B.Tech

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 201
• Course: B.Tech
• Semester:
• Title: India’s Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
• Stream:

• Preamble:

  The course is intended to introduce students to the issues and changing dynamics of India’s

  external relations. The course will familiarize students with the basic concepts, determinants,

  interests, institutions and changes in India’s foreign policy since independence. The first part of

  the course will focus on the approaches, the historical development and India’s grand strategy

  debates. The second part of the course will examine the changing dynamics of India’s relations

  with its neighbors in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The course also intends to engage students

  with the debates on the continuity and changes in external relations between India and other

  extra-regional powers.

   

  Course Content

  Key approaches: systemic, national interests, leadership, behaviourist, rational choice, image and

  identity; Continuity and change: India’s grand strategy, sovereignty, non-alignment, regional

  hegemony, security policy, strategic autonomy, multifaceted diplomacy, disarmament,

  neighborhood first policy; Geopolitical and security imperatives in South Asia and beyond:

  Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Central Asian republics,

  external relations between India, United States and European Union; Regional arrangements:

  SAARC, ASEAN, BCIM and BBIN; Issues and problems: insurgencies, IDPs, refugees, cross-

  border security.

   

  Books and References

  1. ​Arjun Appadurai, Domestic Roots of India’s Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 1981.

  2. M. Brecher, India and World Affairs: Krishna Menon’s View of the World, Free Press, 1968.

  3. Kanti Bajpai and Harsh V Pant,(ed.), India’s Foreign Policy: A Reader, Oxford University Press, 2013.

  4. Mohan, C. Raja, Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India’s New Foreign Policy, Viking Press,

  2003.

  5. Sumit Ganguly, India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect, Oxford University Press, 2010.

  6. Shivshankar Menon, Choices: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy, Penguin, 2018.

  7. David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan & Srinath Raghavan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of India’s

  Foreign Policy, Oxford University Press, 2015