डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

1. Does the course connect to, build on or overlap with any other courses offered in AUD?

The course is intended as one of the generic elective courses for students of the four year BA programmes at AUD. The course will complement other interdisciplinary courses in the 4 year programme structure, and also provide a perspective on the core and discipline-centred courses in political science.

2. Specific requirements on the part of students who can be admitted to this course:

(Pre requisites; prior knowledge level; any others – please specify) No requirement

3. No. of students to be admitted (with justification if lower than usual cohort size is proposed):

As per the AUD norms.

4. Course scheduling: (summer/winter course; semester-long course; half-semester course; workshop mode; seminar mode; any other – please specify)

Semester-long course

5. Proposed date of launch:

Monsoon 2022

UNIT I Introduction to Globalisation

The first unit will explore the meaning of globalization through the well-established literature on this phenomenon. The different definitions of globalization, their periodization and the dimensions of globalization in modernity will be discussed. In the Indian context, debates on globalization in the political context of structural adjustment, privatization and liberalization will also be covered.

Required Readings:

• • • Held, D., & McGrew, A. (Eds.). The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate. (2nd edition), Cambridge: Polity Press. (Part I: Understanding Globalization, pp. 51-119).
    • Robertson, R., & White, K. E. (2007). What Is Globalization? In Ritzer, G. (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 54- 66
    • Mitra, D., & Ranjan, P. (2012). The Globalization Debate and India. In Ghate,

C. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 785-809.

• • • Scholte. J.A. (2005). Globalisation: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Suggested Readings:

• • • Giddens, A. (1990). The Consequences of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Part II, pp. 55-78).
    • Robinson, W. I. (2007). Theories of Globalization. In Ritzer, G. (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 125-143.

UNIT II Global Economic Structures and Processes

This unit will introduce students to international financial institutions (World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization) and to the critical questions of power and inequality within these. It will also delineate the role of the third world and the newly emerging powers in revisioning this ‘Bretton Woods’ framework.

Required Readings:

• • • Williams, M. (1994). The IMF and the Third World. International Economic Organisations and the Third World. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 51- 111.
    • Boughton, James M (2009). “A New Bretton Woods?”, Finance and Development, March 2009, https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2009/03/pdf/ boughton.pdf
    • Mohan, Rakesh and Muneesh Kapur (2015), “Emerging Powers and the Global Governance: Whither the IMF?”. IMF Working Paper No. WP/15/219, http:// www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2015/wp15219.pdf
    • Rao, MB and Manjula Guru. (2001). WTO and International Trade New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
    • Rodrik, D. (2011). Bretton Woods, GATT, and the WTO: Trade in a Politicized World. The Globalization Paradox. New York: Norton, pp. 67-88.

Suggested Readings

• • • Aglietta, M. (2004). The International Monetary Fund: Past and Future. In Desai M., & Said, Y. (Eds.) Global Governance and Financial Crises. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 43-69.
    • Hopewell, Kristen. (2016). Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neo-liberal Project? California: Stanford University Press.

UNIT III Globalization and Nation-State

Globalization has a complicated relationship with the nation-state. While early literature on globalization and the nation-state posited an inverse relationship between the two, latter works argued that only some parts of the state weaken with the strengthening of globalization; indeed globalization can also bolster some forms of nationalism; and/or strengthen the state. These complex phenomena have also affected the traditional westphalian order; the unit will introduce students to these major debates on nation-states and sovereignty in the globalizing world.

Required Readings:

• Jha, P.S (2006) “Growing Obseolescence of the Nation-State” in Prem Shankar Jha

Twilight of the Nation-State” London, Pluto Press. pp. 189-207.

• Chaturvedi, Inakshi. (n.d), “Globalisation and Its Impact on State Sovereignty”. International Political Science Association. http://paperroom.ipsa.org/papers/ paper_249.pdf.
• Göksel, Nilüfer Karacasulu. (2012), “Globalisation and the State” http:// sam.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1.-NiluferKaracasuluGoksel.pdf.
• Heywood, Andrew. (2015), Global Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York

Suggested Readings:

• Hudson, Alan. (1998), “Beyond the Borders: Globalisation, Sovereignty and Extra- Territoriality”, Geopolitics. Vol. 3, No. 1. http://alanhudson.info/wp- content/uploads/2013/11/borders.pdf.
• Yadav. Inder Sekhar. ‘Globalisation, State Sovereignty and Civil Society’. University of Delhi. n.d. https://sol.du.ac.in/mod/book/view.php?id=1245 &chapterid=911.

UNIT IV Globalization, Culture and Technology

The impact of globalization on cultural questions have been raised by political scientists, anthropologists and sociologists since the early 1990s at least. Globalisation has also been understood primarily as a technological phenomenon, even while its other definitions are still debated. This unit will address the most prominent of the cultural and technological aspects of globalization.

Required Readings:

• Tomlinson, J. (2007). Cultural Globalization. In Ritzer, G. (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 352-366.
• Appadurai, A. (2005). Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-23, 27-47.

• “Effects of technological Developments on Globalisation Process”, http:// mediaif.emu.edu.tr/pages/atabek/GCS7.html
• Greig, J. Michael (2002), The End of Geography?: Globalisation, Communications, and Culture in the International System, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 46, No. 2, April, 225-243.
• Wang, Yi (2007), Globalisation Enhances Cultural Identity, Intercultural Communication Studies, XVI, 83-86.
• Perry, B., & Olsson, P. (2009). Cyberhate: The Globalization of Hate, Information and Communications Technology Law, 18(2), pp. 185-199.

Suggested Readings:

• Steger, Manfred B. (2017), Globalisation: A very short Introduction, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Sparks, C. (2007). Development, Globalization and the Mass Media. New Delhi: Sage.

pp. 126-148.

• Pieterse, Jan. (1995), Globalisation as hybridization, in Global modernities (ed.)

UNIT V Anti-Globalization, NGOs and Social Movements

It is widely recognized that globalization has generated its own discontents. These protests and resistances against globalization have spotlighted its tendencies to deepening inequality, intensifying humanitarian crises, and speeding up ecological degradation. The coalescing of these concerns have typically taken the form of peasant Movements, the environmental movement and social movements against human displacement. This unit will lay out all these aspects for the students’ own examination and reflection.

Required Readings:

• Kean. J. (2003). Global Civil Society?, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. – ‘Resisting Globalisation’, Access on 19th November, 2018, https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/resistingglobalisation.pdf

• Nayyar, D. (2015). Globalization and Democracy. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 35 (3), pp. 388-402.
• Khagram, Sanjeev, James Riker, and Kathryn Sikkink (2002). “From Santiago to Seattle”: Transnational advocacy groups restructuring world politics. In Restructuring world poltics, transnational social movements, networks, and norms, eds. S. Khagram, J. Riker and K. Sikkink. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Mohammed Nuruzzaman (2009), Globalisation and Resistance Movements in the Periphery: An Alternative Theoretical Approach, Access on 10th October, 2018, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250147287_Globalisation_and_ Resistance_Movements_in_the_Periphery_An_Alternative_Theoretical_Approach

Suggested Readings:

• Lynch, C. (1998). Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 23(2), pp. 149-173.
• Kumar Chanchal, Lunghthuiyang Riamei and Sanju Gupta (2017). Understanding Global Politics, New Delhi: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd.

2. Pedagogy:
   1. Instructional design

The course will be a combination of lectures and tutorials .

1. 2. Special needs (facilities, requirements in terms of software, studio, lab, clinic, library, classroom/others instructional space; any other – please specify)

None

1. 3. Expertise in AUD faculty or outside

The faculty team teaching the course has training in the field of History and Architecture.

1. 4. Linkages with external agencies (e.g., with field-based organizations, hospital; any others) None.

Assessment structure (modes and frequency of assessments) The course will have three types of assessment situations.

• Students will be assessed in continuous assessment mode on the basis of their engagement with the educational resources. This involves in-class quizzes and short response notes (combined: 30%)