International Politics Mid-Term Review
- What is the two nations theory?
Discuss the dilemma of problems phased by the Muslims league-leading to the partition of India’s sub-continent.What is the multi-dimensional insecurity?Define weak states. Discuss various weak states.
- How do weak states create multi-dimensional security challenges?
- Brief discuss how weak states shape the pattern of conflict in South Asia (contemporary)
- What shapes (factors) the capacity of the state to contain domestic conflict?
- Discuss how the history of colonial practices affects the state and nation building of South Asia.
- What is the state-to-nation imbalance? Discuss how this imbalance explains regional war/conflict in South Asia.
- What is the “hardware” of state building? What is this “software” of nation building? (Chapter 4)
- What is “Hindutva”? Discuss the extent to which the philosophy of “Hindutva” shape India’s domestic policy and foreign policy
- Discuss the structural determinacy India’s security challenges
- Provide brief overview of changes in India’s foreign policies
- What is “The Garrison State”? How has the Garrison State developed in Pakistan?
- Discuss some of the major changes in Pakistan’s foreign policies since 1947
- Was ethnic nationalism the key source of civil war in Sri Lanka
- Why negotiation fail to get achieve a peaceful settlement of the Sri Lanka Civil War
- Discuss how poverty, geography, and other social economic conditions effect in other insurgencies in Nepal.
