By Pradeep N MORAL AND LEGAL RIGHTS Comprehensive Graduate Seminar Notes | Contemporary Debates in Political Theory Course Level Theme Primary Texts Contemporary Political Theory Graduate / Ph.D. Core Jurisprudence & Normative Theory H.L.A. Hart (1961); R. Dworkin (1977); J. Bentham; J. Locke 1. Introduction: The Ontological Divide A central preoccupation of contemporary political and…

By Pradeep N DEBATES ON RIGHTS Comprehensive Graduate Seminar Notes | Contemporary Debates in Political Theory Course Level Theme Primary Texts Contemporary Political Theory Graduate / Ph.D. Core Normative Frameworks & Legal Theory R. Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (1977); W. N. Hohfeld (1919); J. Raz, The Morality of Freedom (1986); H. Shue, Basic Rights (1980)…

By Pradeep N Welcome to the study of International Relations (IR)! As a first-time learner, the easiest way to approach IR is to think of it as the study of how the world works as an interconnected system and how countries interact, why they cooperate or go to war, and how global decisions affect everyday…

By Pradeep N Course Level Theme Primary Texts Contemporary Political Theory Graduate / Ph.D. Core Institutional Cosmopolitanism & Negative Duties of Justice World Poverty and Human Rights (2002/2008); Realizing Rawls (1989); Politics as Usual (2010) 1. Introduction: From Domestic to Global Justice & The Challenge to Rawls The emergence of Global Justice as a distinct…

Dr. Pradeep N Comprehensive Graduate Seminar Notes | Contemporary Debates in Political Theory Course Level Theme Primary Texts Contemporary Political Theory Graduate / Ph.D. Core Critiques of Liberal Individualism: Relationality, Tradition, & Power M. Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982); M. Walzer, Spheres of Justice (1983); S. M. Okin, Justice, Gender, and the…

By Dr. Pradeep N Course Level Theme Primary Texts Contemporary Political Theory Graduate / Ph.D. Core Liberal Egalitarianism & Contractarianism A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001) Download Kannada Practice Points here. 1. Introduction: The Contractarian Revival and the Basic Structure The publication of John Rawls’s A Theory…

By Dr. Pradeep N Comprehensive Graduate Seminar Notes | Contemporary Debates in Political Theory Course Level Theme Revised Contemporary Political Theory Graduate / Ph.D. Core Normative & Critical Justice August 2026 Following video available only in Kannada language. 1. Introduction: The Contested Landscape of Justice In contemporary political theory, justice is widely regarded—in the famous…

By Pradeep N 1. Introduction The African Union (AU) is a continental body of 55 member states established in 2002 (succeeding the Organisation of African Unity, founded 1963), headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It pursues continental integration, peace and security, and socio-economic development through its long-term blueprint, Agenda 2063: ‘The Africa We Want’. India’s engagement…

By Pradeep N 1. Introduction Postmodernism (also called post-structuralism) is one of the most radical of the “critical” approaches to International Relations (IR). Emerging within the discipline in the 1980s, it challenges the very foundations on which mainstream theories such as realism and liberalism are built. Where these traditional theories assume that the world can…

By Pradeep N 1. Introduction India is one of nine states in the world that possess nuclear weapons, and one of only four nuclear-armed states that have never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Its nuclear journey is distinctive: it combines a self-image as a long-standing champion of global disarmament with a determination to retain…