Contributed chapters. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
India's national security : a neo-classical realist account / Sumit Ganguly -- India's national security : a liberal account / Ian Hall -- India's national security : a constructivist account / Siddharth Mallavarapu -- The colonial legacy and national security / Kaushik Roy -- India's wars / S. Paul Kapur -- India's conventional military strategy / Manjeet S. Pardesi -- India's defence industrial base : decay and reform / Richard A. Bitzinger -- India's nuclear trajectory : new directions amid enduring myths / Gaurav Kampani -- Civil-military relations / Steven I. Wilkinson -- Indian national security and Indian state capacity / William R. Thompson -- Insurgencies in India : origins and causes / Shivaji Mukherjee -- Counterinsurgency in India / Paul Staniland -- India's experience with terrorism / Rashmi Singh -- The role of intelligence in Indian security policy / Prem Mahadevan -- India's pursuit of economic security / Rani D. Mullen -- Environmental security in India / Sumona DasGupta -- Regional migration and Indian security / Kavita R. Khory -- Building resilience : India's cyber security, 2000-16 / Hannes Ebert -- Transnational organized crime / Rahul Mediratta -- Indian military modernization / Shashank Joshi -- India's strategic culture(s) / Nicolas Blarel -- India and United Nations peacekeeping / Geetanjali Chopra and David M. Malone -- India's space abitions and capabilities / Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan -- India's energy security : an assessment of India's international quest for energy sources / Isabelle Saint-Mézard -- The expansion of India's security sphere / David Brewster
Summary:
India faces an array of national security challenges. Externally, they range from geopolitical tensions and territorial disputes with China and Pakistan, nuclear deterrence, and state-sponsored/backed cross-border terrorism to the internal security issues related to secessionism, counter-insurgency, Naxalism, and ethnic conflict. In recent decades, the national security agenda has been expanded to include issues related to economics, environment, development, and transnational criminal activities. More than two decades of rapid economic growth has also added energy security to the national security matrix. Concomitant with its economic rise, India's national security agenda also includes a more proactive vision for the wider Asian region, including the Indian Ocean, with implications for power projection, and for India's contributions to global peacekeeping missions through the United Nations. This handbook is the first comprehensive analysis of all these national security challenges, traditional and non-traditional, facing India. With contributions from some of the leading and rising scholars from across the world, the essays cover a wide range of topics and issues including the colonial legacy, realist/liberal/constructivist approaches to national security, India's wars, strategic culture, conventional military challenges including issues of military modernization and defence-industrial challenges, nuclear security, the role of space, cybersecurity, terrorism, insurgencies, the role of the intelligence agencies, civil-military relations, and the relationship between national security and state-making in India.
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