Emerging India: Security and Foreign Policy Perspectives

Publishers: IDSA and Promilla & Co.

ISBN: 81-86019-51-0

Rs 795

US $ 30

The Book

This volume contains the proceedings of a two-day seminar on ""Emerging India : Security and Foreign Policy Perspectives organised by the Institute for defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) as part of its 40th Anniversary celebrations on September 1-2, 2005 in New Delhi. This volume includes the Inaugural and Concluding Addresses by Admiral Arun Prakash, Chief of Naval Staff and Chairman COSC and Shri Vijay Nambiar, Deputy National Security Advisor.

The papers in this volume have been classified into seven major themes: The global and regional security environment, major powers; military strategy; India's relations with the major powers; energy security; terrorism; and non-proliferation concerns. The deliberations generated intensive debate on the efficacy of India's security and foreign policy formulations in addressing the security challenges in a dynamic environment.

This title has been publsished in association with The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

The Editors

N.S. SISODIA is Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, and a Member of the National Security Advisory Board. He holds an Honour's degree in History from the University of Delhi and a Master's degree in Public Policy and Management from Harvard University, where he was a Mason Fellow. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 and served as Additional Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat and Secretary to Government of India in the Ministries of Finance and Defence. He was a member of the Task Force constituted to recommend measures for Reforming the Management of Defence. He has also been Vice-Chancellor, University of Udaipur.

C. UDAY BHASKAR is Deputy Director, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSAS), New Delhi. He has contributed over 50 research articles/papers to professional journals and books published in INdia and abroad. His articles have appeared in US Naval Institute Proceedings, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and in books published by the US Naval War College and the Royal Navy Defence Studies, among others. He has worked on nuclear proliferation, India-US relations and maritime issues and is currently working on Comprehensive Security in the Post-Cold War period. Books edited by him include: United Nations Multilateralism and International Security, Indo-German Dialogue : Quest for International Peace and Security and a compilation of essays in honour of Shri K. Subrahmanyam.