowing assertion on the world stage as an important international actor is assessed in the light of its role invarious global regimes.Unit-IHistorical and Cultural Roots of Indian Foreign Policy.Principal phases of Indian Foreign Policy.Unit-IIForeign Policy and the changing world order : The role and relevance of nonalignment.Unit-IIIForeign policy and the changing strategic environment : End of bipolarity and cold war, unipolarity,nuclear proliferation, terrorism.Unit-IVForeign policy and the changing world economy : North-south divide, neocolonialism, demand for newinternational economic order, globalisation and WTO regimes.Suggested Readings :1. A. Appadorai and M. S. Rajan, India’s Foreign Policy and Relations (New Delhi : South AsianPublishers, 1985).2. A.P. Rana, Imperatives of Non-Alignment : A Conceptual Study of India’s Foreign Policy, Strategyin the Nehru Period (Delhi : Macmillan, 1976).3. Itty Abraham, The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb : Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State,(New York : Zed Books, 1998).4. Achin Vanaik, India in a Changing World (New Delhi : Orient Longman, 1995).5. M.J. Akbar, Nehru : The Making of India (London, Penguin, 1988).6. Bimal Prasad (ed.), Indian Foreign Policy (New Delhi, Vikas).7. C. Raja Mohan, Crossing the Rubicon : The Shaping of India’s Foreign Policy (Palgrave,Macmillan, 2004).