I have completed BA Degree with Political Science stream recently. Now I want to do MA Degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) with same discipline. I am searching for syllabus to see it before admission. So please provide detailed syllabus of MA Political Science Course of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)?

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Jawaharlal Nehru University MA Political Science Course Syllabus
Paper-I Political Thought
Paper-II Indian Government and Politics
Paper-III Theories and Practice of International Relations
Paper-IV Major Ideas and Issues in Public Administration
Paper-V Research Methodology

Paper-I Political Thought
UNIT I Plato, Aristotle.
UNIT II Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau.
UNIT III Machiavelli, Hegal, Marx.
UNIT IV Bentham, J.S. Mill, T.H. Green.
UNIT V Kautilaya, Gandhi, Aurbindo, M.N. Roy.

Paper-II Indian Government and Politics
Unit-I Constitutional development and making of Indian Constitution; Background
of the Constituent Assembly : Composition and Working; Ideological
contents : Preamble, fundamental rights, duties and directive principles;
Constitution as an instrument of socio-economic change; Constitutional
amendments.

Unit-II Union Government : President, Prime Minister, Council of Ministers,
Parliament; State Government: Governor, Chief Minister, State Legislatures;
Local Government : Rural and Urban.

Unit-III Judiciary : Supreme Court and the Constitutional Process, High Courts,
Judicial Review, Judicial Activism including Public Interest litigation cases,
Judicial Reforms. Indian Federalism : Theory and Practice, Centre-State
Relations, Demands for State Autonomy and Separatist Movements,
Interaction between National Politics and State Politics and Emerging Trends
in Indian Federal set up.

Unit-IV Party System in India, National and Regional Parties, Pressure Groups, Public
Opinion, Media, Peasant Movements. Elections, Electoral Behaviour, Election
Commission and Electoral Reforms. Relevance and need for Constitutional
Review and Recommendations of National Commission on Constitutional
Review, Coaliation Politics : Bases, Nature and Impact on Indian Polity.

Unit-V Impact of Caste, Religion, Regionalism, Language and Class : Dalit and
Gender Issues; Problem of Human Development; Problems of Nation
Building and Integration. Critical Assessment : Success and Failures.
Emerging Trends in Indian Polity

UNIT III Machiavelli, Hegal, Marx.
Unit-I Nature, Scope and Development of International Relations; Theories of
International Relations-Idealist, Realist, Systems, Marxist, Game
Communication, Decision-Making, World System and Critical Theories.

Unit-II Concept of National Power- Elements and limitations; Struggle for Power;
Management of Power- Balance of Power, Collective Security and
Deterrence; Role of National Interest and Ideology in International Relations.

Unit-III Cold War, End of Cold War and Post-Cold War; Non-alignment-Meaning
Bases, Movement and Relevance.

Unit-IV Disarmament and Arms Control since World War-II - Conventional and
Nuclear; Regional Organizations with Special Reference to SAARC, ASEAN,
OPEC, EU.

Unit-V Politics of Globalization-Neo-Colonialism and Dependency, World Bank,
WTO, IMF; Emerging Issues - NIEO, Gender Issues, Politics of Environment
and Terrorism.

Jawaharlal Nehru University MA Political Science Course Syllabus

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