POLT 842 (01) - Politics of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India

Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2019 - Full Term (01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   7  
CRN: 56498
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India are strategically important states and potential flashpoints of conflict. Nuclear neighbors, India and Pakistan have been in conflict for 70 years while Afghanistan remains internally unstable. The politics of these countries are also intimately involved with each other. The class will focus both on the internal politics of these states and their foreign relations with each other and the United States. Students will develop expertise in a crucial world region.
Instructors: STAFF

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/22/2019 5/6/2019 T 3:10pm - 6:00pm HORT 327

Booklist

Barfield, Thomas J. Afghanistan a Cultural and Political History. Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010; Cohen, Stephen P. author. Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2013; Cohen, Stephen P. The Idea of Pakistan. 2nd edition. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2006; Gall, Carlotta. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014. Reprint edition. Boston: Mariner Books, 2015; Riedel, Bruce. What We Won: America’s Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979–89. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2014.