Zillur R. Khan, Ph.D. Rosebush Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Adjunct Professor, Rollins College [email protected]; [email protected] [email protected] www.bangladesh-foundation.org www.rc37.ipsa.org Politics of South Asia INAF 386 Summer I: 2013 MW: 1600-1920 Class Room: CSS Rm. No.: 121 Course Objectives: This course presents a comparative analysis of the political systems of South Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka (and Burma as a former colony of British India). Topics include: ancient civilization; colonialism and independence; impact of religions on politics; effects of US-Russian-Chinese competition for influence; ramifications of US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Gandhi's “truth force” of non- violence; tribalism, caste system and endemic poverty: challenges to stability and national integration; nuclear policies and the war on terrorism. Class time will be devoted to Instructor-Students interactions, involving chapters/book reports, reports on South Asian religions and their impact on politics, discussions on how to do research papers and participate in a simulation game. Students are expected to keep up with recent news from South Asia and go through reports and analyses of South Asian affairs covered in The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, and Asian Survey, most of which are available at the Olin library. Books under recommended and further readings are meant to expose the students to a selected bibliography, and as well give them choices of chapter reports from recommended books. They could be helpful for term papers and preparation for simulation games. Course requirements: • A research paper: (3000 words) with footnotes and bibliography is due on June 19. • Three chapter reports from either required or recommended texts covering 2-3 pages, at least one from each text, to be presented during the 2nd Hr. of every class meeting. • One report on a Religion and its impact on the politics of South Asia. • Two tests: June 5 and June 26. 1 • A simulation game: June 19. • Student class attendance and participation in discussions. Important: Missing a class meeting without proper justification will cost 2% of the total grade. Grade Weights: • The research paper will carry 30% of the grade. • Reports on three chapters from your required or recommended texts (at least one from each) will carry 10% of total grade. • A report on a major religion and its impact on South Asian Politics will weigh 10% of total grade. • A mid-term and final test will each carry 15% of total grade. • Student participation in class discussions and simulation role-playing exercises will comprise the rest, i.e., 20% of final grade. Important Information • A research paper of around 3000 words is due on June 19. • Test 1 will be held on June 5. • Test 2 on June 26. • In order to avoid plagiarism borrowed narratives must be cited and put under quotation signs. • Each Chapter Report should be around 300 words for each of three chapters from your required or recommended texts. • 1000 words for a report on a religion and its impact on South Asian Politics. • Students are required to present their reports in class. Important: A tentative chapter presentation schedule must be set up during the two class meetings of the first week, that is, May 20 and May 22. • Students are required to discuss their preferred research topics and select their roles in the Simulation Game during the second week, that is, May 27 and May 29, and submit detailed outlines of their research papers at the first meeting of the third week, i.e., June 3. • June 19 is set for student role-playing simulation exercises in class for which students need to do country research in order to play the role of a representative of a SAARC country at a mock conflict resolution Emergency Summit. A preparation guideline will be provided during the second class meeting of the first week, i.e., May 22. • By June 3 students are to choose their roles in the simulation game, representing one of the eight SAARC countries, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, plus Burma/Myanmar as a former British Indian colony, and America and China as Observers. • The second hour of every class meeting from May 22 will be devoted to the presentation of reports on selected chapters from required or recommended texts, and the impact of religions on South Asian Politics. 2 Students are encouraged to engage in Q&A sessions about their proposed research papers and role playing in the Simulation Game. Grading System: A= 96-100 (Analytical, comparative, verifiable and well organized) A- = 90-95 (Analytical, verifiable and fairly organized) B+=85-89 (Good narrative, fairly analytical and organized) B =80-84 (Descriptive and fairly organized) B-= 75-79 (Descriptive and somewhat organized) C =68-74(Descriptive and barely organized) D=61-67(Descriptive and unorganized) F= 60 and below Academic Honor Code Membership in the student body of Rollins College carries with it an obligation, and requires a commitment, to act with honor in all things. Because academic integrity is fundamental to the pursuit of knowledge and truth and is the heart of the academic life of Rollins College, it is the responsibility of all members of the College community to practice it and to report apparent violations. The following pledge is a binding commitment by the students of Rollins College: The development of the virtues of Honor and Integrity are integral to a Rollins College education and to membership in the Rollins College community. Therefore, I, a student of Rollins College, pledge to show my commitment to these virtues by abstaining from any lying, cheating, or plagiarism in my academic endeavors and by behaving responsibly, respectfully and honorably in my social life and in my relationships with others. This pledge is reinforced every time a student submits work for academic credit as his/her own. Students shall add to all papers, quizzes, tests, lab reports, etc., the following handwritten abbreviated pledge followed by their signature: “On my honor, I have not given, nor received, nor witnessed any unauthorized assistance on this work.” Material submitted electronically should contain the pledge; submission implies signing the pledge. Required texts: Davin T. Hagerty, (Ed.). South Asia in World Politics. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2005. ISBN 0-7425-2586-4. Zillur R. Khan and Saad Andaleeb, (Eds.). 2011. Democracy in Bangladesh: Political Dimensions of National Development. Dhaka: University Press Ltd. ISBN 978 984 506 022 6 USD 25.00 Zillur R. Khan and Meghna Guhathakurta, (Eds.). 2012. Regional Cooperation and Globalization: Bangladesh, South Asia and Beyond. Dhaka: University Press Ltd. ISBN 978 984 506 041 7 USD 20.00 Recommended Readings: Armstrong, Karen. 2001. The Battle for GOD. New York, NY: Random House Inc. Abbas, Hassan. 2005. Pakistan's Drift into Extremism. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2005. 3 Bhutto, Benazir. 2008. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West. HarperCollins Publishers. Cohen, Stephen P. 2001. India: Emerging Power. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. Ganguly, Sumit. 2001. Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. New York: Oxford University Press. Jalal, Aysha. 2008. Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Kaplan, Robert D. 2010. MONSOON. New York, NY: Random House. ______________. 2012. The Revenge of Geography. New York, NY: Random House. Khan, Zillur R. 1996. The Third World Charismat: Sheikh Mujib and the Struggle for Freedom. Dhaka: University Press Ltd, ISBN 984 05 1353 2. ____________. 2013. “Conditions for a ‘Third Force’ in the Prevailing Political Reality of Bangladesh”, Journal of Bangladesh Studies. Vol. 14 No. 2 ____________. 2003. “Civil-Military Relations and Nuclearization of India and Pakistan”, World Affairs, Vol. 166, No. 1, Summer 2003. Kothari, Smitu and Zia Mian, 2001. Out of the Nuclear Shadow. London: Zed Books. Rashid, Ahmed. 2009. DESCENT into CHAOS. New York: Penguin Books. D. R. SarDesai and Raju G. C. Thomas, (eds.). 2002. Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave. Steinberg, David I. 2010. BURMA/MYANMAR: What Everyone Needs To Know. New York: Oxford University Press. Zehner, R. C. (Ed.). 1997. Encyclopedia of World’s Religions. New York: Barnes and Noble. Further Readings: Ahmed, R. 2001. Religion, Identity and Politics. Washington, D.C.: International Academic Publishers Lt. Ahmed, S. and Cartwright, D. 1998. Pakistan and the Bomb. University of Notre Dame Press. Allison, G.T. 2004. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Bose, S. 2003. KASHMIR: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Chengappa, B.M. 2004. Pakistan, Islamisation, Army and Foreign Policy. New Delhi: A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. Chari, P.R. 1996. Nuclear Non-Proliferation in India and Pakistan: South Asian Perspectives. Dhaka: The University Press Ltd. Chopra, P. et.al. (Eds.). Future of South Asia. Dhaka: The University Press Ltd. Cohen, S. P. 1971. The Indian Army. Berkeley: University of California Press. Cartwright, D. and Mattoo, A. 1996. India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options. University of Notre Dame Press. 4 Esposito, J.L. 2002. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press. ___________. 2007. Who Speaks for Islam? New York: Gallup Press. Ferguson, N. 2007. The War of the World. New York: Penguin Books. Frantz, D. & Collins, C. 2007. The Nuclear Jihadist. New York: Hachette Book Group USA Inc. Friedman, T.L. 2005. The World Is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Gandhi, Rajmohan. 1986. Eight Lives. State University of New York, Albany. th Garver, J. W. 2001.