Varying Dimensions of India's National Security - Emerging Perspectives

This book engages a comprehensive approach to understand both traditional and non-traditional security issues in addressing dimensions of India's national security. The issues highlighted in the book through fourteen distinct, yet inter-related, chapters offer insightful reading to India's national security. This edited book explores the criticalities of various security issues in India, internal and external, and digs deep into the government responses to each of these issues. Stepping away from merely focusing on the state-centric understanding of national security, this book also includes human security perspectives. In this process, this book also offers set of policy recommendations which could be used for effectively dealing with the national security challenges. The themes covered in this edited book range from offering a conceptual framework of national security to issues such as energy security, maritime security, nuclear security, internal security, neighborhood policy, dumping, terrorism, economic security, cyber security, role of media, defense preparedness, and use of GIS in security domain. This book highlights some of the important security issues around the larger perspective of India's national security. This book will be highly useful for the students and scholars of security and strategic studies and international relations and also to the policymakers in the region.


Anshuman Behera is Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peace Research Programme at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru. Prior to joining NIAS, Dr. Behera worked in Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi. Dr. Behera earned his Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad. He is Co-Editor of 'Reasoning Indian Politics: Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy', Routledge, 2018, and Co-Author of 'Militant Groups in South Asia', IDSA, 2014. Dr. Behera's research areas include socio-political conflicts, political violence, political theory, and South Asian Politics. His academic writings have featured in both international and national journals. Apart from his extensive writing on Maoist conflict and religious fundamentalism and terrorism in India, he also writes on political process and change in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
 
Sitakanta Mishra is Associate Professor at School of Liberal Studies (SLS) of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU), Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India). Previously, Dr Mishra was Research Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi. He was also Visiting Research Scholar at Cooperative Monitoring Centre, USA. He has authored three books, two monographs, many chapters, and research papers related to India's neighborhood policy, Indo-Pak relations, India's foreign policy, and nuclear policy and security.