International Relations

Percentag
Sr. No. Core Areas
e
1. Introduction to International Relations 5%
2. Geo-Political Structure of the World 5%
3. Globalization, Global Issues and International Relations 8%
4. International Relations Since 1945 10%
5. Approaches to International Relations 8%
6. Theories of International Relations 7%
7. International Law & Law of Armed Conflict 13%
8. International and Regional Organizations 5%
9. Foreign Policy Analysis 5%
10. Research Methods in International Relations 4%
11. International Economic Relations 5%
12. Peace & Conflict Resolution: Theories and Practice 5%
13. Human rights in International Relations 5%
14. International Politics of Environment 5%
15. Introduction to Strategic Studies 5%
16. Diplomacy 5%
Total 100%
 International Relations (Detailed)
Sr. Percentag
Core Area
No. e

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

1.1 Meaning, Definition and Scope of International

Relations___________________________________________1
%

1.2 Nature, Evolution and Significance of

International Relations, concepts and ideas
including multi-polarity, bi-polarity, deterrence,
1. hard soft and smart power and peaceful 5%
coexistence______________________________1%

1.3 Nation State: Sovereignty and

Security_______________1%

1.4 Power and Balance of

Power________________________1%

1.5 State and Non-state

Actors_________________________1%
2. 5%
GEO-POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD:

2.1 Characteristics of international political

system, developed and developing countries,
north south divide, inclusion of new political
actors, such as IOs, NGOs, SCOs
&NSAs_______________________________________1%

2.2 Political geography, traditional boundaries,

modern boundaries, problems of
boundaries_________________1%

2.3 Geography of Resources, water resources, oil

and gas, food
resources______________________________________1%

2.4 Power Analysis and Political Geography ,

 traditional empires, Colonial empires, offshore
empire___________1%

2.5 Geo-Economics, theories, economics and

politics, common economic
spaces_________________________1%
 GLOBALIZATION, GLOBAL ISSUES AND
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

3.1 Globalization: Definition, Nature, Conceptual

development and its
significance___________________1%

3.2Globalization in the historical

perspective____________1%

3.3 Dimensions and impact of globalization,

political, economic, cultural, psychological &
technological___1%

3. 3.4 Globalization and the underdeveloped 8%

countries_____1%

3.5 Globalization and the developed countries

___________1%

3.6 Collective Security and

globalization_________________1%

3.7 Globalization: Problems and

prospects_______________1%

3.8 Terrorism, climate and environmental changes,

energy security, maritime security, population
and
migration___________________________________________1
%
4. 10%
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE 1945:

4.1 Impact of World War II on the structure of

World Politics, emergence of Super Powers,
Bipolarity, East-West confrontation, Cold
War_____________________________2%

4.2Sino-Soviet Split, Sino-American

Rapprochement, Détente: East-West
 Cooperation: Peaceful Co-existence, fall of
Communism & Disintegration of the Soviet
Union________________________________________2%

4.3 Post - Cold War Era/New World Order, United

Nation in the Unipolar World, emerging
Regionalism and Economic organizations i.e. EU,
ECO, ASIAN, NAFTA, AFTA &
APEC_______________________________________________2
%

4.4 Rise of Asia Pacific Region & China as a Major

Power______________________________________________1
%

4.5 Selected contemporary global

Issues________________1%

APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

5.1 Normative Approaches: evolutionary world

politics, legal / institutionalist, cosmopolitanism,
constructivism, feminism, critical social
approach, imperialist
5. approach___________________________________________4 8%
%

5.2 Empirical Approaches: functionalism,

behavioralism, structuralism, positivism,
rationalism, modernity and post
Modernity___________________________________________
4%
 THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

6.1 Realism & neo-

Realism_______________________________1%

6.2 Liberalism & liberal

Debate___________________________1%

6.3 Marxist Theories & neo-

Marxism______________________1%
6. 7%
6.4 Feminist
Theory______________________________________1%

6.5 Post-
Modernism_____________________________________1%

6.6 Historical
Sociology__________________________________1%

6.7 Social
Constructivism________________________________1%
7. 13 %
INTERNATIONAL LAW & LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT:

7.1 Definition, Nature, and Scope of International

Law; Binding Nature of International
Law___________________1%

7.2 Origin and development of International Law;

theories of International Law; relationship
between municipal and International
Law____________________________________2%

7.3 Sources of International

Law_________________________1%

7.4 Subjects of International Law: States,

individual and non-State
entities________________________________________1%

7.5 Recognition of State and government, Dejure

and Defacto recognition, legal effects of
Recognition, Recognition of insurgency and
belligerency and its
 impacts_____________________________________________2
%

7.6 State Sovereignty: Acquisition of territorial

sovereignty_________________________________________
1%

7.7 International Humanitarian Law& law of Armed

Conflict_____________________________________________1
%

7.8 Law of Treaties: Kinds nomenclature

formation, invalidation andtermination of
treaties_______________1%

7.9 International Disputes: Peaceful and coercive

means of settlement of international
disputes___________________2%

7.10 Laws of the sea, continental shelf, exclusive

economic zones, and territorial
waters_________________________1%
8. 5%
INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
8.1 Origin and Development of International
Organizations, Definitions and Historical
Perspective_________________1%

8.2 Multilateralism in the 20th century: Challenges

of Global governance, & theoretical Perspectives
of International
Organizations_______________________________________
1%

8.3 The United Nations System & its

bodies________________1%

8.4 Status of UN in Post 9/11 Scenario&UN Reforms

and
expansion__________________________________________1
%

8.4 Other organizations such as EU. AU, ASEAN,

OIC, SCO, SAARC,
 ECO________________________________________1%

FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS:

9.1 Definition Principles and objectives of Foreign

Policy__1%

9.2 Importance of Foreign Policy in International

Relations____________________________________________
1%
9. 5%
9.3 Determinants of Foreign
Policy_______________________1%

9.4 Internal and external inputs/pressures and

limitations in the formulation of Foreign
Policy_____________________1%

9.5 Approaches & common patterns to the study of

Foreign Policy
formulation___________________________________1%

RESEARCH METHODS IN INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS:

10.1 Theories specifically applicable to Research

10. Methodology in International 4%
relations_______________2%

10.2Application of tools in International relations

research___________________________________________2
%
11. 5%
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS:

11.1 Field of International Political Economy,

definition &
evolution___________________________________________
1%

11.2 Theories of International Political

Economy___________2%

11.3 Politics of & Role and Impact of Trade, Finance

 & Investment
Institutions______________________________2%

PEACE & CONFLICT RESOLUTION: THEORIES AND

PRACTICE:

12.1 Defining Conflict and its Sources (level of

analysis
approach)_________________________________________1
%

12.2 Basics of Conflict

Resolution_________________________1%

12. 12.3 Techniques of Conflict 5%

Resolution____________________1%

12.4Approaches to Conflict Mitigation, conflict

Prevention and Preemption, Confidence
Building Measures, Preventive Diplomacy,
conflict management, & conflict
transformation_____________________________________
_1%

12.5 Theories of Peace, positive, negative peace,

democratic peace theory, & dividends of
peace____1%
 HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

13.1 Conceptual Frame work of Human

Rights____________1%

13.2 Human Rights and Cultural Relativism: What

Rights are? Hohfield's Concept, Human Rights
as Minimum Standard, the Sources
andsignificance of Social Rights, Moral
13. Diversity, Religion and Ideology_______________2% 5%

13.3 Theories of Human Rights: Theory of Natural

Rights, Historical Theory of Rights, Legal
Theory of Rights, Moral and Legal
Rights____________________________________1%

13.4 The World Institutions and Human Rights: The

League of Nations and United Nations,
International Human Rights
Convention________________________________________2
%

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENT:

14.1Introduction to the environmental politics &

issues____1%

14.2 Sustainability and Environmental

Ideology___________1%

14. 14.3 The International Politics of the 5%

Environment__________1%

14.4 Environmental Problems as Security

Issues___________1%

14.5 The Development and Implementation of

Environmental
Regimes___________________________________________1
%
 INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC STUDIES:

15.1 Definition, Importance, Scope and basic

assumptions of Strategic
Studies_________________________________1%

15.2 Evolution and development of strategic

thought & Major
Thinkers___________________________________________
15. 1% 5%

15.3 Evolution and Development of Modern

Warfare____1%

15.4 Contemporary Issues and Emerging Trends in

Strategic
Studies____________________________________________1
%

15.5 Theories of arms control &

disarmament___________1%

DIPLOMACY:

16.1Definition, Nature and Importance of

Diplomacy____ 2%

16.2 The linkage between Foreign Policy and

Diplomacy__1%

16. 16.3 Types of Diplomacy: Old versus New 5%

Diplomacy; Open versus Secret, Formal versus
Informal, Unilateral, Bilateral, and
Multilateral____________________________1%

16.4 Kinds of Diplomacy: Summit Diplomacy,

Conference Diplomacy, Preventive Diplomacy,
Quiet/Silent Diplomacy, GunboatDiplomacy,
multi-track Diplomacy, Informal Channels of
Diplomacy: Media and NGOs__1%
Total 100%