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International Politics: A Vedanta Perspective

$1,500.00

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Course Code:

CPS7507

Credit Hours:

3

Course Level:

700

Area of Study:

Conflict and Peace Studies

Course Description

CPS7507 - (MA/DHS – Elective Course) How does a Vedanta perspective widen our understanding of the current predicaments, and help us explore solutions to them? While exploring solutions to international conflicts, the Vedanta perspective goes beyond surface dimensions of conflicts. For example, Vedanta philsopher Sri Aurobindo argued, like individuals, states have egos– amplified through national habits, prejudices, and idiosyncrasies. When applied to international politics, they lead to jingoism, exploitation, and wars, leading to practices like colonialism and imperialism. Colonialism and imperialism were only manifestations of an exploitative substructure. Though colonialism and imperialism belong to the past, the root, the ego, is intact, and its manifestation has acquired new shapes. The Vedanta perspective would also argue that state ego is not static, and it can evolve when state leaders think in terms of human unity and factor that thinking into policymaking. The establishment of the United Nations, after the failure of the League of Nations, was hailed a right step in this direction. The UN was established with a promise to ensure dignity and equality to all states. Has this happened? The course explores all these dimensions while mainstreaming the Vedanta perspective and aims to design a Vedanta approach to international politics.
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Program of Study

This course is part of the following programs:

Master of Arts in Hindu Studies (MA)

Doctor of Hindu Studies (DHS)

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Graduate Division, Advance Studies Division, Community Education Division

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Elective

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Quarter

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Dr. Debidatta. A. Mahapatra

Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra holds a doctoral degree from the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His areas of interest include conflict management and peacebuilding, South Asia, and Indian thought.
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debidatta.mahapatra@hua.edu

In this course, the students will be able to:

  • Design a Vedanta approach to the field of international politics.
  • Demonstrate a mastery of major international political theories and how they impact policy-making concerning Hindu society.
  • Generate Hindu methods to interrogate the dominant international politics theories.
  • Examine international conflicts through a Hindu dharmic lens.
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Course content

The course material will be provided by the instructor. The reading list given below is not exhaustive. The instructor may provide further readings and use audiovisuals to supplement the readings provided in the list.

Class Structure

There will be 3 contact hours with the faculty every week. The class is structured in a way that promotes discussion and debate based on self-study, research, and writing assignments each week. At the end of the course, students will be required to submit a short essay.

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