| Course Status : | Ongoing |
| Course Type : | Core |
| Duration : | 15 weeks |
| Category : |
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| Credit Points : | 5 |
| Level : | Undergraduate |
| Start Date : | 15 Jul 2024 |
| End Date : | 31 Oct 2024 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 31 Aug 2024 |
| Exam Date : | 14 Dec 2024 IST |
| Exam Shift: : | Second |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
Week 1: Introduction to the Meaning of the concept of
globalisation and global politics, changes and continuities in global politics
and issues and debates in globalisation.
Week 2: Issues and debates on globalisation and
understanding the concept of globalisation through the lens of core
international relations theories - Realism, Liberalism, Marxism,
Constructivism, Post-Colonialism, Post-Structuralism, Feminism and Green
Politics.
Week 3: Understanding the globalist and sceptics
debates on culture, economy, world order and the public good.
Week 4: Introduction to the debates on sovereignty and
territoriality, transformation of the state’s role and shift from government to
governance, humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty and understanding
the concept, perspective and strands regarding Borders.
Week 5: The concept of a borderless world, the
emergence of the global economy, the historical background of capitalist
expansion and the Bretton Woods system.
Week 6: The structure, characteristics, functions and
critical analysis of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World
Trade Organisation.
Week 7: Globalisation and transnational organisations,
the concept of Globalization, Culture and
Technology, the role of technology
in cultural globalisation, and the impact of globalisation on culture and how
cultural transformation will happen.
Week 8: The concept of multiculturalism, the meaning
and reason of global resistance and the role
played by actors of global resistance, i.e. global civil society, social
movement and NGOs.
Week 9: Globalisation and global inequality, ecological
issues in global politics, changes in international environmentalism and the
concept of climate change.
Week 10: Evolution of International Environmental
Agreements, issues related to resource security, the concept and themes
pertaining to environmental philosophy and the concept of nuclear
non-proliferation.
Week 11: Proliferation of nuclear weapons and the
nuclear non-proliferation regime, nuclear challenges in the post-Cold War
period, introduction to the concept of terrorism and the different waves of
modern terrorism.
Week 12: The impact of the 9/11 attack on global
politics, the global war on terror, the concept of transnational terrorism,
technology and counter-terrorism, the historical background of migration in
human history and the different types and categories of migration.
Week 13: Migration and its reason, the reaction against
migration, lack of governance of migrants and its impact, introduction to human
security and its debates and controversies.
Week 14: promotion and challenges to human security,
global agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), the global south and the
concept and role of power in world politics.
Week 15: Global
governance and its transformation, different regimes and institutions, the
concept of minilaterals in world politics, different minilaterals initiatives
of the contemporary world, and an introduction to Indo-Pacific.
1.
Ritzer,
G., & Dean, P. (2010). Globalization: A basic text. John Wiley
& Sons.
2.
M. Strager, (2009) Globalization: A Very Short Introduction,
London: Oxford University Press
3.
J.
S Nye, & R. Keohane, (2000). Globalization: What’s new? What’s not? (And
so, what?). Foreign Policy, 118(1), 104-120.
4.
Heywood, A. (2011). Global politics. Palgrave
Macmillan
5.
Cohn, T. H. (2008). Global Political Economy: Theory
and Practice. Longman Publishing Group.
6.
Baylis, J., Owens, P., & Smith, S. (2017). The
Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations.
8th Edition. Oxford University Press.
7.
O’Brien, R. (2000). Contesting global governance:
Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements. Cambridge
University Press.
8.
Viotti, P. & Kauppi, M. (2007) International
Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy and Identity. New Delhi:
Pearson.
9.
Vanaik, A.
(Ed.). (2007). Masks of Empire. Tulika Books.
10. Chimni,
B. & Mallavarapu, S. (eds.) International Relations: Perspectives for
the Global South, New Delhi: Pearson
11. Acharya, A. (2001). Human security: East
versus West. International Journal, 56(3), 442-460
12. Rosenau, J. N. (1992). Governance,
Order, and Change in World Politics. In Rosenau and E. O. Czempiel,
eds., Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics.
Cambridge University Press
Dr.
Obja Borah Hazarika is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Political Science at Dibrugarh University,
Assam. She completed her Master’s and M.Phil from the School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her PhD is from Dibrugarh
University on Analyzing the Strategic Dimensions of the Look East Policy
(1991-2023). Her areas of interest include International Relations and Indian
Foreign Policy. She is the author of the book titled “Paradigms of
Paradiplomacy in Northeast India: Assam’s Cross-border Concerns and Engagements
(2021). Dr. Hazarika has 11 years of teaching experience.
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