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By - Mr Alwin DSouza
The course aims at equipping the learners with the basics of International Relations so as to understand the global undercurrents. This basic knowledge will enable the learners, to understand the concepts and acquire skills to apply them to the power dynamics of various states. The nature of national interests, the decision-making process and the way the relations between nations are negotiated and conducted will be enunciated.
The Course will truly enable the learners to know the global character of the World, which stands politically organized in nearly 200 nation states. The learners will be equipped with the ability to understand the relationship between domestic affairs and foreign affairs and more so the pragmatic situation of their lives in the present World society.
The First Lecture of this Certificate Course will concentrate on Introduction, Meaning and Development of International Relations.
The second Lecture will concentrate on Significance of International Relations and the difference between International Relations and International Politics
For Further reading: Nuclear TimeLine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk 'A Beautiful Mind' movie of Josh Nash Life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71boVsE26I
Suggested Readings (the same can be downloaded from the attachment given below): Eisenhardt, K., & Zbaracki, M. (1992). Strategic Decision Making. Strategic Management Journal,13, 17-37. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from jstor.org/stable/2486364 Faber, J. (1990). On Bounded Rationality and the Framing of Decisions in International Relations: Towards a Dynamic Network Model of World Politics. Journal of Peace Research,27(3), 307-319. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from jstor.org/stable/423473 Giles, K. (2019). (Rep.). Command Decision: Ethical Leadership in the Information Environment, .Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. doi:10.2307/resrep20088. Hermann, M., & Hagan, J. (1998). International Decision Making: Leadership Matters. Foreign Policy,(110), 124-137. doi:10.2307/1149281. Welch, D. (1992). The Politics and Psychology of Restraint: Israeli Decision-Making in the Gulf War. International Journal,47(2), 328-369. doi:10.2307/40202763
National Interest and Foreign Policy: Part 1 of National Interest and Foreign Policy explains the meaning of national interest, and establishes the interconnections between both the themes of international relations.
Part 2 of National Interest and Foreign Policy explains the classified interests and the means to achieve national interest.
Part one of the second theme of Unit 2 will deal with: What is policy? & with the differences between Foreign Policy and Domestic Policy.
Part two of the second theme of Unit 2 will deal briefly with influences on foreign policy.
Authorities involved in formulation of foreign policy. Suggested Reading: The Making of India's Foreign Policy by J. Bandyopadhyaya, Allied Publishers (latest edition)
Explains what are regional groupings along with a brief analysis on India's participation in SAARC in part one of the lecture
Lecture 3 continues from Lecture 2 wherein India is discussed within regional groupings of BIMSTEC and BRICS. The lecture continues from the previous as it was too long to upload. The last few sentences have been lost as it was trimmed. So the below lines as typed to end the lecture from where it ends. "...example of no regional groupings ends in failure would be SAARC. Despite the composite dialogue being stalled between India and Pakistan and hence the weakening of SAARC, it does not means the organization would come to an end. It depends on how the member states make optimal or rational choices to realize their national interests through such groupings
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