The Oxford Handbook of India's National Security

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.

List of contents

• List of Contributors
  


• Introduction


• Sumit Ganguly, Manjeet Pardesi, and Nicolas Blarel
  


• 1. India's National Security: A Neo-classical Realist Account
  Sumit Ganguly


• India's National Security: A Liberal Account
  Ian Hall


• 2. India's National Security: A Constructivist Account
  Siddharth Mallavarapu


• 3. The Colonial Legacy and National Security
  Kaushik Roy


• 4. India's Wars
  S. Paul Kapur


• 5. India's Conventional Military Strategy
  Manjeet S. Pardesi


• 6. India's Defence Industrial Base: Decay and Reform
  Richard A. Bitzinger


• 7. India's Nuclear Trajectory: New Directions Amid Enduring Myths
  Gaurav Kampani


• 8. Civil-Military Relations
  Steven I. Wilkinson


• 9. Indian National Security and Indian State Capacity
  William R. Thompson


• 10. Insurgencies in India: Origins and Causes
  Shivaji Mukherjee


• 11. Counterinsurgency in India
  Paul Staniland


• 12. India's Experience with Terrorism
  Rashmi Singh


• 13. The Role of Intelligence in Indian Security Policy
  Prem Mahadevan


• 14. India's Pursuit of Economic Security
  Rani D. Mullen


• 15. Environmental Security in India
  Sumona DasGupta


• 16. Regional Migration and Indian Security
  Kavita R. Khory


• 17. Building Resilience: India's Cyber Security, 2000-16
  Hannes Ebert


• 18. Transnational Organized Crime
  Rahul Mediratta


• 19. Indian Military Modernization
  Shashank Joshi


• 20. India's Strategic Culture(s)
  Nicolas Blarel


• 21. India and United Nations Peacekeeping
  Geetanjali Chopra and David M. Malone


• 22. India's Space Ambitions and Capabilities
  Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan


• 23. India's Energy Security: An Assessment of India's International Quest for Energy Sources
  Isabelle Saint-Mézard


• 24. The Expansion of India's Security Sphere
  David Brewster
  


• Index

About the author

Sumit Ganguly, Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Manjeet Pardesi, Senior lecturer in International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, Nicolas Blarel, Assistant professor of International Relations, Leiden University

Sumit Ganguly is Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Manjeet Pardesi is senior lecturer in International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington.

Nicolas Blarel is assistant professor of International Relations at Leiden University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sumit (EDT)/ Pardesi Ganguly
• Assisted by: Nicolas Blarel (Editor), Nicolas (Assistant professor of International Relations Blarel (Editor), Sumit Ganguly (Editor), Sumit (Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and Professor of Political Science Ganguly (Editor), Manjeet Pardesi (Editor), Manjeet (Senior lecturer in International Relations Pardesi (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2018
• EAN: 9780199480135
• ISBN: 978-0-19-948013-5
• No. of pages: 588
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education