Sino-Indian Issues - Asian Security, 6 ECTS

Organizer: Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tampere and Department of Political Science, University of Turku

Teacher: Eero Palmujoki, University of Tampere and Juha Vuori University of Turku

Goals: The aim of the course is to provide theoretical and conceptual tools for analyzing the prevalent issues in Asia, focusing on the perceived problems on the Sino - Indian axis.

Contents: The course combines the lenses of Sino-Indian relations and various theoretical approaches to security for viewing the contemporary structure of security issues in the Asian context. Security is understood here as encompassing a variety of topics including economic, trade, environmental, societal and military sectors.

Target group: The students of the Network member universities are eligible to apply. The course is recommended for advanced level (MA) students.

Note that only the students of the member universities can take this course for free. The study fee for students from other Finnish universities is 50 euro per credit.

Taken as: The course consists of 15 hours of online lectures including the approaches to security (Juha Vuori), to geopolitical issues (Sanjay Chaturvedi), and to subject matters on the security on the Sino-Indian axis (Jing-Dong Yuan), supervised readings, lecture diary and essay.

Grading: on a scale of 1-5

Date & Venue: 9.1. - 20.4.2012; Virtual course in Moodle

Application: A maximum of 40 students will be accepted to the course.

Application period is closed.

Credit transfers: The Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku will apply a study right to University of Turku for the students on their behalf.

After finishing the course the students will be sent a transcript of their records from Turku. The students need to take the transcript to their own university and make sure that the credits are transferred to their own university. This will not happen automatically.

Before coming to the course the students should check with their own home department that this course can be accepted as part of their degree in their own university.