UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

CNC-II/093/1(23)/2022-23/426
Dated: 22.02.2023
NOTIFICATION
Sub: Amendment to Ordinance V
[E.C Resolution No. 38-1/ (38-1-2) dated 08.12.2022]

Following addition be made to Appendix-II-A to the Ordinance V (2-A) of the

Ordinances of the University;

Add the following:

Syllabi of Semester-II of the following departments under Faculty of Social Sciences

based on Under Graduate Curriculum Framework -2022 to be implemented from
the Academic Year 2022-23.

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Category-I
BA (Hons.) Political Science

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE – 4: Perspectives on Public Administration

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE

COURSE

Course title & Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-
Code Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria requisite of
Practice the course
(if any)
Perspectives on 4 3 1 0 12th Pass NIL
Public
Administration
DSC 4

Learning Objectives

The course provides an introduction to the discipline of public administration. This paper
encompasses public administration in its historical context with an emphasis on the various
classical and contemporary administrative theories. The course also explores some of the
non-mainstream trends, including feminism and perspectives from the Global South on
public administration

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Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, the student can be expected to

• Have a comprehensive understanding of the conceptual roots of the discipline of
Public Administration
• Understand how theorising is done in this discipline
• Understand how new perspectives like that of gender influence the orientation of both
theory and practice in the discipline.

SYLLABUS OF DSC-4

UNIT – I (12 Hours)

Public Administration as a Discipline
a. Ancient Roots of Public Administration: Perspectives from India (Kautilya’s
Arthashastra)
b. Modern PA: An overview of the theoretical journey
c. Principles of Public Administration
d. Theorising Public Administration

UNIT – II (15 Hours)

Mainstream/ Traditional Theoretical Perspectives
a. Scientific management (F.W.Taylor)
b. Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)
c. Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)
d. Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)
e. Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)

UNIT – (09 Hours)

Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
a. New Public Management, New Public Service
b. Multiple Perspectives on Governance: Good Governance, Collaborative
Governance, Network Governance, Digital Governance

UNIT – IV (09 Hours)

Gender Perspectives on Public Administration
a. Gender and Governance
b. Gender sensitivity and participation in administration

Essential/recommended readings
Unit 1. Public Administration as a Discipline
a. Ancient Roots of Public Administration
Kumar, A. Administration in Kautilya’s Arthashastra in M.M. Shankhder & G. Kaur Politics
in India Deep and Deep Publicaitons, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 83-94.
Muniyapan, B. Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Perspectives on Organizational Management
Asian Social Science Vol. 4, No. 1 January 2008, PP. 30-34.
b. Modern PA: An overview of the theoretical journey
D. Rosenbloom, R. Kravchuk. and R. Clerkin (2022), Public Administration: Understanding
Management, Politics and Law in Public Sector, 9th edition, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-40.

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W. Wilson (2004) ‘The Study of Administration’, in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya
(eds), Administrative Change and Innovation: A Reader, New Delhi: OUP, pp. 85-101.
c. Principles of Public Administration
Nicholas Henry, Public Administration and Public Affairs, Prentice Hall, Ch 2(Paradigms of
Public Administration).
d. Theorising Public Administration
F. H. George, K. B. Smith, C. W. Larimer and M. J. Licari (2015) The Public Administration
Theory Primer, Chapter Introduction: The Possibilities of Theory, Routledge.
Unit 2. Mainstream/ Traditional Theoretical Perspectives:
D. Gvishiani (1972) Organisation and Management, Moscow: Progress Publishers.
F. Taylor (2004), ‘Scientific Management’, in J. Shafritz, and A. Hyde (eds.) Classics of
Public Administration, 5th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth.
P. Mouzelis (2003), ‘The Ideal Type of Bureaucracy’ in B. Chakrabarty, And M.
Bhattacharya (eds), Public Administration: A Reader, New Delhi: OUP.
D. Ravindra Prasad, Y. Pardhasaradhi, V. S. Prasad and P. Satyrnarayana (eds.) (2010),
Administrative Thinkers, Sterling Publishers.
M. Weber (1946), ‘Bureaucracy’, in C. Mills, and H. Gerth, From Max Weber: Essays in
Sociology Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Warren G. Bennis (1973), Beyond Bureaucracy, Mc Graw Hill.
R. Arora (2003) ‘Riggs’ Administrative Ecology’ in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya
(eds), Public Administration: A reader, New Delhi, Oxford University Press.
F. Riggs (1964) Administration in Developing Countries: The Theory of Prismatic Society
Boston: Houghton Miffin.
Unit 3. Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
a. New Public Management, New Public Service
S.P. Osborne, & K. Mclaughlin, New Public Management in Context in S.P. Osborne, K.
Mclaughlin & E. Ferlie (eds). New Public Management: Current Trends and Future
Prospects, Routledge, London and New York, 2002, pp.7-33.
b. Multiple Perspectives on Governance
A. Manoharan and M. Holzer, E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and
Determinants of E-Democracy, IGI Global: PA, USA, 2012.
S. Dhal, E-Governance and Citizen Engagement: New Directions in Public Administration,
New Delhi: Sage Publishers, 2022.
Unit 4. Gender Perspectives on Public Administration
C. Stivers, Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative
State, California: Sage, 2002, Introduction.
A. S. Wharton, The Sociology of Gender, West Sussex: Blackwell-Wiley, 2012.
S. Dhall, Public Policy Discourse and Sexual Minorities: Balancing Democratic Aspirations,
Political Expediency and Moral Rights, Indian Journal of Public Administration, 68 (1),
2022.

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Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination
Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE – 5: Methods and Approaches in Comparative

Political Analysis

Credit distribution, Eligibility and Pre-requisites of the Course

Course title & Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-
Code Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria requisite of
Practice the course
(if any)
Methods and 4 3 1 0 12th Pass NIL
Approaches in
Comparative
Political Analysis
DSC 5

Learning Objectives

This is a foundational course in comparative politics. The aim of this course is to introduce
students to the foundational concepts, methods, approaches and the historical legacy of the
discipline. The paper offers in-depth discussion on methods, different approaches in terms of
their advantages and disadvantages to help understand politics in a critical-comparative
framework. Students would be made familiar to the diversity of approaches to study politics
such as institutionalism, political culture, political economy and specific debates within each
of the approaches. Discussion on a diversity of approaches will highlight different tools,
perspectives and parameters to understand the behaviour and functioning of institutions in a
political system. This paper would also impart students the ability to use the analytical frame
of gender with reference to specific issues like the women’s political representation in
comparative perspective. The paper will inculcate reflective thinking and research aptitude in
students as they will learn to apply these critical outlooks in understanding politics and
political processes, particularly from the perspective of developing societies.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students would demonstrate:

• An understanding of the nature, scope, methodology, and legacy of the sub-discipline.
• Awareness of the evolution of the sub-discipline of comparative politics and the
challenge of Eurocentrism in the discipline.
• An in-depth understating of various approaches to the study of politics in a
comparative framework.
• A basic training in comparative research.

SYLLABUS OF DSC- 5

UNIT – I (09 Hours)

Understanding Comparative Politics
a. Nature and scope
b. Why Compare

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 c. Understanding Comparative Method: How to compare countries: large n,
small n, single countries studies
d. Going beyond Eurocentrism

UNIT – II (6 Hours)
Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political System, Structural functional
analysis

UNIT – III (6 Hours)

Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Traditional and Neo-Institutionalisms
a. Historical Institutionalism
b. Rational Choice Theory
c. Sociological Institutionalism

UNIT – IV (9 Hours)
Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political Culture
a. Civic Culture (Sydney Verba)
b. Subculture (Dennis Kavanagh)
c. Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
d. Post materialism (Ronald Inglehart)
e. Social capital (R. Putnam)

UNIT – V (9 Hours)
Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics: Political Economy
a. Underdevelopment
b. Dependency
c. Modernisation
d. World Systems Theory

UNIT – VI (6 Hours)
Gendering Comparative Politics
a. The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics
b. Political Representation: Women in Government and Politics

Essential/recommended readings

Unit 1. Understanding Comparative Politics

Landman, T. (2003). Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction, second
edition. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 3-22.
Gerring, J. (2007) The Case Study: What it Is and What it Does in Carles Boix and Susan C.
Stokes (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, Oxford University Press, pp 90-
122.
Lijphart, A. (1971). Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method. The American
Political Science Review, 65, No. 3, pp. 682-693.
Mohanty, M (1975) ‘Comparative Political Theory and Third World Sensitivity’, in Teaching
Politics, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 22-38
Chandhoke N (1996) ‘Limits of Comparative Political Analysis ‘, in Economic and
PoliticalWeekly, Vol. 31 (4), January 27, pp.PE 2-PE2-PE8

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Kopstein J., and Lichbach, M. (eds) (2005) Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and
Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-5;
16-36; 253-290.
Peters, B. Guy (2020) Approaches in comparative politics, in Caramani, D. (ed.)
Comparative Politics (5th Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Roy, A. (2001) ‘Comparative Method and Strategies of Comparison’, in Punjab Journal of
Politics. Vol. xxv (2), pp. 1-15.
Unit 2. Political System, Structural functional analysis
Almond, Gabriel et al. (2011) Comparing Political Systems, in Comparative Politics Today,
Pearson, pp. 28-38
Almond, Gabriel, Powell G. Bingham, Jr. (1966) An Overview (Ch 2), Comparative Politics,
A Developmental Approach, Stanford University.
Unit 3. Traditional and Neo-Institutionalisms
Blondel, J. (1996) ‘Then and Now: Comparative Politics’, in Political Studies. Vol. 47 (1),
pp. 152-160.
Pennington, M. (2009) ‘Theory, Institutional and Comparative Politics’, in J. Bara and M.
Pennington (eds.) Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic System. Sage Publications,
New Delhi, pp. 13-40.
Hague, R. and M. Harrop and McCormick, J. (2016) Theoretical Approaches Comparative
Government and Politics: An Introduction. (Tenth Edition). London: Palgrave McMillan.
Hall, P., and Rosemary C.R. Taylor (1996) ‘Political Science and the Three New
Institutionalism’, Political Studies. XLIV, pp. 936-957.
Rakner, L. and R. Vicky (2011) ‘Institutional Perspectives’, in P. Burnell, et. al. (eds.)
Political in the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 53-70.
Unit 4. Political Culture
Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba (1963). The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and
Democracy in Five Nations (Chapter 1).
Welzel, Christian and Ronald Inglehart (2020) Political culture, in Caramani, D. (ed.)
Comparative Politics (5th Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Huntington, Samuel P. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations. Foreign Affairs. 72 (3): 22–49.
Howard, M. (2009) ‘Culture in Comparative Political Analysis’, in M. Lichback and A.
Zuckerman, pp. 134- S. (eds.) Comparative Political: Rationality, Culture, and Structure.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosamond, B. (2008). Political Culture. In Axford, B., Browning, G. K., et. al (eds.), Politics:
An Introduction (2nd ed.). London and New York: Routledge, pp. 82-119.
Putnam, R. (2000) Thinking About Social Change in America (Ch 1), in Bowling Alone: The
Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon and Schuster
Gransci, A., Hegemony (Civil Society) and Separation of Powers, in Prison Notebooks,
Excerpt from Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, edited and translated
by Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (1999) Elec Book, pp. 506-507.
Unit 5. Political Economy
Chilcote, R. H. (2000) Comparative Inquiry in Politics and Political Economy: Theories and
Issues, Oxford: Westview Press, pp. 31-52, pp. 57-81.
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Esteva, G. (2010) Development in Sachs, W. (Eds.), The Development Dictionary: A Guide
to Knowledge as Power (2nd ed.). London: Zed Books, pp. 1-23.
So, A. Y. (1990) Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency and World-
System Theories. London: Sage, pp. 91-109.
Wallerstein, I. (1974) The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts
for Comparative Analysis, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 16, pp. 387-415
Unit 6. Gendering Comparative Politics
Baldez, Lisa (2010) Symposium. The Gender Lacuna in Comparative Politics. March 2010 |
Vol. 8/No. 199-205.
Beckwith, Karen (2010) Comparative Politics and the Logics of a Comparative Politics of
Gender. American Political Science Association. Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 159-168
Hague, Rod, Martin Harrop and McCormick (2019) Political Participation in Comparative
Government and Politics: An Introduction (11th Edition) Red Globe Press. pp.223-225.
Krook Mona Lena (2011) Gendering Comparative Politics: Achievements and Challenges.
Politics & Gender 7(1), pp 99-105.
Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination
Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.

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 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE – 6: Introduction to International Relations:
Theories, Concepts and Debates

Credit distribution, Eligibility and Pre-requisites of the Course

Course title Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite

& Code Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Practice (if any)
Introduction 4 3 1 0 12th Pass NIL
to
International
Relations:
Theories,
Concepts
and Debates
DSC 6

Learning Objectives

This paper introduces students to some of the key theories, concepts and debates of
international relations. While historically contextualizing the evolution of mainstream IR
theories, students will also learn about the leading debates aimed at de-centering and
pluralizing the knowledge-base of IR. The debates and conversations on the genealogies of
Indian perspectives on IR are anchored in this backdrop. The students will learn how to
critically engage with the Eurocentric view of IR through decolonial accounts that foreground
the agency of the colonial experience, race and culture that not only identify proximately with
the Global South but are also co-constitutive of European modernity, the social sciences and
the foundations of the IR discipline. The course weaves in some of the major concepts—
power, sovereignty, empire and international order—that push the boundaries of the
discipline through understandings derived from diverse standpoints. The final segment––
Global IR and the relational turn in international relations–apprises the students with the new
directions in the discipline.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, the students would have acquired:

• Familiarization with key theories, concepts, and debates of International Relations.
• Comprehensive re-reading of the origin of IR and its mainstream theories and
concepts, with basic tools to question statist ontology and reification of eurocentrism.
• Appreciation of decolonial accounts that challenge the mainstream and parochial
International Relations.
• Understanding of the genealogy and contributions of the IR scholarship in India to the
disciplinary debates through a re-reading of its classical texts and, contemporary
writings.
• Analysis of the assumptions and key concepts of IR such as power, sovereignty,
empire and international order.
• Learning about the new directions in IR via a critical engagement with Global IR and
the relational turn in IR.

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SYLLABUS OF DSC-6

UNIT – I (12 Hours)

What is IR and, its Contested Origins
a. What is IR
b. Reading the Big Bangs
c. Bringing in De-colonial Accounts
d. Understanding the genealogy of IR discipline in India

UNIT – II (15 Hours)

Theories of IR
a. Introduction to IR Theories
b. Realpolitik (Kautilya)/ Realism/ Neo-Realism
c. Liberalism/ Neo-liberalism
d. Marxism/ Neo-Marxism
e. Feminism
f. Constructivism

UNIT – III (9 Hours)

Concepts
a. Power
b. Sovereignty
c. Empire
d. International Order

UNIT – IV (9 Hours)
Exploring the Future Trajectories
a. Global IR
b. A Relational Turn?

Essential/recommended readings

Unit I. What is IR and the story of its contested origins

a. What is IR?
Essential Readings
David Blaney (2020), “Where, When and What is IR?”, in Arlene B, Tickner and Karen
Smith (eds.) International Relations from the Global South: World of Difference. Routledge:
New York.
Robert Jackson and Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘Why study IR’, in Introduction to International
Relations: Theories and Approaches, OUP: New York, pp.3-32.
Additional Readings
Nicholson, Michael (2002). International Relations: A Concise introduction, NYU Press:
NY. pp. 1-15.
Richard Devetak (2012). An introduction to international relations: The origins and changing
agendas of a discipline”, in R. Devetak, A. Burke and J. George (eds.) An Introduction to
International Relations, 2nd ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-19.

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b. Reading the Big Bangs
Essential readings
B. De Carvalho, H. Leira and J. M. Hobson (2011). The Big Bangs of IR: The Myths that
Your Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919. Millennium, 39(3): 735–758.
Kevin Blachford. (2021). ‘From Thucydides to 1648: The “Missing” Years in IR and the
Missing Voices in World History’ International Studies Perspectives, 22:4, pp. 495-508.
Additional readings
Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan (2019). ‘Introduction’ in A. Acharya & B. Buzan, The
Making of Global International Relations Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary,
Cambridge University Press: UK. pp. 1–7.
J. Havercroft (2012). “Was Westphalia ‘all that’? Hobbes, Bellarmine, and the norm of non-
intervention”. Global Constitutionalism, 1 (1): 120-140.
Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan (2019). ‘International Relations up to 1919: Laying the
Foundations’ in The Making of Global International Relations Origins and Evolution of IR at
its Centenary, Cambridge University Press: UK. pp. 33-66.
c. Bringing in De-colonial Account
Essential Readings
Peter Vale and Vineet Thakur (2020). ‘IR and the Making of the White Man’s World,’ in
A.B. Tickner and K. Smith (eds.) International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of
Difference, London: Routledge, pp. 56-74.
Shampa Biswas (2020). ‘Postcolonialism’, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith
(eds.) International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, London: OUP, pp. 219-
234.
वी एन खन्ना (2014) 'उप�नवेशवाद उन्मूलन तत
ृ ीय �वश्व का उदय', अंतरार्ष्ट्र�य सम्बन्ध, �वकास
पिब्लकेशन. (पष्ृ ठ संख्या: 449-469).
Additional Readings
Amitav Acharya, Barry Buzan (2017). “Why is there no Non-Western International Relations
Theory? Ten years on”, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific,17(3): 341–370.
Zeynep Gulsah Capan (2017). Decolonising International Relations? Third World Quarterly,
38 (1): 1-15.
Sankaran Krishna (2018). ‘Postcolonialism: The relevance for IR in a globalized world’ in
Randolph Persaud, Alina Sajed (Eds), Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
Postcolonial Perspectives, Routledge: NY, London.
Pinar Bilgin (2016). ‘How to remedy Eurocentrism in IR? A complement and a challenge
for The Global Transformation’, International Theory, 8 (3): pp. 492-501.
d. Understanding the genealogy of IR discipline in India
Essential Readings
Navnita Chadha Behara (2007). “Re-imagining IR in India”, International Relations of the
Asia-Pacific 7(3): 341-68.
Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu, eds. (2005). “International Relations in India:
Bringing Theory Back Home” New Delhi: Orient Longman. Chp.1. pp. 17-38
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Additional Readings
Ramchandra Guha (2009). ‘Introduction’. In Tagore, R., Nationalism. New Delhi:
Penguin.pp. vii-ix.
T. V. Paul (2009).“ Integrating International Relations Scholarship in India into Global
Scholarship,” International Studies 46(1&2): 129-45.
Martin J. Bayly (2021). Lineages of Indian International Relations: The Indian Council on
World Affairs, the League of Nations, and the Pedagogy of Internationalism, The
International History Review, online first (pp. 1-17), DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2021.1900891.
S. Mallavarapu (2012). ‘Indian Thinking in International Relations’ in B.S. Chimni and
Siddharth Mallavarapu ed. International Relations: Perspectives for the Global South (New
Delhi: Pearson, 2012), pp.22-38.
Unit 2. Theories of IR
a. Introduction to IR Theories
Essential Readings
Stephen M. Walt (1998). “International Relations: One World, Many Theories.” Foreign
Policy, 110: 29–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1149275.
S. Mallavarapu (2009) Development of International Relations Theory in India. International
Studies, 46 (1–2): 165–183.
�वष्णु सतपथी और सु�मत कुमार पाठक (2010) 'अंतरार्ष्ट्र�य संबंध� के उपागम', तपन �बस्वाल
(ए�डटर), अंतरार्ष्ट्र�य सम्बन्ध, मैक�मलन पिब्लशसर् इं�डया �ल�मटे ड (पष्ृ ठ संख्या 1 -39).

वी एन खन्ना (2014) खंड एक: सैद्धां�तक प�रवेश: अंतरार्ष्ट्र�य सम्बन्ध का प�रचय: यथाथर्वाद,
नवयथाथर्वाद, उदारवाद, नवउदारवाद (पष्ृ ठ संख्या 1 -44), वी एन खन्ना, अंतराष्ट्र�य सम्बन्ध,
�वकास पिब्लकेशन.
Additional Readings
Karen A. Mingst, Ivan M. Arreguín-Toft (2019). ‘Approaches to International Relations’ in
Essentials of International Relations (8th edition), Norton: Canada: pp. 3-18.
Toni Erskine (2013). “Normative International Relations Theory”, in Tim Dunne, Milja
Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds.) International Relations: Theories, Discipline and Diversity.
Oxford University Press: UK, 3rd edition. pp. 36-58.
b. Realpolitique (Kautilya)/ Realism/ Neo-Realism
Essential Readings
Shahi, Deepshikha (2019). "Kautilya Reincarnated: Steering Arthaśāstra Toward an Eclectic
Theory of International Relations” in Kautilya and the Non-Western IR Theory, Springer
International Publishing; Palgrave Pivot. pp.95-126.
Jindal, Nirmal (2020). Kautilya’s Realpolitik’ in Nirmal Jindal, Kamal Kumar (eds.).
International Relations: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications, India. Pp.151-170.
T. Dunne, M. Kurki and S. Smith (eds.) (2013). International Relations Theories, Discipline
and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition. (Ch 3: Classical Realism, pp.
59-76 by Richard Ned Lebow; and Ch 4: Structural Realism by John J. Mearsheimer- pp.77-
93).
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Waltz, K.N (1990), ‘Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory’, Journal of International Affairs
Editorial Board, Vol.44, No.1, pp.21-37.
Additional Readings
S. Kalyanaraman (2015). ‘Arthashastra, Diplomatic History and the Study of International
Relations in India’, in P.K. Gautam et. al. (eds.) Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya
and His Vocabulary, Volume 1, Pentagon Press: India, pp.1-4.
Medha Bisht (2015). ‘Revisiting the Arthasastra: Back to Understanding IR’ in Pradeep
Kumar Gautam et. al. (eds.) Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and His Vocabulary,
Volume 2, Pentagon Press: New Delhi, pp. 20-31.
Cynthia Weber (2010). ‘Realism: is international anarchy the permissive cause of war?’, In
International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction, 3rd ed., New York: Routledge, pp.
13-36.
c. Liberalism/ Neo-liberalism
Essential Readings
Bruce Russett (2013). ‘Liberalism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith (eds.)
International Relations: Theories, Discipline and Diversity, 3rd Edition, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 94-113.
Jennifer Sterling-Folker (2013). ‘Neoliberalism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith
(eds.) International Relations: Theories, Discipline and Diversity, 3rd Edition, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 114-131.
Additional Readings
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘Liberalism’ in Introduction to International
Relations, Theories and Approaches, Oxford University Press: New York, pp.107-142.
Jon C. W. Pevehouse and Joshua S. Goldstein (2018). International Relations, 11th Edition,
Pearson: US (Liberal and Social Theories, pp.83-121).
d. Marxism/ Neo-Marxism
Essential Readings
Mark Rupert (2013). ‘Marxism’, in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds.)
International Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
3rd edition. pp.153-170.
Cynthia Weber (2010). ‘Neo-Marxism: Is Empire the New World Order?’, in International
Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction, 3rd edition, New York: Routledge, pp.131-158.
Additional Readings
Stephanie Lawson (2015). Theories of International Relations, Contending Approaches to
World Politics, Polity Press: Cambridge, UK (Chapter 6-Marxism, Critical Theory and World
Systems Theory, pp.121-144).
Andrew Linklater (2005). ‘Marxism’ in Scott Burchill, Andrew Linklater, et al. Theories of
International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, US: pp. 110-137.
e. Feminism
Essential Reading
J. Ann Tickner (2008). ‘Gender in World Politics’. in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.).
The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 262-277.

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J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg (2013). ‘Chapter 11-Feminism’ in Tim Dunne, Milja
Kurki, and Steve Smith (eds.) International Relations Theories, Discipline and Diversity.
Oxford University Press: UK, 3rd edition. pp.205-222.
तपन �बस्वाल (2010) 'अंतरार्ष्ट्र�य संबंध� म� नार�वाद� दृिश्टकोण: जे एन �टकनर ', अंतरार्ष्ट्र�य
सम्बन्ध, मैक�मलन पिब्लशसर् इं�डया �ल�मटे ड, इं�डया। (पष्ृ ठ संख्या 331-342)
Additional Reading
Helen M. Kinsella (2020) ‘Feminism’ in John Baylis, and Steve Smith, The globalisation of
world Politics An introduction to international relations, Oxford University Press, 8th
Edition. pp 145-159.
Chandra T. Mohanty (2003). Feminism without Borders Decolonizing Theory, Practicing
Solidarity, Duke University Press (‘Introduction-Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and
Feminist Commitments’ pp. 1-16).
f. Constructivism
Essential Readings
Michael Barnett. (2020). ‘Chapter 12-Social constructivism’, in John Baylis, and Steve
Smith, The Globalisation of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations,
Oxford University Press, 8th Edition. pp. 192-206.
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen (2019). ‘Social Constructivism’ in Introduction to
International Relations, Theories and Approaches, Oxford University Press: New York, pp.
161-177.
Additional Readings
K. M. Fierke (2013). Constructivism in T. Dunne, M. Kurki, and S. Smith (eds.),
International Relations: Theories Discipline and Diversity, OUP: NY, pp. 187-204.
S. Lawson (2015). Theories of International Relations, Contending Approaches to World
Politics, Polity Press: Cambridge (Ch 7: Social Theories of International Relations, pp.145-
171).
Unit 3. Concepts
a. Power
Essential Readings
David A. Baldwin (2013). “Power and International Relations,” in Handbook of International
Relations, eds. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, Los Angeles, CA:
Sage Publications, pp. 273–274 & p. 280.
M. Barnett and R. Duvall (2005) Power in International Politics. International Organization
59 (1): pp. 39–75.
Additional Readings
H.W. Ohnesorge (2020). ‘Power in International Relations: Understandings and Varieties’, in
Soft Power: The Forces of Attraction in International Relations. Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29922-4_2
Jan-Philipp N.E. Wagner (2014). ‘The Effectiveness of Soft & Hard Power in Contemporary
International Relations’. E-international Relations, May 14. Available at: https://www.e-
ir.info/2014/05/14/the-effectiveness-of-soft-hard-power-in-contemporary-international-
relations/

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b. Sovereignty
Essential Readings
N.C. Behera (2020). ‘State and Sovereignty,’ in A. B. Tickner and K. Smith (eds.),
International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference, London: Routledge:
pp.139-160.
Manish Kumar (2018), ‘Revisiting Sovereignty through ancient Indian Notions of Dharma,’
Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11 (1): 23-37.
Additional Reading
S.D. Krasner (2001). “Sovereignty”, Foreign Policy,122 (Jan. - Feb): pp. 20-29.
A. Osiander (2001). Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth.
International Organization, 55(2): pp.251-287.
c. Empire
Essential Readings
T. Barkawi (2010). Empire and Order in International Relations and Security Studies. Oxford
Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.164
H. Münkler (2007). ‘What Is an Empire?’ (pp.1-18) and ‘Empire, Imperialism and
Hegemony: A Necessary Distinction’ (pp. 19-46) in Empires: The Logic of World
Domination from Ancient Rome to the United States. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Additional Readings
T. Barkawi and M. Laffey (2002). Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International
Relations. Millennium, 31 (1), pp: 109–27.
Yale H. Ferguson and Richard Mansbach, eds (2008). ‘Superpower, Hegemony, Empire’, in
A World of Polities: Essays on Global Politics, London: Routledge, pp. 200–215.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2000) Empire, Cambridge: Harvard University Press
(Chapter 1: ‘Political Constitution of the present’, sub part: ‘World Order'. pp. 3-21).
d. International Order
Essential Readings
K. Smith (2020). ‘Order, Ordering and disorder’ in Tickner and Smith (Eds) IR from Global
South, London: Routledge. pp. 77-96.
K.P. Bajpai and S. Mallavarapu (ed.) (2019). India, the West, and International Order.
Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, ‘Introduction’-pp.1-50.
Additional Readings
R. Baumann, K. Dingwerth (2015). Global governance vs empire: Why world order moves
towards heterarchy and hierarchy. Journal of International Relations and Development 18,
104–128. https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2014.6.
U. Baxi (2003). ‘Operation Enduring Freedom: Towards a New International Law and
Order?’ in A. Anghie, B. Chimni, et. al (eds.) The Third World and International Order Law,
Politics and Globalization, Brill Academic Publishers: the Netherlands. Pp. 31-46.

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Unit 4. Exploring the Future Trajectories
a. Global IR
Essential Readings
A. Acharya (2020) ‘Global International Relations’, in T. Dunne, M. Kurki, and S. Smith
(eds.) International Relations Theories Discipline and Diversity, 4th Ed., Oxford: OUP. pp.
304-321.
F. Anderl and A. Witt (2020) ‘Problematising the Global in Global IR’. Millennium, 49 (1):
32-57.
Additional Readings
Deepshikha Shahi (2019). ‘The Advaitic Theory of International Relations: Reconciling
Dualism and Monism in the Pursuit of the ‘Global’’, in Advaita as a Global International
Relations Theory. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge: pp.109-142.
Giorgio Shani and Navnita Chadha Behera (2021). ‘Provincialising International Relations
Through a Reading of Dharma,’ Review of International Studies. pp. 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021052100053X
b. A Relational Turn?
Essential Readings
Tamara A. Trownsell, A.B. Tickner, A. Querejazu, J. Reddekop, G. Shani, K. Shimizu, N.C.
Behera and A. Arian, ‘Differing about difference: relational IR from around the world’,
International Studies Perspectives, 22 (1): 25-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa008
David L. Blaney, Tamara A. Trownsell (2021) Recrafting International Relations by
Worlding Multiply. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi. pp. 45-62,
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1937147.
Additional Readings
Tamara A. Trownsell, Amaya Querejazu, Giorgio Shani, Navnita Chadha Behera, Jarrad
Reddekop and Arlene B. Tickner Recrafting International Relations through Relationality,”
E-International Relations, January 2019, https://www.e-ir.info/2019/01/08/recrafting-
international-relations-through-relationality/;
Milja Kurki (2021). Relational revolution and relationality in IR: New conversations Review
of International Studies, page 1-16 doi:10.1017/S0260210521000127.

Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination

Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.

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 Category II
B.A. (Prog.) with Political Science as Major discipline

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE (DSC-2A): Indian Government and Politics

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE

COURSE

Course title Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite

& Code Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Practice (if any)
Indian 4 3 1 0 12th Pass NIL
Government
and Politics
MDSC 2A

Learning Objectives

This course aims to familiarize students with constitutional government and nature of politics
in India and the relationship between the two. It focusses on the originary moment of the
Indian Republic through an understanding of the philosophy and the features of the
Constitution while demonstrating how the processes of state formation and nation making
coincided with constitution-making and the interlacing between the two. The course also
introduces students to the institutions of the state, the constitutional rules governing them and
the political trajectory of their evolution. The course then proceeds by way of familiarity with
varied political processes that have dominated the nature of Indian politics including
reflections on the development paradigm followed by the Indian state and a critical
perspective on the character of Indian state itself. While focusing on the constitutional
framework and design laid down for governance, the course delves deeper into the political
processes through which a divergent space for actual politics is carved out, in India.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students would demonstrate:

• Understanding of the Indian Constitution, its basic features and the rights and duties
of the citizens as well as the constitutional obligations of the state
• Knowledge of state institutions in India, the constitutional provisions governing them
and actual their working
• Understanding into the nature of Indian society and its relationship with politics
through the prism of caste, class, gender, religion, etc.
• Knowledge of party system and political parties in India
• Awareness of the development debates in India and its relationship with the social
movements

SYLLABUS OF MDSC-2A

UNIT – I (6 Hours)
Indian Constitution: basic features, debates on Fundamental Rights, Directive
Principles and Federalism
UNIT – II (6 Hours)

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