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The volume presents various perspectives on India’s role in the context of Asian security. It takes up issues like major power rivalries, tensions over disputed territories, freedom of Sea Lanes of Communications, security dilemmas connected to military modernisation, robustness of regional institutional mechanisms, and India’s strategic partnerships and the ‘big power’ status it hopes to have. It also examines perspectives of major actors ...
China's territorial claim on Arunachal Pradesh is a major bone of contention between India and China. The issue has eluded resolution despite mechanisms of border talks between both countires. Recently, china raised its stakes on the issue by showcasing Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory in a map printed in its new microchip-equipped passports. This Occasional paper analyzes the Chinese territorial Claim from a futuristic perspective by identifying three ...
Terrorism, left-wing extremism and insurgencies in the Northeast were identified as the three major security challenges facing India by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the Chief Ministers’ Conclaves on Internal Security in 2009 and 2010. This Occasional Paper focuses on the third of these concerns, i.e. insurgencies in the Northeast. Based on extensive fieldwork in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland, the author zeroes in on the driving forces that will ...
Future belongs to Asia. Already a major transition of wealth and power from the West to the East is being witnessed as never before. Asia could withstand the economic Tsunami which engulfed most of the developed world in 2008. Asian powers like China and India are being envisaged as the drivers of the future global economy. On the other hand, Asia is also facing major security challenges. How Asian states continue with the present pace of their economic growth ...
India's North East presents a bewildering picture to the policy makers, outsiders as well as to the local population. On the one hand, the natural beauty and rich cultural mix offer a touristic paradise. On the other, innumerable insurgent movements raging in the region deter people from exploring and investing in this region. However, the tried narrative of exclusivist ethnic homelands propagated by the insurgents appears out of sync with reality in an era of ...