RESEARCH CLUSTER
Non Military Threats, Energy & Economic Security
The cluster focuses on security challenges that are not considered mainstream. The methods and tools employed to address non-traditional security challenges are evolving. It includes within its fold unconventional thinking and it challenges orthodox understandings. The 21st century presents new paradigms to security. Politico-military threats have been joined by security issues relating to energy, water, food, environment, and climate change. Accordingly, the focus areas of the cluster have been energy, water, environment and climate change.
Projects Recently Concluded
In 2008, a working group presented its report in a national workshop on security implications of climate change for India. Experts presented papers on renewable energy, climate change and foreign policy, and the role of the military in environment.
Current Projects
A Task Force on water security has been formed to revisit all internal and external facets related to water. As a continuation of the national workshop on climate change, a preparatory meting has been planned before the Copenhagen Summit of December 2009. Experts are also focused on WTO, energy, and climate change and the geopolitics of climate change.
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The Iran–Pakistan–India Natural Gas Pipeline: Implications and Challenges for Regional Security
January 2010
This research article examines the rationale for Iran, Pakistan, and India entering into a trade agreement to meet their economic, political, and strategic needs as well as the constraints and challen Global Warming, Environmentalism and Related Issues: The Other View
February 11, 2010
The sloppy work of the IPCC in noting that Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 has raised many questions, with even the credibility of scientific opinion coming under doubt. Rising China at Copenhagen
January 5, 2010
Given the divergence of views in the industrialized and industrializing countries as was demonstrated at Copenhagen, it is too early to expect any comprehensive result from the Copenhagen Accord. One needs to wait till June 2010 if the UN meeting at Bonn will yield a different outcome. Copenhagen Accord has initiated a drift in climate change negotiations
January 4, 2010
The Copenhagen Accord is weak and a step back from the Bali Action Plan which talked about four pillars of negotiations – mitigation, adaptation, financial support and technology transfer. Internet at the Crossroads
December 31, 2009
The Internet’s blurred boundaries and its existing vulnerabilities have led to unhealthy trends, which, if not addressed adequately, could pose severe problems. Is Energy Security the Main Driver for the West's Debate on Climate Change?
November 2009
Though global warming and climate change is a real concern and needs to be addressed, it is concerns over energy security that are driving the West's policy and debate on climate change. The beginning of the end of the dollar era?
October 14, 2009
The ramifications of an end to dollar-based oil trade would extend far beyond the oil market and would herald the beginning of a new international political order.  |
