Foreign Policy Analysis
Overview
Objectives:
The course is designed to enlighten the students about the concepts and schools of thought in foreign policy analysis, concentrating particularly on the process of decision- making in the International System. The students will study the foreign policies of selected countries in order to understand the policy debate in the light of great power actions and weak state problems.
Contents:
1. Conceptual Framework of Foreign Policy: Definition and its Tools;
2. Various Approaches to the Study of Foreign Policy;
3. Kinds of Foreign Policy:
Ethical
Offensive Traditional Radical
Pragmatic.
4. Structure and nature of International Politics;
5. Economics as an Instrument in International Politics;
6. State Strengths and Weaknesses: Limitations of State Actions;
7. Process of formulation of Foreign Policy in developed and developing countries;
8. Foreign Policy: Determinants and Objectives;
9. Radical Changes in Foreign Policy after 9/11;
Credit hours/ Marks:- 03 Cr. Hrs.
1. Charles F. Hermann, et. al New Directions in the Study of Foreign Policy, Boston, Allen & Unwin, 1987.
2. David Louis Cingranelli, Ethics, American Foreign Policy and the Third World , New York, St. Martins, 1993.
3. Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, New York, Alfred A. Knof, 1980.
4. James N. Rosenau, Pre-Theories and Theories of Foreign Policy: One time Fad, Realized Fantasy and Normal Field” in Charles W. Kegley (Eds.) International Events and the Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy, New York, University Press, 1998.
5. John G. Ikenberry, (Ed.), American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, Boston, Scott Foresman, 2001.
6. John R. Faus, China in the World Politics, Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 2005.
7. K.J. Holsti, International Politics: A Framework for Analysis, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 2004.
8. P.M. Kamath, and Krishan D. Mathur, Conduct of India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi, Longfellow, 2001.
9. S.M. Burke, Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis< London, Palgrave, 2003.
10. Stephen P.Cohen, India: Emerging Power, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002.