The predominance of the realist paradigm of national security used to pontificate the Post Second World War view, dimension and design of international security declines with environmental catastrophe. Imperiously state centric and premised on enhanced state secrecy, nuclear and military power it was understood in terms of spatial strategies of distancing and boundary making as the key to the protection of geographically demarcated political community known as state. Delineated in realist idioms it has produced in the nuclear age the persistent possibility of nuclear winter not to mention environmental degradation on a global scale. The mounting environmental degradation coupled with its devastating consequences looms large occupying peremptorily the centre-stage of national security agenda making the realist analysis outworn and too inadequate to face these environmental posed non-military threats. Thus, the juxtaposition of security and environment comes at a time when the people feel it is no longer safe to remain impervious to these concerns with which the conventional outlook of national security has been grossly incongruent. The present book is an unconventional attempt at unearthing that underneath the simmering cauldron of violence and insurgencies in Indian states lie imperatively the environmental causes or factors inducing migration from Bangladesh which the policy makers are enjoined upon to reformulate what they have so far considered as national security prioritized on realist paradigm.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Narottam Gaan
Narottam, Gaan, Ph.D. and D.Litt. has been teaching in political science in different colleges since 1978. Not being lured by the lucre of Allied Services (ICS) in 1983 he left the job to stay in the academic life. Publication of innumerable articles and papers in various journals in India and abroad, and five books including this stands as a testament to his scholarship and deep acquaintance with a wide ranging subjects. Privileged to visit Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia on an Austrian government scholarship, he attended many conferences and programmes abroad and awarded a Certificate of Achievement in International Studies from European University Centre for Peace Studies Stadtschlaining, Austria. His presnet post doctoral work on environment, security, development, peace and economic rethinking and various aspects of International Relation entities him to be one of the few celebrated scholars working in India. His next work, Environmental Issues and Challenges: A Critique on International Relation Theories, another feather in his cap of achievement, is demonstrative of his unceasing efforts and unflinching determination to scale the intellectual and academic heights. His new and unconventional ideas on a vast array of subjects ranging from national and international politics to humanity, environment, human rights, security, and development and getting coverage in the daily news papers and journals to the utmost appreciation of both the readers and the layman, show his deep sense of commitment to the subject and concerns with the critical problems plaguing the humanity at present and his being opened up to the inward traffic from other disciplines.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sudhansubala Das
Sudhansubala Das, M.Phil and Ph.D. is at present working as Senior Lecturer in Political Science in P.P. Dev. Mahavidyalaya, Tigiria, Cuttack. To her credit she has got published a number of articles in variuos journals like India Quarterly. She is a reputed Poetess in Oriya, and regular publication of many featured articles in Oriya magazines and newspapers on various burning issues and problems concerning women has eaerned her high encomium and appreciation from all sections of the society.
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