Politics and Policy in South Asia

Harvard HKS

This course examines politics and policy in South Asia, a region encompassing a quarter of the world's population and countries as diverse as India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bhutan. South Asia simultaneously confronts vast and varied problems and huge opportunities. We will examine a number of pressing topics including democracy and political development; the management of ethnic diversity and conflict; jobless economic growth and industrial policy; the political economy…