Berikut disampaikan bahan Quiz II untuk mata kuliah Studi HI Asia Selatan dan Tengah:

1. Kuliah 3: Minoritas Muslim di Negeri Sekular

2. Kuliah 4: Geopolitik Asia Tengah

3. Kuliah 5: Pola-pola Kekerasan di India

Quiz Kedua akan diselenggarakan tanggal 8 April 2011. Beberapa hal berikut harap diperhatikan:

1. Mahasiswa diharapkan masuk kelas tepat waktu,

2. Quiz akan berlangsung 30 menit, mulai pukul 16.00 s/d 16.30,

3. Tidak ada tambahan waktu bagi mahasiswa yang terlambat,

4. Dosen tidak menyediakan lembar jawaban, mahasiswa diharap membawa kertas jawaban sendiri,

5. Quiz terdiri dari 3 (tiga) soal uraian dan mahasiswa harus menjawab sesuai materi kuliah dengan jawaban yang jelas, singkat dan padat.

Selain materi Quiz 2 diatas, bagi anda yang ingin memperdalam wacana tentang kuliah ke-2 dan ke-5 silakan download materi yang saya sajikan berikut:

1. Roda Pintal Konsep Perjuangan Gandhi

2. Kolonialisme, Tahap-tahap Kolonialisme dan Negara Kolonial

3. Communal Violence in India

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Berikut disampaikan bahan quiz I untuk mata kuliah HI Asia Selatan & Tengah:

1. Kuliah 1: Pendahuluan Studi Asia Selatan dan Tengah

2. Kuliah 2: Kolonialisme & Problem Kasta

Quiz Pertama akan dilangsungkan tanggal 17 Maret 2011. Beberapa hal berikut harap diperhatikan:

1. Mahasiswa diharapkan masuk kelas tepat waktu,

2. Quiz akan berlangsung 30 menit, mulai pukul 16.00 s/d 16.30,

3. Tidak ada tambahan waktu bagi mahasiswa yang terlambat,

4. Dosen tidak menyediakan lembar jawaban, mahasiswa diharap membawa kertas jawaban sendiri,

5. Quiz terdiri dari 2 (dua) soal uraian dan mahasiswa harus menjawab sesuai dengan materi kuliah.

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As taught in: second semester 2010

Level: Graduate (4^th semester)

Instructor: Muhammad Qobidl `Ainul Arif, S.IP, M.A.

Course Description:

One of the great accidents of history is the Partition of the subcontinent into the two states of India and Pakistan, and the onset of the cold war as a global struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The major focus of the course is on the interaction between regional conflicts, the most enduring symbolized by the unresolved dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, and the global strategies of rival great powers which sought to tip the balance of power in their favor by military and ideological influence over the “third world.” These conflicts were exacerbated by the Indian leadership’s commitment to an independent foreign policy of non-alignment, and its aspirations to leadership of newly independent states in Central Asia and Middle East, ranged against Pakistan’s inability to establish a viable state without external support. The resulting alignments and alliances drew the subcontinent into the center of cold war rivalries. Contemporary political shifting will be focused on the security environment after the cold war, the rise of India and China as competitors for influence; and problems posed by persisting mutual resentment and distrust in India and the United States, despite recognition on both sides of the need to cooperate and avoid China’s domination of Asia.

This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of politics in South and Central Asia. It aims at exploring issues of governance, security, conflict and cooperation in the region as a whole. International relations of states in the region will be analyzed primarily from the geopolitical and geostrategic point of view. Students will be encouraged to develop interpretive frameworks based on indigenous knowledge and perceptions. The subject is divided into four parts:

1. Context: historical and strategic perspectives, theoretical issues, sources and forms of conflict and cooperation;
2. Peripheral issues/ continuity: detailed analysis conflicts systems and their persistence, as well as regional competition and recent wars – focusing on specific countries and cases;
3. Intrusive system/ complexity: highlighting situation specific strategic gains and losses as well as the role of superpower in the region.
4. Convergence: focusing future configurations of conflict and cooperation in the region.

Course goal:

Give the comprehensive understanding and build critical thinking for students toward political and social situation in the South and Central Asia region. Students, therefore, are expected to pursue special research topics in greater depth for their final project (skripsi).

Syllabus

Course meeting times:

Lecture will be given one session per week with duration two hours per session.

Organization and contents:

Part I: Context

1. Introduction to the South and Central Asia Studies
2. Colonialism & The “Invention” of Caste; Battles of the Righteous
3. A Muslims Minority in a Secular State
4. Geostrategy of Central Asia states

Part II: Peripheral issues/ continuity

1. Pattern of Violence in India: Local Variations
2. Integration & the Decline of Civic Institutions; Ethnic Conflict, the State, & Civil Society
3. Partition & The Kashmir Wars
4. Terror as Tactic & Theatre: Sri Lanka and Nepal
5. Strategic Water Resources in Central Asia

Part III: Intrusive system/ complexity

1. The Nuclear Dimension
2. Regional Cooperation & Intergovernmental Organizations
3. India, China, and America
4. Russia and China’s Role in Central Asia

Part IV: Convergence

1. Opportunities and Challenges Ahead

Course Requirements

1. Minimum class attending 75% (11 times), students cannot pass this minimum requirement will get D score;
2. Quiz (15%);
3. Essay (15%);
4. Midterm examination (30%); and
5. Final Examination: Essay assignment (40%).

Course Books & Resources

Edward Luce, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, .

Ganguly, Sumit. (n.d.). Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947.

Mandelbaum, Michael. ed. (2004). Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press.

Olcott, Martha Brill. (1996). Central Asia’s New States: Independence, Foreign policy, and Regional security. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press.

Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. (2003). Modern South Asia. USA: Routledge.

Thakur,  Ramesh and Wiggen, Oddny. (n.d.). South Asia in the World: Problem-Solving Perspectives on Security, Sustainable Development, and Good Governance

Volovoj, Vadim. (n.d.). Problems and Fundamentals of Stability in Central Asia.

Varshney, Ashutosh. (n.d.). Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India.

Reading materials at http://obit.umm.ac.id.

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