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


Thurs Oct 31 Nuclear and Missile Issues
readings:
· Textbook pg 118-126
· Against Nuclear Apartheid Jaswant Singh


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

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

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