LUMS Summer 2017 Security Issues in South Asia

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1 CONTACT INFORMATION Instructor: Dr. S. M. Ali Office: Office hours: LUMS Summer 2017 Security Issues in South Asia COURSE BASICS AND DISTRIBUTION Credit hours: 4 Lectures: 4 per week Duration: 1h 50m Core/Elective: Core Open for student Open for all category: COURSE DESCRIPTION This course explores salient aspects of all security concerns pertaining to the South Asian region, with particular emphasis on the following topics: The partition of the sub-continent and its consequences. An overview of the Indian and Pakistani armies and the roles they play at home and abroad. Sources of Indo-Pakistani security competition, including the Kashmir dispute. The past and present dimensions of the Sino-Indian security competition. The emergence of Bangladesh from the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war and its implications for Pakistani identity formation and other aspects of regional security. New sources of Islamist militancy in India and Bangladesh. The various proximal and distal threats to international and regional security due to ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. The effects of nuclearization of the Indo-Pakistan security competition. The regional and global consequences of the rise of India as well as China. The Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger insurgency and its eventual defeat in The main insurgencies confronting modern India including, the Kashmir Insurgency, the Sikh Insurgency, the insurgencies in India s North East, and the various Naxalite movements. Broader geo-strategic interest in South Asia and their implications for the regional security situation COURSE METHODOLOGY 1

2 In addition to a lecture on the topics to be covered in the course, time will be set aside for in-class discussions during the class-room session. Students may also be shown short documentaries/videos of relevance to the topics being covered in class. COURSE READINGS For topic specific readings please refer to the class schedule below. All the required lecture readings will be provided in PDF format (i.e. uploaded via LMS) COURSE ASSESSMENT Course attendance - 10% of your grade One quiz (in-class 20 minutes quiz with 10 multiple choice questions) 20% of your grade One mid-term paper (1,500 words) - 30% of your grade Final take-home exam (4 short essay questions, 500 words each) 40% of your grade ASSESSMENT DATES In-class quiz on 13 th June Mid-term paper due on 30 th June Final take home exam due on 28 th July CLASS SCHEDULE AND CORRESPONDING READINGS Security issues in South Asia No. 1: Introductory lecture No. 2: Partition & Portents of Conflict Vali Nasr, National Identities and the India-Pakistan Conflict, in T.V. Paul, ed., The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005): pp Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012): pp No. 3: The Legacy of the Raj Imran, Ali, Malign Growth? Agricultural Colonization and the Roots of Backwardness in the Punjab, Past & Present, No. 114 (1987), pp No. 4: The Indian military Srinath Raghavan, Civil-Military Relations in India: The China Crisis and After, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2009): pp No. 5: The Pakistani military 2

3 Stephen P. Cohen, The Idea of Pakistan, pp No. 6: Kashmir Background and Wars: Enduring Rivalry? T.V. Paul, Causes of the India-Pakistan Enduring Rivalry, in T.V. Paul Ed. The India-Pakistan Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005): pp Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947, (New York: Columbia University Press); pp No. 7: Part 1: Sino-Indian Rivalry Mohan Malik, India and China: As China Rises, India Stirs, in Harsh V. Pant, ed. Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World (New Delhi: Routledge, 2009): pp No. 8: Part 2: Sino-Pakistan Relations Aparna Pande, Explaining Pakistan s Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 2011): pp ; , Shahid Amin. Pakistan s Foreign Policy: A Reappraisal (Karachi: OUP, 2000): pp No. 9: IN-CLASS QUIZ followed by in-class video based discussion (the video to be shown in class will be announced subsequently) No. 10: The 1971 War and the Creation of Bangladesh Sumit Ganguly, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947, pp Owen Bennet Jones, Eye of the Storm (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002): pp No. 11: Islamism, Islamist militancy in Bangladesh Ali Riaz, God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004): pp. 1-15, Bruce Vaughn, Islamist Extremism in Bangladesh, Congressional Research Service Report, January 31 (2007). No. 12: The Soviet Jihad and the Birth of the Taliban 3

4 Naematollah Nojumi, The Rise and Fall of the Taliban, in Crews and Tarzi Ed., The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008): pp No. 13: Afghanistan under the Taliban and After Rizwan Hussain, Pakistan and the Emergence of Islamic Militancy in Afghanistan (Burlington: Ashgate, 2005): pp Antonio Giustozzi. Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008): pp. 1-52; No. 14: Islamization of Pakistan and its Impacts Anatol Lieven, Pakistan: A hard country, (New York: Public Affairs, 2011): pp No. 15: Nuclearization of South Asia S. Paul Kapur, Ten years of instability in a nuclear South Asia, International Security, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall 2008): pp No. 16: India s Insurgencies the Sikh insurgency Sumit Ganguly, The Crisis of Indian Secularism, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2003): pp Pritam Singh and Navtej K. Purewal, The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab, Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 21, No. 2(2013): pp No. 17: Insurgency in Assam and the Naxalites M. Amarjeet Singh, Revisiting the Naga conflict: what can India do to resolve this conflict?, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 24, No. 5 (2013): pp Dipak K. Gupta. The Naxalites and the Maoist Movement in India: Birth, Demise, and Reincarnation, Democracy and Security, Vo.3, No.2 (2007): pp No. 18: Indian Grand Strategy and its Possibilities C. Raja Mohan, The Return of the Raj, The American Interest, K. Subrahmanyam, India s Grand Strategy, The Indian Express, February 3, ( 4

5 K. Subrahmanyam, India s Strategic Challenges, The Indian Express, February 4, ( No. 19: Nepal and its Maoist rebellion Basnett, Y., 2009, An analysis of the Maoist movement in Nepal, LSE Working Paper Series, London School of Economics, No. 20: The Sri Lankan Ethno-Nationalist Insurgency Goodhand, Jonathan. Sri Lanka in 2011: Consolidation and Militarization of the Post-War Regime, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1 (January/February 2012), pp Niel A. Smith, Understanding Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers, Joint Force Quarterly, vol. 4th Quarter, No. 59 (2010): pp No. 21: Pakistan and the Global War Against Terrorism (GWOT) C. Christine Fair and Seth G. Jones, Pakistan s War Within, Survival, Vol. 51, No. 5 (2009): pp Ayesha Siddiqa, Pakistan s Counterterrorism Strategy: Separating Friends from Enemies, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2011): pp No. 22: Marginalization and disparities in Pakistan Khan, A. and Rehman, H., 2012, Regional disparities in human capital: The case of Pakistan, Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. 50, No. 1: pp No. 23: Trouble in Baluchistan International Crisis Group (ICG), 2005, Baluchistan: The forgotten conflict in Baluchistan, Asia Report N 95, Islamabad: ICG No. 23: Pakistan s sectarian challenge International Crisis Group (ICG), 2005, The State of Sectarianism in Pakistan, Asia Report N 95, Islamabad: ICG No. 25: The military and the peasants in AMP Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (2006): The state as landlord in Pakistani Punjab: Peasant struggles on the Okara military farms, Journal of Peasant Studies, 33:3, No. 26: Disparity and discontent in Pakistan Peter Giampaoli and Safia Aggarwal, Land tenure and property rights in Pakistan: Failure to address LTPR 5

6 grievances may foster support for the Taliban, Property Rights and Resource Governance Briefing Paper, No. 4, USAID (2010): pp No. 27: Climate change and human security in South Asia Tariq Waseem Ghazi, A.N.M. Muniruzzaman, and A.K. Singh, Climate change and security in South Asia (The Hague: Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, 2016), pp No. 27: India, Pakistan and the water issue Michael Kugelman, Why the India-Pakistan war over water is so dangerous, Foreign Policy, 30 th September, 2016: pp No. 28: Wrap-up session Supplementary resources In addition, students will be encouraged to familiarize themselves with the politics, religious and ethnic diversity and other demographic features of South Asia throughout the course. One stop shopping for this can be had at the CIA World Factbook: Students should also take a look at major regional newspapers such as The Dawn in Pakistan ( The Hindustan Times in India ( Other relevant sources include the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center ( and at the Brookings Institute ( A FURTHER NOTE ON SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS REFERENCES AND CITATIONS FOR MID-TERM PAPERS Papers must be referenced, and accurate citations will be taken into account while grading your essays. When handing in written assignments, students are expected to use a standard citation style, preferably the Harvard Style ( PLEASE NOTE THAT UNLESS THERE ARE EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, NO EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED FOR MID-TERM PAPERS AND FINAL TAKE- HOME EXAMS. STUDENTS MUST ALSO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE PRESENT FOR THE IN-CLASS QUIZ. 6