Course Description: The course will comprise Monday lectures on issues of domestic and foreign policy of South Asia and will provide a framework for assessing public policy challenges. It views India, Pakistan and Afghanistan from various perspectives, including history, politics, economics, social services, business enterprise, and national security. Content related to China is presented in terms of policy processes, governance, and comparative development models. Required reading prior to the first class is A History of India Volume II Percival Spear, Penguin Books Reprinted 1990. (That edition contains some updated material, however earlier editions are satisfactory). Guest lecturers include Azeem Ibrahim, a scholar, entrepreneur, and Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Research Director at the European Centre for Advanced Defence and Strategic Studies in Geneva; Steve Hollingworth, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Global Operations for CARE; and William J. McGrath, a Partner in the Chicago law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery who established and managed the firms Shanghai office. BOOK LIST A History of India Volume II Percival Spear, Penguin Books Reprinted 1990 (that edition contains some updated material, however earlier editions are satisfactory); What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, John L. Esposito, Oxford University Press, 2002; The Hindus: An Alternative History, Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago), Penguin Press, 2009; India Unbound, Gurcharan Das, Anchor Books, Division of Random House, Inc.200 Thunder Out of China, Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby, Da Capo Press, Inc. reprint of edition of W. Sloane Associates, 1946.
