Facets of Indias Security
This volume brings together established and emerging scholars from academia and think tanks to reflect on important conceptual, strategic and developmental issues in Indias national security. It provides a comprehensive understanding of national security through a more open approach, covering both traditional and non-traditional concerns that have a bearing on the survival and well-being of humanity. It discusses key themes such as perceptions about China, civilmilitary relations, gender and military, nuclear safety, arms trade and cybersecurity, human security, food and water security, soft power and the medias role in covering security issues. As a festschrift for Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar, it highlights and adds to his scholarly contributions to the national security debate in the country for the past three decades.
A unique contribution, this volume will be indispensable for students and researchers of politics and international relations, national security, human security, geopolitics, non-traditional security, military and strategic studies, and South Asian studies.
P.R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of contemporary Middle East in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. From 1992 to 1999 he was a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Jerusalem. Since joining JNU in September 1999, he has been researching, teaching and writing on various aspects of the contemporary Middle East. His works include Squaring the Circle: Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home (2018), Indias Israel Policy (2010), and Historical Dictionary of the Arab Israeli Conflict (2015, second edition). In October 2009, he set up the virtual Middle East Institute, New Delhi, and serves as its honorary director. He is the editor of Contemporary Review of the Middle East and the series editor of Persian Gulf: Indias Relations with the Region.
Facets of Indias Security
Essays for C. Uday Bhaskar
Edited by P.R. Kumaraswamy
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Contents
C. Raja Mohan
Rajesh Rajagopalan
Atul Mishra
S. Kalyanaraman
Dipanwita Chakravortty
Md. Muddassir Quamar
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Manpreet Sethi
Alvite Singh Ningthoujam
Rohit Sharma
Jayati Srivastava
Sameena Hameed
Parnika Praleya
Girijesh Pant
Sima Baidya
Rajendra M. Abhyankar
Manjari Singh
Yatharth Kachiar
Martand Jha
Ira Bhaskar
Swara Bhaskar
Ishan Bhaskar and Bhoomika Joshi
Compiled by Minakshi Sardar
Rajendra M. Abhyankar is Chairman, Kunzru Centre for Defence Studies and Research, Pune, India. Until December 2019 he was Professor of Practice, ONeill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States. During 20052008, he was Professor and Director, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He retired after 37 years in the Indian Foreign Service having served as Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, and as Indias Ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg, Turkey, Syria, Azerbaijan and High Commissioner to Cyprus, Deputy High Commissioner in Sri Lanka and Consul General of India, San Francisco. Since retirement, he has written three books on Indian foreign policy and edited three others. He has also written a novel The Crossing (2013) set in Sri Lanka. His latest book is Syria: The Tragedy of a Pivotal State (forthcoming).
Sima Baidya is Assistant Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, India. She is a concurrent faculty at the Energy Studies Programme at JNU. She is the author of Dissent intheLand of Arab (2007) and Post-Revolutionary Irans StateBehaviour towards India, Pakistan and China (2019). She is former joint secretary of Indian Social Science Academy and currently managing editor of its journal. She is a life member of the Indian Social Science Academy and Council for Political Studies. She writes on Iran, energy, Persian Gulf politics, non-traditional security, foreign policy, civil society, etc.
Swara Bhaskar is an award-winning Bollywood actress, a social media influencer and an occasional social commentator.
Ira Bhaskar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, India. She has co-authored Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009) and her publications have appeared in Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures (2018); Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (2013); Film Melodrama Revisited (2013); and Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas (2012), among others. She is currently working on her book on trauma and memory in Indian cinemas.
Ishan Bhaskar is an entrepreneur with interests in natural resources, media and entertainment industries.
Dipanwita Chakravortty is Assistant Professor (political science) in Galgotias University, Uttar Pradesh, India. She got her doctorate from the School of International Studies, JNU, and her doctoral thesis was on Gender Debates in the Israel Defence Forces. She was the recipient of the Israel Government Scholarship 20152016 under which she was a visiting fellow in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Further, she worked as a research associate at the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. She has presented several papers on the role of women in militaries in different international seminars and published several chapters and articles on issues related to conflicts in the Middle East.
Sameena Hameed is Assistant Professor in West Asian Studies in JNU, India. Her areas of specialisation include the Middle Eastern economy, Indias economic relations with the Middle East and energy security issues. She co-authored
