readings AND
SYLLABUS
Tuesday August 20 Introduction to Class, Instructor, South Asia
Thursday August 22 Overview of South Asia
readings:
· Textbook pg 3-34
Tuesday August 27 International Concerns re South Asian
Development
readings:
· Textbook pg 86-90, 133-135, 146-148, 184-186
Thurs August 29 & Tues Sept 3 India Govt and Politics
I. readings:
· Textbook India Country Report & pg 36-39
· Making the State Behave and Well
A. Varshney
· Modernizing Tradition
in India
Thurs Sept 5 India Economy
readings:
· Textbook pg 90-97, 135-146
· India on Auto Pilot Far
Eastern Economic Review
· Indian
Economic Reforms A. Srivastava
Tues Sept 10 & Thurs Sept 12 Pakistan Govt and Politics
readings:
· Textbook Pakistan Country Report & pg 72—77
· Pakistan: A Political
History A. Jalal
· Pakistan’s Jihad
Culture J. Stern
· Islamic Parties
in Pakistan
Tues Sept 17 Pakistan Economy
readings:
· Failing State S.
Cohen (pdf)
· General Discontent
The Economist
· On Borrowed Time Far
Eastern Economic Review
Thursday Sept 19 EXAM 1
Tues Sept 24 Bangladesh Govt and Politics
readings:
· Textbook Bangladesh Country Report & pg 58-60
· Pipe Dreams
Thurs Sept 26 Bangladesh Economy
readings:
· Textbook pg 186-189
· Musharraf Comes
Calling
Tues Oct 1 Sri Lanka Govt and Politics
readings:
· Textbook Sri Lanka Country Report & pg 79-81
· Conflict and
Community in Sri Lanka
Thurs Oct 3 Sri Lanka Economy
readings:
· The Peace Dividend
Tues Oct 8 & Thurs Oct 10 Regional Economic Cooperation
readings:
· SAARC and sub-regional cooperation
Tuesday Oct 15 EXAM 2
Thurs Oct 17 International Concerns re South Asian Security
readings:
· Textbook pg 86-90, 126-133, 195-198,
· Global Trends 2015
Tues Oct 22 Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Security
readings:
· Textbook pg 198-203
· Sri Lanka: Fragile
Hopes T. Schaeffer
Thurs Oct 24 & Tues Oct 29 Kashmir
readings:
· Textbook pg 113-118
· Fighting
over Identity S. Tripathi
· Pressures on Pakistan
A. Lieven
· Mideast Pattern Now
in Kashmir
. Kashmir Growth Industry
. Kashmir: Need to Square the Circle
Thurs Oct 31 Nuclear and Missile Issues
readings:
· Textbook pg 118-126
· Against Nuclear
Apartheid Jaswant Singh
. Pak Ex-Nuclear Scientists in Touch w/ Al
Q
. Pak-North
Korea Link
Tues Nov 5 &Thurs Nov 7 internal security and terrorism
readings:
· India’s Bottom
Line Selig Harrison
· Military should
not be meddling in politics H. Haqquani
. Pakistan's Slide Into Misery Sumit
Ganguly
Tues Nov 12 China’s Role in South Asia
readings:
· South Asia in China’s
Foreign Relations J. M. Malik (pdf)
· Pakistan’s
Nuclear and Missile Program G. Parthasarthy
Thurs Nov 14 Russia’s Role in South Asia
readings:
· South Asia in
Russian Strategic Calculus A. Srivastava
· Russia-India-China: A New
Triangle
. Russian Perspectives on
Reducing Nuclear Dangers in SA Gahlaut
Tues Nov 19 US Role in South Asia
readings:
· Pakistan’s
Future and US Policy Options (pdf)
· Changing
Perceptions of India
· CSIS Rising
India Report
Thurs Nov 21 Impact of US War on Terror in South Asia
readings:
· What
Americans are doing to Pakistan
· School By the Book
Tuesday Nov 26 Solving Arms Control Problems
RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN CLASS (attendance mandatory)
readings:
· Do Not
Americanize Asian Nuclear Forces T.W. Graham
· Nuclear Restraint
and Risk Reduction in South Asia P.R. Chari
· Reducing Nuclear
Dangers C. U. Bhaskar
Thursday Nov 28 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Tues Dec 3 Solving Nonproliferation Problems
readings:
· Perils of Proliferation
Scott Sagan (pdf)
· The Weakest Link
Thursday Dec 5 Future of South Asia
LAST DAY OF CLASS (attendance mandatory)
Friday December 13 FINAL EXAM from 3:30 - 6:30 pm