Die Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung veröffentlichte am 19. September 2018 ein Interview mit Prof. Dr. Rahul Mukherji mit dem Titel „Unmögliche Friedensmission aus dem Exil? Wie der China-Tibet-Konflikt das Leben des Dalai Lama prägt“. Der Artikel porträtiert das Leben des Dalai Lama, geht auf seine Rolle im China-Tibet-Konflikt ein und gibt einen Ausblick auf die zukünftige politische Entwicklung. Den Artikel können sie hier online lesen.

Eine neue Ausgabe der Serie South Asia Institute Papers (SAIP) wurde veröffentlicht. Die Veröffentlichung enthält Prof. Dr. Rahul Mukherjis Vortrag mit dem Titel „Governing India: What do we know and need to know?“, welchen er in seiner Antrittsvorlesung in der Alten Aula der Universität Heidelberg am 15. November 2017 hielt. Das PDF ist hier verfügbar.

Die Abteilung für Politische Wissenschaft des SAI begrüßt herzlich Dr. Ali Zulfiqar als DAAD- Gastprofessor. Er ist Mitglied der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Karachi in Pakistan und wird sich bis Dezember 2018 am SAI aufhalten, um seine Forschungen in den Bereichen Postmodernismus, Postkolonialismus, Pakistans politisches System und Korruption zu vertiefen.

Bei Routledge ist kürzlich das Buch „Governance and Development in India -  A Comparative Study on Andhra Pradesh and Bihar after Liberalization“ von Dr. Seyed Hossein Zarhani (Abteilung Politische Wissenschaft, SAI) erschienen. Das Buch wurde in der Serie „Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies“ herausgegeben. Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie hier.

Beschreibung des Buchs (auf Englisch):

The study of the political economy of development in India is significant as India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries during the last three decades and the rate of economic growth and poverty reduction have not been matched in India’s subnational states. Although the Union Government has introduced and implemented several economic reforms since 1991 to enhance the economic development, the results of implantation have varied.

Governance and Development in India compares two Indian subnational states, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. The book does not consider the state as an aggregate entity; rather, it disaggregates the state relationally and spatially. Concentrating on the micro-institutional variables and the role of regional elites, the author investigates the political roots of the divergence of development trajectories among India’s subnational states since liberalization, as an essential aspect of the political economy of development in India. The book explores the black box of the multi-layered state of India and interactions among the Central Government, the states, regional leaders and other stakeholders and explains why the regional leaders have pursued divergent economic strategies using the analytical narrative research method and the subnational comparative research method.

Firmly based on the theoretical foundations of the neo-institutional rational choice model of governance, polycentric hierarchy theory and the strategies for regional elite strategy analysis, combined with empirical research, this book is a valuable contribution to the fields of comparative political economy, state politics in India, governance and development in developing countries, and South Asian comparative politics.

Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

South Asia, with its burgeoning, ethnically diverse population, soaring economies, and nuclear weapons, is an increasingly important region in the global context. The series, which builds on this complex, dynamic and volatile area, features innovative and original research on the region as a whole or on the countries. Its scope extends to scholarly works drawing on history, politics, development studies, sociology and economics of individual countries from the region as well those that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the area as a whole or to a comparison of two or more countries from this region. In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the insights germane to area studies, as well as the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods. The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations.