Diplomatic Dimension of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century

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The ebbs and flows of Indian history can also be charted through the country’s “maritime blindness” – its onset and the national endeavour to overcome it. The story of developing India’s maritime capacity, since independence, is also about the kind of international and regional footprint it needs to have.

In this book, the author discusses India’s new and old maritime challenges and contextualises them in terms of its inherent institutional strengths to cope with their bewildering complexity. Their complexity is not just due to their sheer scale; the degrading institutional capacities, within countries and internationally, act as threat multipliers. The dynamics of global geopolitics, the seismic perturbations of global economy, and the dizzying pace of technology belie presuppositions for global future; all strategic analysts recognise our current, persisting conundrums.

Taking into account the country’s critical strategic weight in the maritime domain, the author suggests an approach – about the right ‘mix’ of the ‘traditional’ and the ‘non-traditional’ threats – in the institutional agendas of various governance mechanisms concerning different water bodies, especially the Indian Ocean Region, which also demands of India both hardware and software capacities, including diplomatic. He concludes that the effect of such an approach would be stabilising, consonant with the civilisational vision of the founders of the modern Indian nation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yogendra Kumar

Dr. Yogendra Kumar (b. 1956) is a senior teacher at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India in Botany Department. Dr. Yogendra Kumar has already written two books and 50 research papers on various aspects of Plant Taxonomy and Biodversity Conservation of North-East India. He is engaged in collection, survey and cultivation of Orchid Biodiversity of North-East since last 20 years. His main area of research interest in Taxonomy has been Plant Database, Orchids, Floristic & Taxonomiic accounts, Biodiversity status of Woldlife Sanctuaries, National Parks of North-East. He has supervised more than half a doze research students successfully for Ph.D. degree. He is member of many Professionals/Academic bodies. He is also member of Editorial Board of “VASUNDHAR”, an International Journal of Environmental Biology, BHU. He is referee for research papers on plant taxonomy for several journals.

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Title
Diplomatic Dimension of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9788182748538
Length
272p.,
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